Glossary M

Mimicry refers to a form of social learning that involves the duplication of a behavior without any understanding of the goal of that behavior.

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Min strategy is defined as an arithmetic strategy in which children faced with an addition problem start with the largest addend and count up from there.

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Deutsch: Geist / Español: mente / Português: mente / Français: esprit / Italiano: mente

The mind in psychology refers to the set of cognitive faculties that encompass consciousness, perception, thinking, judgment, memory, and emotions. It is the seat of thought and emotional processes, distinct from the brain as a physical organ. In psychological contexts, the mind is central to understanding behaviour, personality, mental health, and human development.

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Mind control refers to all coercive psychological systems, such as brainwashing, thought reform, and coercive persuasion.

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Mind Guarding refers to the tendency for members of a group to protect the leader or other decision-makers from input that might influence the leaders to change their minds or raise questions, therefore disrupting the harmony of the organization.

Mind reading believing that we know the thoughts in another person’s mind; imagining that we know what someone else is thinking

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- Mind-blindness (Mindblindness) : Mind-blindness refers to a neuropsychological deficit in which an animal's behavior suggests that it can "see" objects-that is, the test subjects do not bump into the object-but fail to recognize its significance, for example, as an object of fear. Please see also Mindblindness

Mind-body relationship is the philosophical position regarding whether the mind and body operate indistinguishably as a single system or whether they act as two (2) separate systems. The view guiding Health Psychology is that the mind and body are indistinguishable.