Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Simple schizophrenia

    Schizophrenia in which the chief symptoms are apathy and withdrawal.  

  • Simple phobia

    Simple phobia

    An irrational fear caused by a specific object or situation.  

  • Simple mastectomy

    Surgical removal of the breast tissue only. Treatment of breast cancer in which the breast, nipple, areola, and the involved overlying skin is removed.  

  • Simon-binet scale

    Albert Binet and Thomas Simon were the first to develop a measurement of intelligence in 1905 is an intelligence quotient scale or measurement.  

  • Similarity effect

    The tendency for people who are similar to become attracted to each other.  

  • Silicosis

    A pulmonary disease caused by the inhalation of finely powdered silica or quartz. A disease of the lungs caused by inhaling silica dust from mining or stone-crushing operations. Form of pneumoconiosis produced by inhaling silica dust; common among sandblasters, some miners, and others who work with sand. Pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of silica dust, often…

  • Significant others

    Persons in one’s life who have an influence upon the way one behaves: spouse, children, close friends and relatives, and coworkers. A person with whom a patient has a close relationship, which may or may not include relatives or a spouse.  

  • Significant human exposure levels

    A health risk-assessment tool used to assist the health assessor in making determinations about human health risks by defining exposure levels believed to cause adverse health effects.  

  • Significant difference

    In statistics, a difference that is unlikely to have occurred by chance.  

  • Signal-detection theory

    A theory that asserts that the observers who are asked to detect the presence or absence of a stimulus try to decide whether an internal sensory experience should be attributed to back-ground noise or to a signal added to background noise.  

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