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  2. Psychology - Wikipedia

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    Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. [1][2] Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social ...

  3. Embodied cognition - Wikipedia

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    Embodied cognition is the concept suggesting that many features of cognition are shaped by the state and capacities of the organism. The cognitive features include a wide spectrum of cognitive functions, such as perception biases, memory recall, comprehension and high-level mental constructs (such as meaning attribution and categories) and performance on various cognitive tasks (reasoning or ...

  4. Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems - Wikipedia

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    "Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems" is an essay by Fred Lerdahl that cites Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans maître (1955) as an example of "a huge gap between compositional system and cognized result," though he "could have illustrated just as well with works by Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, or Iannis Xenakis".

  5. List of credentials in psychology - Wikipedia

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    Master's degrees in psychology. Master of Arts (MA) or Master of Science (MS) in behavior analysis, counseling psychology, clinical psychology. A Master of Arts (MA) in marriage and family therapy may be in psychology. A master's degree in the specified area may require completion of a master's thesis, dissertation and/or project.

  6. Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development - Wikipedia

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    Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development constitute an adaptation of a psychological theory originally conceived by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. Kohlberg began work on this topic as a psychology graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1958 and expanded upon the theory throughout his life. [1][2][3]

  7. Extended mind thesis - Wikipedia

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    The thesis proposes that some objects in the external environment can be part of a cognitive process and in that way function as extensions of the mind itself. Examples of such objects are written calculations, a diary, or a PC; in general, it concerns objects that store information. The hypothesis considers the mind to encompass every level of ...

  8. Light triad - Wikipedia

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    In psychology the light triad scale quantifies empathy, compassion and altruism. The idea was first suggested by Laura Johnson in her 2018 masters thesis. [1] The light triad comprises Kantianism, Humanism, and Faith In Humanity. [2] The light triad scale assesses people by their responses to statements like: I think people are mostly good.

  9. Construal level theory - Wikipedia

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    Construal level theory (CLT) is a theory in social psychology that describes the relation between psychological distance and the extent to which people's thinking (e.g., about objects and events) is abstract or concrete. [1][2] The core idea of CLT is that the more distant an object is from the individual, the more abstract it will be thought ...