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1. Ibn Arabi Ibn 'Arabī (Arabic: ابن عربي‎) (July 28, 1165 - November 10, 1240) was an Arab Sufi Muslim mystic and philosopher. His full name was Abū 'Abdullāh Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn More… 1.7 KB
2. Id resistance A type of resistance that takes the form of a repetition compulsion; the same material continues to recur regardless of number and variety of analytic interpretation. Id resistance may More… 0.2 KB
3. Id sadism The primitive, instinctual, destructive impulses of the early infancy that are associated with omnipotent gratification and security and usually provoked by frustration.
4. Id wish The instinctual desires that arise from the repressed unconscious, primitive reaches of the mind. The urges are generally aggressive or erotic.
5. Idea Is a form formed by consciousness through the process of ideation. Human capability to contemplate ideas is associated with the ability of reasoning, self-reflection, and of the ability to More… 0.6 KB
6. Idealization Is the process by which scientific models assume facts about the phenomenon being modeled that are certainly false. Often these assumptions are used to make models easier to understand or More… 4.6 KB
7. Idealized image an ideational contrust of the self that supplies unity and striving in the world of people and things. The idealized image is a false and exaggerated estimate of one's true More… 0.3 KB
8. Ideas bank A website where people post, exchange, discuss, and polish new ideas. Some ideas banks are used for the purpose of developing new inventions or technologies. Many corporations have installed More… 2.1 KB
9. Ideas of reference Ideas of reference and delusions of reference involve people having a belief or perception that irrelevant, unrelated or innocuous things in the world are referring to them directly or have More… 1.0 KB
10. Ideational learning learning in which there is a high degree of understanding or the comprehension of concepts, as opposed to learning that is rote or involves relatively meaningless material such as nonsense More… 0.2 KB
11. Idebenone is an organic compound of the quinone family and promoted commercially as a synthetic analog of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). Idebenone is claimed to have properties similar to CoQ10 in its More… 1.1 KB
12. Identical components theory A theory of transfer of training explained by Edward Lee Thorndike. The theory maintains that in relation to the components of a task learned before will facilitate easy learning of a new More… 0.5 KB
13. Identical twins in connection with "Heredity" we have referred to the multiplication and devision. While first dividing, it so happens sometimes that the newly-produced two cells are separated, More… 1.9 KB
14. Identification Is the capability to find, retrieve, report, change, or delete specific data without ambiguity. This applies especially to information stored in databases. In database normalization, it is More… 1.2 KB
15. Identification test a test on averbal intelligence scale in which the examiner points to a picture of a part of an object and asks the subject to name it.
16. Identity thesis An attempted solution to the mind-body problem based on the claim that mental events are not caused by processes in the brain but are, in fact, just these processes. The thesis finally More… 0.3 KB
17. Identityism is the English term most often used to represent the school of Sufi metaphysics of unity of being traditionally called Wahdat-ul-Wujood or Wahdat al-wujud (Arabic: Literally, unity of More… 0.4 KB
18. Ideocentrism Other terminologies for ideocentrism are individualistic-individualism and independent self-ideocentrism. It is defined as the inability to view the world from a different ideological More… 1.6 KB
19. Ideogram a symbolic representation of an object by a single symbol. For example, a key might signify the gateway to knowledge.
20. Ideokinetic apraxia the inability to carry out seriatim or sequential functions. Individual motor responses may be intact, but the patient is unable to put them into a correct sequence.
21. Ideomotor effect a psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously. As in reflexive responses to pain, the body sometimes reacts reflexively to ideas alone without the person More… 2.2 KB
22. Idiopathic Idiopathic is an adjective used primarily in medicine meaning arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause. From Greek, idios (one's own) + pathos (suffering), it means More… 1.4 KB
23. Idiosyncracy credits interpersonal influence that a leader earns by helping the group achieve task goals and by conforming to group norms.
24. Idiothetic Literally means "self-proposition" (Greek derivation), and is used in navigation models as in the phrase "idiothetic cues" to indicate that path integration was used to More… 0.4 KB

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