Sentences with phrase «of psychological questions»

Their MyPersonality app enabled users to fill out different psychometric questionnaires, including a handful of psychological questions from the Big Five personality questionnaire («I panic easily,» «I contradict others»).

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My question to both of you is really apt to psychological biases.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

Based on some of the arguments Grossman made about how administrative efforts to prevent sexually transmitted disease actually lead to more sexual activity, more disease, and more psychological distress, Nava penned an op / ed for the Daily Princetonian questioning the campus's programs on condom distribution and sexual health titled «Princeton's Latex Lies.»

Rollo May has put us particularly in his debt by his insistence that an «ontology of human existence» is required even with the strict limits of psychological theory.16 But now we go beyond the general doctrine of man to the Christian answer to the religious question.

In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitae.

It is sad because, on the big issue of the day — the question of what it means to be human — a Republican president is publicly endorsing the world of Psychological Man.

The intuitional evidence for belief in Allah, the belief based upon the recognition of Allah by our inner consciousness, is brought to our attention in the Qur» an by pointing out the important psychological fact that there is an instinctive feeling of faith in Almighty Allah, the Creator of the universe, which comes to men when they are free from inclinations, or the distractions of dull routines, or when surprised by the question of the origin of the universe, or when faced with hardships or misfortunes which they can not overcome by themselves.

The dynamic motivating power of sex has, beyond the moral questions, biological and psychological dimensions which must be studied and understood.

To the second question — whether mystery will vanish in psychological simplification — the answer is that only an oversimplification of the issue could possibly lead to this conclusion.

However, he makes a mistake in framing the question of the psychological status of same - sex attraction in terms of its correlation with psychological adjustment or maladjustment.

The real nub of the question for many earnest minds is whether the voice of God is anything other than our own psychological processes.

In one of the essays in this volume, pastoral theologian Carrie Doehring distinguishes between «theological literacy,» which knows the vocabulary and the right answers to the questions, and «theological fluency,» in which «we «inhabit» our theology as a faith perspective that we use to understand and respond to spiritual and psychological needs.

Though Leifer casts her net broadly, she focuses particularly on television and film, and she functions within the constraints of the psychological research, which itself deals largely with cause and effect questions and with carefully selected variables, one or two at a time.

Also from a psychological standpoint, you avoided the question i posed along with showing signs of aggression so apparently you did leave for selfish reasons and not logical one's, Good day.

The sociologist of religion will have to answer that question on the basis of broad theological and juridical, historical, psychological, and sociological information.

It is certainly no accident that psychological questions again and again come to, the fore in Hinayana Buddhism; its individualistic and subjectivistic orientation is also illustrated by its great liking for the analysis and classification of mental processes.

On the question of the actual psychological processes involved in the birth of faith, and particularly on the question of whether faith is given once for all, we must exercise caution.

The question why the mind takes a certain course in given circumstances is the open door to the entire psychological problem which we have been prone to regard as a contribution of the Hellenic genius.

But on the whole, nineteenth century philosophical theology was not particularly interested in the question of original or corporate sin; it was far more involved in various responses to Hegel, the new prominence of biblical study and its corollary «quest for the historical Jesus,» and the implications of economic and psychological developments for Christian faith.

First, one can raise questions about the freedom of the act of faith; one then situates the problem in the field of an essentially psychological or anthropological discussion.

Since my acquaintance of the Guild for Psychological Studies is somewhat recent, I have asked Dr. Howes to write a brief appendix for this book, outlining the Guild's approach in more precise detail and providing several examples of the kinds of questions asked.

To the critical insights and the questioning method of her New Testament mentor, Henry Burton Sharman, Howes has added symbolic analysis and psychological insights drawn from her training under Fritz Kunkel and Carl G. Jung.

While these groups are undoubtedly a valuable support for many people, there have been some questions raised recently from within the group itself about the underlying premise of Courage that a homosexual orientation is a psychological disorder.

It is not, however, the accuracy of Dostoevsky's psychological observations that I would question, but — again — the credibility of the personalities by which they are illustrated.

