Concept maps help organize knowledge needed to answer focus questions. Organized knowledge includes concepts connected by linking words to form propositions, and is structured hierarchically. Concept maps represent relationships between concepts and aid in effective teaching and learning.

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2. Concept mapsConcept maps help to answer focus questions.Concept maps represent organized knowledge.Focus questions are context dependent.Organized knowledge needed to answer focus question.Organized knowledge is context dependent.Organized knowledge includesassociated feelings of affect.Associated feelings of affect add to concepts.Organized knowledge is comprised of concepts, and propositions.Conceptsconnected by linking words to form propositions.Organized knowledge necessary foreffective teaching andeffective learning. Context dependent areperceived regularities or patterns.Context dependent e.g. socialandpersonal.Conceptsareperceived regularities or patterns.

3. Concept mapsConceptsandpropositionsarehierarchically structured.Conceptsarelabeledwithsymbolsandwords.Propositionsareunits of meaning constructer in cognitive structures.Propositionsmaybecrosslink's.Crosslink’sshow interrelationship between different map segments. Perceived regularities of patterns inevents (happening) andobject (things)Perceived regularities of patterns begin with infants.Hierarchically structure aids creativity. Hierarchically structure especially with experts.Hierarchically structure in cognitive structure. Creativitybegin with infants.Creativityneeded to see interrelationship.

4. TermsConcepts: A concept is a cognitive unit of meaning an abstract idea or a mental symbol sometimes defined as a "unit of knowledge," built from other units which act as a concept's characteristics.Linking words: Linking words are used to link ideas when writing. They enable the writing to flow from one idea to the next in a logical and cohesive way.Proposition: A proposition is a sentence expressing something true or false.Crosslink's: Crosslink's are bonds that link one polymer chain to another.Creativity: Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight.Experts: An expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain. Symbols: A symbol is something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention.Infants: Advice and resources to help you care for your young infant, including feeding and sleep routines, starting solids, developmental milestones, safety issues and dealing with common problems, like reflux, diaper rashes, constipation and ear infections.Interrelationship: A logical or natural association between two or more things: connection, correlation, interconnection, interdependence, link, linkage, relation, relationship, tie-in.

5. ConceptsFocus questions: A focus question is a question you need to answer. Organized knowledge: