Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Romantic love.  

The use of scaled agree-disagree statements in attitude measurement. A scale developed by Rensis Likert, a social psychologist, to quantify a person’s response to a particular statement. A typical application, for instance, might be a survey on health care costs which includes the following statement: Doctors earn too much money, and then asks whether you…

A source of illumination with filters and controlled color balance for use with a microscope.  

The tendency to perceive the lightness of an object as more or less the same despite the fact that the light reflected from the object changes with the illumination that falls on it.    

A labor process in which the uterus sinks downward because the fetus’s presenting part settles far down into the pelvic area. Descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity occurring in late pregnancy; it leaves more room in the upper abdomen and changes the profile of the pregnant woman’s abdomen. The fetus is said to…

The use of artificial body parts and machines to maintain physiological (but not necessarily functional) life.  

Activities that are a regular part of a person’s daily pattern of living. A person’s pattern of living and behavior, especially as distinguished from the behavior patterns or life choices of others.  

The orientation toward psychological development that maintains that development continues throughout a person’s life rather than ending at some point.  

The time that a person actually lives. The maximal obtainable age by a member of a species.  

A term coined by Lewin referring to the entire complex psychologic world; and it is the person’s perception that determines what his or her actions will be