Glossary T

Glossary T

Transduction refers to the transformation of environmental energy into electrical energy in senses study. For example, the retinal receptors transduce light energy into electrical energy.

Transductive reasoning refers to the errors in understanding cause-and-effect relationships that are commonly made by preoperational children.
Transductive reasoning describes also the reasoning from one particular fact or case to another similar fact or case. It is reasoning from the specific to the specific. In Deductive reasoning, one reasons from the general to the specific and in Inductive reasoning, one reasons from the specific to the general.

Transfer refers to any carryover of knowledge or skills from one problem situation to another.

Transfer appropriate processing is the principle that whether encoding activities promote memory will depend on the type of test used to assess memory performance

Deutsch: Lerntransfer / Español: Transferencia del Aprendizaje / Português: Transferência de Aprendizagem / Français: Transfert d'Apprentissage / Italian: Trasferimento di Apprendimento

Transfer of learning in the psychology context refers to the application of knowledge, skills, or attitudes that one has acquired in one situation to a different situation. This concept is crucial for understanding how learning in one context influences performance in another context.

Transference refers to the displacement of emotions from one person to another during the treatment, as when feelings for a parent are transferred to the analyst or feelings about siblings are transferred to fellow group members; the process by which a patient responds to the therapist as if the therapist were a relevant person in the patient's life.

Transferrin refers to plasma protein that binds iron and is representative of the whole body iron store.

Transformation refer to the stages of Jungian psychoanalytic therapy: