Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

An approach to teacher education that is concerned not only with teacher candidates’ cognitive development but with their emotional and attitudinal development as well.  

Medical practice and culture that respects and incorporates the concepts that the person is more than his or her disease and the professional is more than a scientifically trained mind using technical skills. People are more than their bodies. They are unique, interdependent relationships of body, mind, emotions, culture, and spirit. Each person has the…

Insight psycho therapy that emphasizes the individual’s subjective experiences, free will, and ever-present ability to decide on a new life course.  

Humanistic therapies.  

Designed and constructed machines and controls to increase comfort, ease, and simplicity for users.  

The application to human behavior of the research orientation based on the assumption that innate behavioral predispositions contribute to behavior development in important ways.  

Associated with motivation that influences the intensity of a person’s response to internal and/or external stimuli. When an external motivator is related to some internal need, it activates the energy necessary for appropriate action to take place. The intensity of motivation determines the amount of energy necessary for the endurance to achieve the goal or…

Generally, how well people perform in achieving predetermined goals. Factors that influence are a. hereditary makeup, b. personal qualities that are developed, c. the quality of the social and physical environments, and d. the quality of the health care system is variable since a person may be effective in one setting and ineffective in another…

The study of the relations between humans and their environment.  

The study of the development of humans from infancy through adulthood.