The Oxford English Dictionary records the earliest known English-language usage of brainwashing in an article by newspaperman Edward Hunter, in Miami News, published on October 7, 1950. Hunter, said t ...
Brain injuries often create impairment or disability that can vary greatly in severity. In cases of serious brain injuries, the likelihood of areas with permanent disability is great, including neuroc ...
Dissociation, the term that underlies the dissociative disorders including DID, lacks a precise, empirical and generally agreed upon definition. A large number of diverse experiences have been termed ...
French psychologist Theodule-Armand Ribot was among the first scientists to study amnesia. He proposed Ribot's Law which states that there is a time gradient in retrograde amnesia. The law follows a l ...
DIT holds that genetic and cultural evolution interacted in the evolution of Homo sapiens. DIT recognizes that the natural selection of genotypes is an important component of the evolution of human be ...
Human agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices. It is normally contrasted to natural forces, which are causes involving only unthinking deterministic processes. In this respect, agency ...
According to Peter Harvey, while the suttas criticize notions of an eternal, unchanging Self, they see an enlightened being as one whose changing, empirical self is highly developed. One with "great s ...
Searle (1975) has set up the following classification of illocutionary speech acts:assertives = speech acts that commit a speaker to the truth of the expressed proposition, e.g. reciting a creeddirect ...
Realistic fiction, although untrue, could actually happen. Some events, people, and places may even be real. It may be possible that, in the future, imagined events could physically happen. For exampl ...
Otto Rank, coiner of the term "pre-Oedipal," was the first to create a modern theory of "object relations" in the late 1920s. Ronald Fairbairn in 1952 independently formulated it. The line of thought ...
Word classes (parts of speech) were described by Sanskrit grammarians from at least the 5th century BC. In Yāska's Nirukta, the noun (nāma) is one of the four main categories of words defined.The An ...
Richard H. Jones delineates five types of reductionism and antireductionism (emergence): substantive, structural (i.e. causes), theoretical, conceptual, and methodological. Most philosophers delineate ...
Giles studied at the University of British Columbia and at the University of Edinburgh. He lectures in psychology at Roskilde University in Denmark.Theory of sexual desireGiles published his theory of ...
Aristotelian logic identifies a proposition as a sentence which affirms or denies a predicate of a subject. An Aristotelian proposition may take the form "All men are mortal" or "Socrates is a man." I ...
Compatibilism was championed by the ancient Stoics and medieval scholasticism, such as that of St. Thomas Aquinas, and by such modern philosophers like David Hume and Thomas Hobbes. The term itself wa ...