We are dealing here with the very difficult questions of the relation of psychological concepts of healing to ultimate affirmations of faith in God and his grace.

The authors seem unaware of a possible psychological numbing of their own on certain questions.

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

Johnson concludes that «there is probably a complex «biology of sexual orientation,» but there are alos developmental and psychological processes in earl childhood, as well as culturally bound determinants throughout life, that contribute to the way each individual experiences sexual orientation... Therefore, the question of «essentialism versus constructivism» (basically, nature vs. nurture) presents us with a false dichotomy.

The question of power has been kept off the table in recent times by a religiousness that emphasizes a personal, psychological quest for happiness, comfort or meaning.

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For Whitehead, the answers to both questions, which I shall consider in turn, are framed in terms of the Psychological Physiology, the main «elements» of which consist of a nonsocial nexus of occasions in the brain (which functions as the body's principal source of creative novelty), the regnant society it supports, and their interactions with other bodily societies and nexuses (WPP 404 - 06).

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

The final task of this essay is to apply these thoughts on personal identity and «Psychological Physiology» to the questions of responsibility and guilt, and the first point to notice is that Whitehead's metaphysics excludes one sense of responsibility and guilt.

Today, the question is posited in the context of inherited and acquired influences, and of social psychology, asking how free we are to make decisions, showing that we are free only within a maybe very small area of inherited genetic data and acquired social and psychological habits.

One might question whether pain itself is evil and is a result of the fall, or whether the pain was more mental and psychological than physical?

In this context, much of what we ask children is unlikely to help them «locate the keys» to their self - awareness and motivation because our questions are actually inviting them into a misguided search for those keys — the light might be better where we invite them to look, but everyone disconsolately remains in the psychological dark.

Family meetings with the NICU team are held at regular intervals to address questions that range from newborn care to the psychological impact of caring for their child.

The other part is giving that consistent answer, and that is really based of a psychological term called an extinction burst and it basically means this, if you give your child the same answer to their same question, they will first go, oh, you changed to answer to this question.

Doubtless that will change the further we get from June's political car crash, but the key question is whether that average can be pushed up by the six per cent necessary to breach the psychological threshold of 30 per cent, above which Labour politicians can console themselves that they are within striking distance of the Tories.

In a blog post that went up late Friday night, Facebook explained that a University of Cambridge psychology professor, Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, created an app called «thisisyourdigitallife,» which asked users to answer questions to build a psychological profile.

The doctor who conducts psychological exams for men and women who want to become Buffalo police officers and firefighters may be on his way out, after complaints of racial bias and inappropriate questions probing applicants» sexual histories.

The psychologist who conducts psychological exams for men and women who want to become Buffalo police officers and firefighters may be on his way out, after complaints of racial bias and inappropriate questions probing applicants» sexual histories.

«Religious and spiritual struggles — conflicts with God or religious people, tough questions about faith, morality, and the meaning of life — these are often taboo topics, and the temptation to push them away is strong,» said Julie Exline, professor of psychological sciences at Case Western Reserve and co-author of the research.

But risk is a psychological phenomenon, not just a question of odds, and 2.5 per cent more of the workforce unemployed doesn't necessarily equal 2.5 per cent more fear — whatever that might mean.

It finally appeared in the journal's June issue, but the whole affair has raised questions about how legal threats can impact the progress of psychological science.

Not only do they grant access to Facebook info such as their likes and list of friends, but they also take standard psychological tests and answer survey questions.

The first is designed to make people question their own prejudices by explaining the psychological concept of essentialism.

Humane Society officials would not release the complaint but says it questions the quality of veterinary care and housing conditions, as well as the psychological well - being of the chimpanzees and monkeys.

This is fiction that challenges, that takes risks, that dares to bring dollops of strangeness into an ostensibly everyday narrative, that forces the reader to re-evaluate his or her perception of «reality», to question values and beliefs whether scientific, religious, philosophical, psychological, sociological or whatever.