There is a growing tendency in biology and comparative psychology to restrict the term instinct to inherited purposive adaptations. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913 In both popular and scientific literature the term instinct has been given such a variety of meanin...
Instinct is not an isolated thing, nor can it be isolated in practice. It always brings in its train archetypal contents of a spiritual nature, which are at once its foundation and its limitation. In other words, an instinct is always and inevitably coupled with something like a philosophy o...
(psychology) A primary tendency or inborn drive, as toward life, sexual reproduction, and death. (zoology) A precise form of behavior in which there is an invariable association of a particular series of responses with specific stimuli; an unconditioned compound reflex. McGraw-Hill Dictionary ...
Instinct and Intuition: a Study in Mental Duality Mr. Dibblee was led into researches into the nature of intelligence, instinct, and intuition by his previous work on the "Psychology of Supply and Demand and of Economic Value" His conviction that demand is dependent upon value, and that... ...
depth psychology,psychoanalysis,analysis- a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis" impulse,urge- an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses" ...
Topics discussed are: origins in philosophy and theology, early scientific uses, the anti-instinct revolt, current thought in psychology, genes and behavior, the meaning of genetical determination, and the ontogeny of behavior. The author concludes that when the methods of analysis that he proposes...
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but I was believing it would be nothing special. I WAS wrong. It had been very long, since I had last seen a film, with a message, a meaning and a higher value than entertainment, but this one is it. Maybe it's just because I study psychology, but I really enjoyed this film. It...
In the past 20 years, the concept of instinct has been discussed in respect to various disciplines such as evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, linguistics, ethics, aesthetics, and phenomenology, etc. However, the meaning of in... NI Lee - 《Yearbook for Eastern & Western Philosophy》...