A thought or sequence of thoughts with no accompanying image or sensation. Whether such thoughts exist has been debated since the time of the ancient Greeks: the weight of modern opinion among psychologists is that they do.

The child conditioned by J.B.WATSON to fear rats.

In general, placing the source of a particular stimulus; The most common usage is perhaps in BRAIN LOCALISATION.

French for ‘scholarly idiot’: a person who appears to be mentally retarded but possesses outstanding mental abilities in one area. These abilities can include music, drawing and especially computation. We cannot really account for this apparent contradiction.

Refers to the sense that deals with movement of the body and the limbs.

See PROPRIOCEPTORS.

Holding certain values and standards for one’s SELF and striving to realise them.

In PSYCHOANALYSIS, the hidden REPRESSED meaning of a DREAM.

Compare with MANIFEST CONTENT.

The VARIABLE in a study whose changes are the basis for predictions because they are not dependent upon changes in any other variable in the study. The most familiar example of an independent variable is an EXPERIMENTAL VARIABLE.

The name given to a PSYCHOANALYST without a medical degree.

A COMPULSION to steal. See also MANIA.