|
| Chapter 5 | |
| Accommodation | Accommodation occurs when, through thinking, we create new mental files or modify old ones to contain new experiences. |
| Assimilation | Assimilation is to succeed easily in filing new experiences into existing mental categories. |
| Assumption Layers | Assumption layers can appear beneath simple assertions. Such layers consist of multiple hidden and unexamined assumptions influenced in turn by one or more value assumptions beneath the whole. |
| Disequilibrium | The confusion and discomfort felt when a new experience cannot be aligned with previous experience or filed into existing mental categories. |
| Exposition essay | An essay designed primarily to explain something. Here facts are more important than opinions. |
| Hidden Assumption | A hidden assumption is an unclear and unstated idea assumed to be true that is integral to a line of reasoning. In an argument, it is a hidden premise that cannot be easily examined for truth and validity. Blind acceptance of a hidden premise can lead to the acceptance of a false or invalid conclusion. |
| Incongruity | Something that seems out of place or inappropriate. |
| Thesis | A thesis is a short summary statement of an idea that an essay intends to prove. It is also called the thesis statement and controlling idea.n |
| Value or Belief Assumption | Value assumption is a belief that we take for granted, one that rarely questioned or even articulated. Remaining hidden and unexpressed, a value assumption can nevertheless shape a chain of reasoning. |
| Working Assumption | A working assumption is a trial idea, theory, strategy, or hypothesis assumed to be true in order to further an investigation. It is a conscious assumption
|
No comments:
Post a Comment