Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Principle of self-pacing

    In programmed learning, the principle that emphasizes the importance of allowing the learner to proceed at his or her own pace.    

  • Principle of immediate confirmation

    In programmed learning, the principle that stresses the effect of immediate knowledge of the correctness of the response.  

  • Principle of active responding

    In programmed learning the principle that stresses the importance of the learner’s performance of the response to be learned.  

  • Principle

    An individual who is the chief administrator of a school. A significant truth that is often stated as a cause-and-effect relationship. A rule or the ory. A standard of ethical behaviour. A constituent of a compound representing its essential properties.  

  • Primoquinine

    A synthetic substitute for quinine used in treating malaria.  

  • Primitive

    Pertains to early, less civilized cultures. Undeveloped, undifferentiated, rudimentary.  

  • Priming

    Using the environmental stimuli to make a schema salient.  

  • Primates

    The order of animals including humans, apes, and monkeys. An order of vertebrates belonging to the class Mammalia, subclass Theria, including the lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans. This order is most highly developed with respect to the brain and nervous system.  

  • Primary water treatment

    The removal of easily sedimented solid materials by the passage of the water through grit chambers. Some fats, carbohydrates, and proteins may also be removed, secondary water treatment; tertiary water treatment.  

  • Primary syphilis

    The first stage of syphilis most generally manifested by the appearance of a painless lesion, the chancre.  

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