obliterative subsumption
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editNoun
editobliterative subsumption (uncountable)
- The subsumption of new knowledge that causes older knowledge to be forgotten but leaves the mental framework for both the old and new knowledge to be enhanced.
- 2001, Grahame Hill, A Level Psychology Through Diagrams, page 241:
- Forgetting occurs, according to Ausubel, where there is zero dissociability (or obliterative subsumption ) because new learning cannot be distinguished from the old .
- 2010, Joseph Donald Novak, Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge, page 66:
- When you consider the fact that at least tens of thousands of neurons are involved in subsumption of a new concept, there are almost unlimited neurological possibilities for varying degrees of subsumption or obliterative subsumption in the course of meaningful learning and later when knowledge is retrieved.
- 2022, Joseph D. Novak, Helping People Learn:
- There is a difference between obliterative subsumption that may occur after meaningful learning and forgetting that occurs after rote learning.