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Jean Collins Kerr Jean Collins Kerr
Jean Collins Kerr 1923-2003, American comic author and playwright, b. Scranton, Pa., wife of Walter Kerr . Kerr had a knack for finding wry humor in the worlds of marriage, suburbia, and show business. Her novel Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) was made into a movie (1960) and a television... Read more
Imagery (Psychology) Imagery (Psychology)
Mental imagery A picture created by the imagination with no visual stimulus required. Mental images are created by the brain from memories, imagination , or a combination of both. In the 1990s, scientists were gaining knowledge of how the brain forms these visual pictures without input from... Read more
Eddie Cicotte Eddie Cicotte
1919 Chicago White Sox American baseball team Often dubbed the greatest scandal in sports history, the "Black Sox" story is one of how greed and deception came to rule the diamonds during the 1919 World Series. The Chicago White Sox, a team consisting of some of the greatest players the game had... Read more
Personality development Personality development
Personality development Definition Personality development is the development of the organized pattern of behaviors and attitudes that makes a person distinctive. Personality development occurs by the ongoing interaction of temperament, character, and... Read more
Mind Mind
MIND. The science of mind is the empirical and theoretical search for the foundations of our mental lives. Unlike other subjects of scientific investigation, such as stars or rocks, human mental lives defy easy definition. Yet few would dispute that such a definition would have to encompass... Read more
Quantum Physics Quantum Physics
Physics, Quantum Quantum theory is one of the most successful theories in the history of physics. The accuracy of its predictions is astounding. The breath of its application is impressive. Quantum theory is used to explain how atoms behave, how elements can combine to form molecules, how light... Read more
language acquisition language acquisition
language acquisition the process of learning a native or a second language. The acquisition of native languages is studied primarily by developmental psychologists and psycholinguists. Although how children learn to speak is not perfectly understood, most explanations involve both the observation... Read more
Larry Adler Larry Adler
Larry Adler (Lawrence Cecil Adler) ăd´ler , 1914-2001, American harmonica player, b. Baltimore. Adler, whose career spanned seven decades, is generally credited with elevating the harmonica to concert status in the classical music world. As a child he studied piano and was briefly... Read more
Microwave communications Microwave communications
RESONANCE CONCEPT Though people seldom witness it directly, the entire world is in a state of motion, and where solid objects are concerned, this motion is manifested as vibration. When the vibrations produced by one object come into alignment with those of another, this is... Read more
Oscillation Oscillation
OSCILLATION CONCEPT When a particle experiences repeated movement about a position of stable equilibrium, or balance, it is said to be in harmonic motion, and if this motion is repeated at regular intervals, it is called periodic motion. Oscillation is a type of harmonic... Read more

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