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1 observation of natural phenomena
Общая лексика: изучение природных явленийУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > observation of natural phenomena
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2 augury (Prophetic divining of the future by observation of natural phenomena)
Религия: ауспицииУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > augury (Prophetic divining of the future by observation of natural phenomena)
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3 observation
[͵ɒbzəʹveıʃ(ə)n] n1. 1) наблюдениеobservation of fire - воен. наблюдение за ведением огня
to keep under observation - а) держать под наблюдением; б) установить слежку
to escape /to avoid/ observation - остаться незамеченным, ускользнуть от наблюдения
2) изучение, наблюдениеhe was sent to the hospital for observation - его положили в больницу для (клинического) исследования /на обследование/
3) мор. наблюдение, обсервация2. наблюдательность3. обыкн. pl сведения, полученные путём наблюдений; результаты наблюдений; данные изучения или исследованияhave your observations led to any new discoveries? - привели ли ваши наблюдения к каким-нибудь новым открытиям?
4. замечание, высказываниеto make an observation on smth. - сделать замечание по поводу чего-л.
he didn't make a single observation during the whole dinner - он просидел весь обед молча
5. соблюдение (правил, обычаев и т. п.)6. измерение высоты или азимута небесного тела ( в навигации)7. воен. ближняя разведка -
4 observation
§ დაკვირვება, თვალის დევნება;§1 დაკვირვება2 მეთვალყურეობაan observation post / plane სამეთვალყურეო ადგილი // სადაზვერვო თვითმფრინავი3 შემჩნევა4 შენიშვნაthe critic's observations about the play were not favourable კრიტიკოსის შენიშვნები პიესაზე არაკეთილსასურველი იყოher silly observations during the film irritated me ფილმის ყურებისას მისი სულელური შენიშვნები მაღიზიანებდაobservation / aid post სათვალთვალო პუნქტი // სამედიცინო დახმარების პუნქტი -
5 natural
1 ბუნებრივი, ბუნებისაnatural resources / environment / cause ბუნებრივი რესურსები / გარემო მიზეზიI tried to sound natural ვცდილობდი, ბუნებრივი ტონით მელაპარაკა2 ნატურალური, ნამდვილი●●he is a natural orator ორატორადაა დაბადებული3 ჩვეულებრივიa natural frontier ბუნებრივი მიჯნა / საზღვარიnatural / social sciences საბუნებისმეტყველო / საზოგადოებრივი მეცნიერებანიnatural endowment თანდაყოლილი / თვითნაბადი ნიჭი -
6 observation
ˌɔbzə:ˈveɪʃən
1. сущ.
1) соблюдение( закона, обычаев и т. п.) Syn: observance
2) а) наблюдение empirical observation ≈ эмпирическое наблюдение scientific observation ≈ научное наблюдение The first thing for a boy to learn, after obedience and morality, is a habit of observation. ≈ Первой вещью, которой должен овладеть мальчик, после того как он научился послушанию и основам нравственности, это привычка к наблюдению. keep under observation Syn: notice, remark б) наблюдательность a man of little observation ≈ ненаблюдательный человек в) воен. разведка, наблюдение
3) обыкн. мн. результаты научных наблюдений, наблюдения personal observations ≈ личные наблюдения
4) определение координат по солнцу или другим небесным телам
5) высказывание, замечание astute, keen, penetrating, shrewd observation ≈ мудрое высказывание, точное замечание She made the astute observation that the whole matter had been exaggerated. ≈ Как она тонко заметила, все было преувеличено. make an observation Syn: remark, comment, statement
2. прил. наблюдательный observation post ≈ наблюдательный пункт наблюдение - * of fire (военное) наблюдение за ведением огня - to keep under * держать под наблюдением;
установить слежку - to escape * остаться незамеченным, ускользнуть от наблюдения изучение, наблюдение - * data данные наблюдения - * tower наблюдательная вышка - * platform смотровая площадка - record of * запись результатов наблюдений - * of natural phenomena изучение природных явлений - he was sent to the hospital for * его положили в больницу для( клинического) исследования( морское) наблюдение, обсервация наблюдательность - a man of keen * очень наблюдательный человек сведения, полученные путем наблюдений;
результаты наблюдений;
данные изучения или исследования - *s on the habits of ants наблюдения за поведением муравьев - have your *s led to any new discoveries? привели ли ваши наблюдения к каким-нибудь новым открытиям? замечание, высказывание - a very childish * совершенно наивное замечание - to make an * on smth. сделать замечание по поводу чего-л. - he didn't make a single * during the whole dinner он просидел весь обед молча соблюдение (правил, обычаев) - * of laws соблюдение законов измерение высоты или азимута небесного тела (в навигации) (военное) ближняя разведка ~ наблюдение;
