Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Group therapy
A social interaction as a means for understanding and dealing with mental and emotional problems tends to help the persons in the group to clarify their values and establish new and more effective value systems. A type of psychotherapy where a group of people with the same disorder meet together with a therapist to discuss…
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Group theory
A group number, objects, concepts, or events explains change from within and change from outside.
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Group test
A test that can be administered to several people at the same time, individual test.
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Group-summary appraisal
In business and industry, managers reach a consensus of assessment of subordinates’ performance.
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Group process
In health education, the application of educational and communication principles in group situations, designed to facilitate problem solving and decision making through mutual stimulation of creative and critical thinking or to increase the credibility and attractiveness of recommended health practices.
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Group plan
Representing the majority of health insurance policies; they are usually sold through one’s employment. Such plans tend to be less expensive and broader in coverage than individual plans.
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Group norms
Appropriate or standard behavior that is required of informal group members.
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Group mind
McDougalls’ early concept for the shared beliefs or conceptions in a group said not to be reducible to individuals’ mental processes.
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Group marriage
Involves two marriages, two couples and an additional person, or one couple and an additional person. One of the most noteworthy experiments occurred through the establishment of the Oneida Community in upstate New York in 1884 by John Humphrey Noyes. The experiment ended in the 1880s when the community splintered and Noyes retreated to Canada.…
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Group investigation
In education, a process of learning together in a cooperative manner, cooperative learning.
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