APA Dictionary of Psychology

knowledge base

Updated on 11/15/2023
  1. an individual’s general background knowledge, which influences their performance on most cognitive tasks.
  2. a repository of factual and heuristic information, usually in machine-processable form.
  3. the body of accumulated information (research, best practices, and so on) that guides an organization’s approach to specific problems or challenges.
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