Personality can be determined through a variety of tests, such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2), Rorschach Inkblot test, Neurotic Personality Questionnaire KON-2006 or the ...
Many theories of development have aspects of identity formation included in them. Two theories stand out in regards to this topic: Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development (specifically the ...
Metaphysicians, and sometimes philosophers of language and mind, ask other questions:What does it mean for an object to be the same as itself?If x and y are identical (are the same thing), must they a ...
When an object changes, it always changes in some particular way. A baby grows up, and so changes in respect of size and maturity; a snake sheds its skin, and so changes in respect of its skin. "Chang ...
Philosophy is divided into many sub-fields. These include epistemology, logic, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. Some of the major areas of study are considered individually below.EpistemologyMain ...
A cluster of genes which are close to one another at a chromosome locus are called contiguous. Contiguous gene disorders result from deletions or duplications of a chromosome segment that cause a cont ...
Carl Jung distinguished between two types of unconscious mind: the personal unconscious and collective unconscious (Dewey, 2007). The personal unconscious was the accumulation of experiences from a pe ...
The term "unconscious" (German: Unbewusste) was coined by the 18th-century German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling (in his System of Transcendental Idealism, ch. 6, § 3) and later introduced ...
The term comes from the Greek διχοτομ?α dichotomia "dividing in two" from δ?χα dicha "in two, asunder" and τομ? tome "a cutting, incision".UsageThe above applies directly when the ter ...
Human performance with regard to decisions has been the subject of active research from several perspectives:Psychological: examining individual decisions in the context of a set of needs, preferences ...
Extraversion is "the act, state, or habit of being predominantly concerned with obtaining gratification from what is outside the self". Extraverts tend to enjoy human interactions and to be enthusiast ...
A gut feeling, or gut reaction, is a visceral emotional reaction to something. It may be negative, such as a feeling of uneasiness, or positive, such as a feeling of trust. Gut feelings are generally ...
The word thought comes from Old English ?oht, or ge?oht, from stem of ?encan "to conceive of in the mind, consider".The word “thought” may mean,:a single product of thinking or a single idea (“M ...
Philosophy of the mind is one of the main branches in philosophy which deals with the concept of intuition, Intuition has been dealt with both Eastern Western philosophers in great details, understan ...
The study of irrational behavior is of interest in fields such as psychology, cognitive science, economics, game theory, and evolutionary psychology, as well as of practical interest to the practition ...