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  2. Reversal theory - Wikipedia

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    Reversal theory is a structural, phenomenological theory of personality, motivation, and emotion in the field of psychology. It focuses on the dynamic qualities of normal human experience to describe how a person regularly reverses between psychological states, reflecting their motivational style, the meaning they attach to a situation at a given time, and the emotions they experience.

  3. Bender-Gestalt Test - Wikipedia

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    D001538. The Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test (abbreviated as Bender-Gestalt test) is a psychological test used by mental health practitioners that assesses visual-motor functioning, developmental disorders, and neurological impairments in children ages 3 and older and adults. The test consists of nine index cards picturing different geometric ...

  4. Edgar Rubin - Wikipedia

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    Edgar John Rubin (September 6, 1886 – May 3, 1951) was a Danish psychologist / phenomenologist, remembered for his work on figure-ground perception as seen in such optical illusions like the Rubin vase . Born to Jewish parents, Rubin was born and raised in Copenhagen. Enrolling at the University of Copenhagen in 1904, he majored in psychology ...

  5. Psychology of art - Wikipedia

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    The psychology of art can be a criticized field for numerous reasons. Art is not considered a science, so research can be scrutinized for its accuracy and relativity. There is also a great deal of criticism about art research as psychology because it can be considered subjective rather than objective.

  6. History of the Teller–Ulam design - Wikipedia

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    Ivy Mike, the first full test of the Teller–Ulam design (a staged fusion bomb), with a yield of 10.4 megatons (November 1, 1952) The Teller–Ulam design is a technical concept behind modern thermonuclear weapons, also known as hydrogen bombs. The design – the details of which are military secrets and known to only a handful of major nations.

  7. Visual perception - Wikipedia

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    Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment. This is different from visual acuity, which refers to how clearly a ...

  8. Principle of least privilege - Wikipedia

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    The principle (of least privilege) is widely recognized as an important design consideration towards enhancing and giving a much needed 'Boost' to the protection of data and functionality from faults ( fault tolerance) and malicious behavior . Benefits of the principle include: Intellectual Security. When code is limited in the scope of changes ...

  9. Contextual architecture - Wikipedia

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    Contextual architecture, also known as Contextualism is a philosophical approach in architectural theory that refers to the designing of a structure in response to the literal and abstract characteristics of the environment in which it is built. [1] [2] Contextual architecture contrasts modernist architecture, which value the imposition of ...