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41Noticing hypothesis — Main article: Second language acquisition The noticing hypothesis was proposed by Richard Schmidt in 1990. He stated that features of language cannot be learned unless they have been noticed[1]. Noticing alone does not mean it is automatically… …
42Knowledge gap hypothesis — The knowledge gap hypothesis theory suggests that each new medium increases the gap between the information rich and information poor, because of differences in access to the medium, and control over its use, among other factors.It was first… …
43Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis — The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis is an ecological hypothesis which proposes that biodiversity is highest when disturbance is neither too rare nor too frequent. With low disturbance, competitive exclusion by the dominant species arises.… …
44Porter hypothesis — According to the Porter Hypothesis strict environmental regulations can induce efficiency and encourage innovations that help improve commercial competitiveness. The hypothesis was formulated by the economist Michael Porter.According to this… …
45Hemo-Neural Hypothesis — The Hemo Neural hypothesis states that blood flow to cerebral areas is inextricably linked to neural activity. Unlike current dogma that interprets blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signals of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as… …
46Differential signaling hypothesis — The differential signaling hypothesis is one of two models that attempt to explain how humans have immunity despite such aggressive selection (positive and negative) to kill developing T cells during their maturation process. The other model is… …
47age-area hypothesis — ▪ anthropology in anthropology, theory holding that the age of culture traits (elements of a culture) may be determined by examining their distribution over a large geographic area. The hypothesis states that widely distributed traits are… …
48Perceptual noise exclusion hypothesis — The concept of a perceptual noise exclusion deficit is an emerging hypothesis as to the origins and nature of dyslexia. It is supported by research showing that dyslexic adults and children experience difficulty in targeting visual information in …
49Drunken monkey hypothesis — The drunken monkey hypothesis proposes that human attraction to ethanol may have a genetic basis due to the high dependence of the primate ancestor of Homo sapiens to fruit as a food source. Ethanol naturally occurs in ripe and overripe fruit and …
50Statistical hypothesis testing — This article is about frequentist hypothesis testing which is taught in introductory statistics. For Bayesian hypothesis testing, see Bayesian inference. A statistical hypothesis test is a method of making decisions using data, whether from a… …
