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In evolutionary psychology, people often speak of the four Fs which are said to be the four basic and most primal drives (motivations or instincts) that animals (including humans) are evolutionarily adapted to have, follow, and achieve: fighting, fleeing, feeding and fucking (a more polite synonym is the word "mating"). [1]
The four-sides model (also known as communication square or four-ears model) is a communication model postulated in 1981 by German psychologist Friedemann Schulz von Thun. According to this model every message has four facets though not the same emphasis might be put on each.
Ψ , the first letter of the Greek word psyche from which the term psychology is derived, is commonly associated with the field of psychology. In 1890, William James defined psychology as "the science of mental life, both of its phenomena and their conditions." [14] This definition enjoyed widespread currency for decades.
Four Fs (evolution), "fighting, fleeing, feeding, and fornicating" Four Fs (legal), "fruit, fungi, flowers, and foliage" Four Fs as applied in military parlance ...
Syntactic bootstrapping is a theory in developmental psycholinguistics and language acquisition which proposes that children learn word meanings by recognizing syntactic categories (such as nouns, adjectives, etc.) and the structure of their language.
At its broadest, the life style includes self-concept, the self-ideal (or ego ideal), an ethical stance and a view of the wider world. [8] Classical Adlerian psychotherapy attempts to dissolve the archaic style of life and stimulate a more creative approach to living, using the standpoint of social usefulness as a benchmark for change. [9]
Styles are not necessarily consciously created; there are a number of processes that contribute to the construction of meaning for both individual speech variants and styles. Individual variants can be adopted by multiple styles. When a variant is newly adopted by a style, it changes both the perception of the variant and the perception of the ...
I noticed this expression in an article titled Emotions: from robot to brain by Arbib (2004) which names A review of theory in physiological psychology by Pribram (1960) as its source. The latter article does indeed name these four drives (although calls the last one simply sex instead of reproduction) but does designate them as The Four Fs.