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  2. Ernst Heinrich Weber - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Heinrich Weber (24 June 1795 – 26 January 1878) [1] was a German physician who is considered one of the founders of experimental psychology. He was an influential and important figure in the areas of physiology and psychology during his lifetime and beyond. His studies on sensation and touch, along with his emphasis on good experimental ...

  3. History of psychology - Wikipedia

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    Many cultures throughout history have speculated on the nature of the mind, heart, soul, spirit, brain, etc. For instance, in Ancient Egypt, the Edwin Smith Papyrus contains an early description of the brain, and some speculations on its functions (described in a medical/surgical context) and the descriptions could be related to Imhotep who was the first Egyptian physician who anatomized and ...

  4. Baldwin effect - Wikipedia

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    The Baldwin effect compared to Lamarck's theory of evolution, Darwinian evolution, and Waddington 's genetic assimilation. All the theories offer explanations of how organisms respond to a changed environment with adaptive inherited change. In evolutionary biology, the Baldwin effect describes an effect of learned behaviour on evolution.

  5. Misato Katsuragi - Wikipedia

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    Misato Katsuragi (Japanese: 葛城 ミサト, Hepburn: Katsuragi Misato) is a fictional character from the Gainax-created media franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion.In the eponymous anime television series, Misato is head of the operations department of the special agency Nerv, and is in charge of directing and devising war strategies needed to defeat mysterious beings named Angels.

  6. Iron cage - Wikipedia

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    Iron cage. In sociology, the iron cage is a concept introduced by Max Weber to describe the increased rationalization inherent in social life, particularly in Western capitalist societies. The "iron cage" thus traps individuals in systems based purely on teleological efficiency, rational calculation and control.

  7. The perceived distance between touches on a single skin surface is larger on regions of high tactile sensitivity than those with lower acuity, an effect known as "Weber's illusion". This illusion suggests that tactile size perception involves a representation of the perceived size of body parts preserving characteristics of the somatosensory ...

  8. Ideal type - Wikipedia

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    Ideal type ( German: Idealtypus ), also known as pure type, is a typological term most closely associated with the sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920). [ 1] For Weber, the conduct of social science depends upon the construction of abstract, hypothetical concepts. The "ideal type" is therefore a subjective element in social theory and research ...

  9. Students' Concept Images of Average Rate of Change

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    In this paper, we describe students' concept images of average and average rate of change and the similarities and differences between those concept images. We do so by describing the students' ways of thinking and ways of understanding average and average rate of change, and how the students' meanings for average influenced their conceptions of average and instantaneous rates of change.

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