nondeclarative
- adjective
- /ˌnɒndɪˈklɛrətɪv/
- Specialized
- Learning to ride a bicycle often involves nondeclarative knowledge, allowing you to balance without conscious thought.
Examples
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Procedural learning encompasses motor skills, perceptual skills, cognitive skills, habit formation, classical conditioning, and priming, and has been referred to in the literature as nondeclarative memory, which in some cases is also called implicit memory.
Academic text (1997) -
The terms implicit or explicit, declarative or nondeclarative, and conscious or nonconscious have all been used as descriptive terms for this main separation of memory systems.
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Many athletes rely on nondeclarative memory to execute complex movements without thinking about them.
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Playing the piano becomes easier with practice, as many of the skills turn into nondeclarative actions over time.
Synonyms
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Done without thinking, like a quick natural reaction
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Mental processes in your mind that happen without your awareness and affect your actions
How Conscious
Surface Forms
Morphology
nondeclarative = declarative (transparent) = non + declarative
The meaning is a straightforward negation formed by productive prefix 'non-' + the adjective 'declarative' (i.e., 'not declarative').
Etymology
Nondeclarative is made of non- 'not' and declare 'to say clearly'. So it names kinds of memory or skills you cannot easily 'say' or explain, like riding a bike, because they work automatically.