Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In education, a unit of measure that represents an hour of scheduled instruction to learners.  

The warmth and comfort infants derive from touching their mothers or other caretakers is an aspect of normal sexual development.  

Action that represents the completion of goal-seeking activity.  

Behavior that fulfills some motive. The consummatory response indicates that the goal has been achieved, appetitive behavior.  

Pertains to all members of a particular household who are related by blood or legal arrangements.  

Laws, programs, and agencies whose basic concern is to prevent industries from developing health products and providing health services based on greed or carelessness and unethical or fraudulent practices.  

An index established by the U.S. Department of Labor for measuring changes in the prices of consumer products using a base year index for comparisons. An economic index prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. It measures the change in average prices of the goods and services purchased by…

The involvement of consumers of health services in planning the health services they are to receive with the intention of making programs more relevant to their needs.  

An evaluation intended to serve the information needs of consumers.  

A type of relationship between client and an intervenor wherein the client is the consumer who enters the marketplace seeking specific services from an intervenor or change agent. The consumer purchases the services for a negotiated or agreed upon price.