Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In medicine, a sudden, intense, and severe anoxia.  

People who are on the payroll of an institution and classified by the institution as full-time.  

A funding model used at many universities where programs are funded based on the number of full-time students enrolled.  

From conception to within 3 weeks of 280 days gestation.  

In physiology, movement that starts from a fully extended, pre-stretched position and continues to a fully contracted position.  

The talents, skills, and abilities an individual can acquire and/or develop if provided with the proper learning experiences and environments.  

A method of measuring personality in which a questionnaire is used to assess the tendency to be subservient to authority. F stands for Fascist, authoritarianism.  

The amount of frustration that a person can undergo without a disintegration of behavior.  

Dollard’s proposal that frustration always leads to some kind of aggression and that aggression is always the result of frustration.  

Any situation that prevents a person from obtaining a desired goal. The emotional tension that arises when impulses, actions, or desires are blocked or thwarted. Frustration is a profound sense of dissatisfaction and tension that arises from unresolved problems, unfulfilled needs, or obstacles on the path to a goal. In some individuals, this feeling can…