Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The ongoing process of realizing one’s potential.  

An inherent nature to pass through a sequential series of stages, progressing toward higher levels of motivation and organization. The most prominent of these are Carl Roger’s self-theory; Abraham Maslow’s self-actualization theory; and Rollo May’s, Paul Tillich’s, and Erich Fromm’s existential theories.  

The ways a person actually behaves according to the ways in which he or she is fitted to behave.  

Moral behavior selected by a person as opposed to socially imposed moral and ethical codes or standards.  

In epidemiology, the result of differences between those who die and those who live. Those who survive can have characteristics related to maintaining life that confound retrospective studies of health conditions causing mortality.  

Minimizing the number of one’s different sexual partners.  

A health-screening procedure conducted on persons who are at high risk for contracting a specific health condition.  

A possible confounding factor in longitudinal research in which less healthy people in a sample are more likely to dropout.  

Trial and error learning in which the- subjects learn to select the correct response from among many possible responses.  

A way of obtaining information in which a person attends to data that support his or her choice or preference and overlooks data to the contrary.