Sentences with phrase «psychological phenomena such»

Not exact matches

I will argue that theoretical models, such as the «billard ball model» of a gas, are not merely convenient calculating devices or temporary psychological aids in the formulation of theories; they have an important continuing role in suggesting both modifications in existing theories and the discovery of new phenomena.

To seek one's humanity in a person of the same sex is to seek «a substitute for the despised partner,» and as such it constitutes «physical, psychological and social sickness, the phenomenon of perversion, decadence and decay.»

For example, for the frequently used word «events» (used in describing natural phenomena in space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.

But for me the most destructive aspect of phenomena such as Let Our Kids Be Kids is how they incite the young to see their problems through the prism of psychological harm.

And they have done so explicitly, whereas «denial» is such a well - known psychological phenomenon it is part of the popular lexicon.