Concepts To Learn: Further Course Details: ETHN/PHYS 120 - Astronomy of Native America Syllabus

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Concepts are how we hold knowledge in our minds. A concept brings together different situations we have experienced by saying what the feature common to those situations is in contrast with other situations that lack that feature (say, apples: they have a common range of looks and tastes and come from a certain type of tree compared to other foods we experience or things that are not foods). We also relate concepts to one another, grouping concepts (like apples and oranges and others in fruit because they come from the flower of plants, and further grouping fruit and vegetables and others in food because we can eat them for nutrition and pleasure).

The category to which several concepts belong is called the concept’s genus. The factors that differentiate the concept from others in its category are called the differentia of the concept. A brief statement of a concept's genus and differentia is its definition.

Once you learn a concept, you can bring to mind the word assigned to that concept and are able to give a definition of that concept (including its genus and differentia) as well as come up with many examples of the concept. Some concepts we learn are adjectives describing situations.

Concept learning checklist

Examples
Definition

Concepts to learn for this course:

Horizon
Zenith/nadir
East/west
North/south
Sun arc (or, day arc, or, sun path)
Culmination
Solstice
Equinox
Tropical
Analemma
Phase (moon)
Gibbous
Synodic
Node
Draconic
Eclipse
Lunar standstill
Asterism
Constellation
Celestial pole
Celestial equator
Circumpolar
Zodiac
Altitude
Azimuth
Right ascension
Declination
Planet
Prograde / retrograde
Sidereal
Occultation
Opposition
Conjunction
Elongation (or, greatest elongation)
Syzygy
Intercalary (or, leap)
Lunisolar
Heliacal
Language family
Endonym/exonym
Ethnonym
Glossonym
Swadesh list
Artifact
Alignment [astronomical]
Hierophany
Petroglyph

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