Wikipedia:Stanford Archive answers/Psychology

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  1. aircrib -> invention by B. F. Skinner in which he raised his second daughter. "Warm air, moved by convection or a fan, depending on the outside temperature, rises through a tightly stretched woven plastic sheet surrounded by clear plastic or glass walls which provide a soundproof and germ-free environment for growth and development."
  2. Analytic judgement and Synthetic judgement, distinctions made by Immanuel Kant
  3. Concrete-Operational stage -> stage of cognitive development
  4. Ego identity -> Erik Erikson's Childhood and Society characterizes the final stage of life with either this or despair, depending on whether or not the individual is able to accept the life he has led.
  5. Emergent fear -> opposite of constructed fear. See Culture of fear
  6. Morality of Constraint -> social development theory by Jean Piaget
  7. Preconventional, Conventional, Postconventional <- stages of development as dictated by Kohlberg's theory of social development
  8. Rational will -> conscious choice of means to a specific end. Gesellschaft is based on rational will, as opposed to Gemeinschaft. Also known as krwille in German.
  9. Residues and Derivatives, Residue and Derivative, Residuo and Derivato, Residui and Derivati, Residuo i Derivato, Residui i Derivati < Sociological theory created by Vilfredo Pareto
  10. Right Man or Right Woman < "Colin Wilson and A.E. Van Vogt concocted these dominant individuals whose fragile self-esteem rests upon absolute control of their domestic sphere."
  11. Tridimensional theory of Feeling -> 1893 theory put forth by Wilhelm Wundt