Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Operation

    In educational psychology, a mental action that can be reversed, organization; reversibility. Any medical procedure or act performed on the body with instruments or by the hands of a physician or surgeon. In developmental psychology, those skills and thought processes that are experienced as one grows and develops, concrete operational period. The way in which…

  • Operant pain

    Learned pain behavior that may respond to behavior modification respondent pain.  

  • Operant learning

    Learning that occurs as a result of the consequences of a behavior. Positive consequences increase the frequency of the behavior, while negative consequences decrease the frequency of the behavior.  

  • Operant goals

    The end result and the process for achieving this end. These goals are values clarification, decision making, and self-actualization.  

  • Operant behavior

    A response that is generated or modified through the expectation of a reward.  

  • Open wound

    A wound in which the affected tissues are exposed by an external opening. A contusion in which the skin is also broken, such as a gunshot, incised, or lacerated wound. A wound with a wide, open external gap.  

  • Open system

    A system that is influenced by and is in constant interaction with the environment.  

  • Open space school

    A school building without interior walls.  

  • Open panel

    A prepaid insurance plan or policy in which any health or medical provider may become the provider of the health and medical services needed.  

  • Open marriage

    A relationship in which the couples are committed to each other but are free to engage in sexual activities with others.  

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