Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Within a given period of intellectual growth, the lag time as children apply the same intellectual structures to different content areas, vertical decalage.  

In education, a design for a written curriculum guide where all information is presented across (horizontally) a page. More simplistic, flexible, and usable than the vertical format. Provides teachers with suggestions for student learning, information, and methodology.  

According to Mowrer’s theory, the emotion elicited by a stimulus that has been paired with a positive reinforcer. The expectation that something desired will occur. One of the bases of professional health care is encouraging and supporting the presence of hope while providing accurate information and realistic reassurance. The concept in Snyder’s model that refers…

A tiny parasite that imbeds in the intestinal wall causing anemia and lack of energy is caused by the worm Necator Americanus. A parasitic worm. Either of two nematode worms, Necator americanus or Ancylostoma duodenale, which live as parasites in the intestine of man. Both species, also known as the New and Old World hookworms…

Clitoral foreskin adhesions. The condition in which the foreskin of the clitoris covers the glans clitoris to the extent that it interferes with adequate sexual stimulation, clitoral hood.  

A miniature individual imagined by early biologists to be present in the head of the sperm cell. Dwarf with no deformity or abnormality and all parts of the body proportionate. A dwarf with no deformity or abnormality other than small size. A dwarf in whom the body parts develop in their normal proportions. Diminutive of…

An allele that contains two identical dominant genes or two recessive genes.  

Equatorial division.  

The condition in which the thallus is self-fertile, or bisexual. Single individuals can form fertile zygotes heterothallism.  

A condition in which both male and female sexual structures can develop on the same thallus.