Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A hormone from the cortex of the adrenals has been used in treating Addison’s disease. An extract of the cortex of the adrenal gland; contains a mixture of the active steroid agents such as corticosterone.  

A chemical messenger produced by the hypothalamus and released into the closed circulatory pathway shared with the pituitary gland stimulates the pituitary’s production of ACTH.  

Pertaining to hormones of the adrenal cortex.  

The receptor for hearing which lies within the cochlea. A membrane in the cochlea which takes sounds and converts them into impulses sent to the brain along the auditory nerve. The organ of hearing in the inner ear, a minute duct filled with microscopic hair cells that take incoming sound vibrations and transform them into…

Acids, alkalis, and petroleum products that burn and inflame body tissues on contact.  

Now largely obsolete, in education, learning by written assignments that are mailed to the instructor for grading and comments.  

Studies dealing with the extent to which two or more variables covary. Also called observational studies; research studies that can determine the strength and direction of relationships between two or more variables but not their causal relationships.  

A method of psychological investigation in which the attempt is to discover the interrelationships among response measures, correlational studies.  

Ascertaining whether or not a relationship exists between two variables.  

Any of a variety of hypotheses entertained by subjects in experiments on verbal conditioning that attributes reward to some form of behavior other than that being reinforced, but leads to reward more often than would happen by chance because the behavior is somehow related to what is being rewarded.