Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A teacher-centered approach that requires the learner to memorize health facts that are recited to the rest of the class. It has very little value in indicating student comprehension.  

Mutual influence between parent and child. In contrast to views that influence is unidirectional from parent to child.  

The expectation that good and not harm will be returned to those who have provided benefit.  

To return feelings and attitudes that are expressed about a person.  

A flexibility technique whereby a muscle group is isometrically contracted immediately prior to passive stretching of their antagonists takes place.  

The theory that sex roles are learned not through identification with same sex models but from persons who interact with boys and girls in role-differentiated ways.  

A conditioning approach to habit change using systematic desensitization reciprocal inhibition.  

In social learning theory, the continuous reciprocal interaction among a person’s behavior, personality, and environment.  

In genetics, a second cross involving the same strains but carried by sexes opposite to those of the first cross.  

Altruism that is based on the expectation that today’s giver will be tomorrow’s taker, kin-selection hypothesis; alarm call.