Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The strength of a sensation is proportional to the logarithm of physical stimulus intensity.  

Leaving one’s body with the feces and later entering another person’s body by way of the mouth as in contaminated water or food.  

Pertaining to feces.  

Neurons that respond to specific aspects of a stimulus such as movement or color.  

A measure of the workability of a plan or proposal.  

According to Mowrer and Miller, a response to a threatening or noxious situation that is covert and unobservable but which is assumed to function as a stimulus to produce measurable physiological changes in the body and observable overt behavior, fear drive.  

The tendency for a person to worry about being more successful than others because it may jeopardize his or her interpersonal relations.  

According to Mowrer and Miller, an unpleasant internal state that impels avoidance. The need to reduce a fear drive can form the basis for new learning.  

In biology or zoology, the animal life in a given geographic area, flora.  

In safety epidemiology, used after an accident occurs. Traces back to find what was the initial cause or causes of an accident.