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The term paradigm is used with several somewhat different meanings:
- as an example, especially an exemplar which is used as a model in teaching
- as a specific type of experimental research design (mainly used in this sense in psychology)
- as a research tradition, encompassing various broad commitments (this meaning is also sometimes described as a disciplinary matrix)
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