to keep under observation держать под наблюдением;
he was sent to hospital for observation его положили в больницу для клинического исследования ~ наблюдение;
to keep under observation держать под наблюдением;
he was sent to hospital for observation его положили в больницу для клинического исследования ~ замечание, высказывание;
to make an observation сделать замечание ~ наблюдательность;
a man of little observation ненаблюдательный человек mental ~ психиатрическое освидетельствование observation высказывание ~ замечание, высказывание;
to make an observation сделать замечание ~ замечание ~ измерение ~ изучение ~ наблюдательность;
a man of little observation ненаблюдательный человек ~ наблюдение ~ наблюдение;
to keep under observation держать под наблюдением;
he was sent to hospital for observation его положили в больницу для клинического исследования ~ определение координат по высоте солнца ~ (обыкн. pl) результаты научных наблюдений ~ соблюдение (законов, правил и т. п.) ~ экспериментальное определение ~ attr. наблюдательный ~ car вагон с большими окнами (для туристов) ~ car ж.-д. служебный вагон для проверки состояния пути;
observation satellite воен. разведывательный спутник ~ car ж.-д. служебный вагон для проверки состояния пути;
observation satellite воен. разведывательный спутник ~ station( или point) воен. наблюдательный пункт random ~ случайное наблюдение statistical ~ статистическое наблюдение weighted ~ взвешенное наблюдениеБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > observation
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7 изучение природных явлений
General subject: observancy of natural phenomena, observation of natural phenomenaУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > изучение природных явлений
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8 ауспиции
Religion: augury (Prophetic divining of the future by observation of natural phenomena), auspices (Observation by an augur of the flight and feeding of birds to discover omens), auspicium -
9 augury
['ɔːgjʊrɪ]1) Общая лексика: гадание, предзнаменование, предсказание, предчувствие, пророческое предсказание будущего( напр. по природным явлениям, поведению животных и птиц)2) Религия: предсказание авгура, (Prophetic divining of the future by observation of natural phenomena) ауспиции -
10 Psychology
We come therefore now to that knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which is the knowledge of ourselves; which deserveth the more accurate handling, by how much it toucheth us more nearly. This knowledge, as it is the end and term of natural philosophy in the intention of man, so notwithstanding it is but a portion of natural philosophy in the continent of nature.... [W]e proceed to human philosophy or Humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate, or distributively; the other congregate, or in society. So as Human philosophy is either Simple and Particular, or Conjugate and Civil. Humanity Particular consisteth of the same parts whereof man consisteth; that is, of knowledges which respect the Body, and of knowledges that respect the Mind... how the one discloseth the other and how the one worketh upon the other... [:] the one is honored with the inquiry of Aristotle, and the other of Hippocrates. (Bacon, 1878, pp. 236-237)The claims of Psychology to rank as a distinct science are... not smaller but greater than those of any other science. If its phenomena are contemplated objectively, merely as nervo-muscular adjustments by which the higher organisms from moment to moment adapt their actions to environing co-existences and sequences, its degree of specialty, even then, entitles it to a separate place. The moment the element of feeling, or consciousness, is used to interpret nervo-muscular adjustments as thus exhibited in the living beings around, objective Psychology acquires an additional, and quite exceptional, distinction. (Spencer, 1896, p. 141)Kant once declared that psychology was incapable of ever raising itself to the rank of an exact natural science. The reasons that he gives... have often been repeated in later times. In the first place, Kant says, psychology cannot become an exact science because mathematics is inapplicable to the phenomena of the internal sense; the pure internal perception, in which mental phenomena must be constructed,-time,-has but one dimension. In the second place, however, it cannot even become an experimental science, because in it the manifold of internal observation cannot be arbitrarily varied,-still less, another thinking subject be submitted to one's experiments, comformably to the end in view; moreover, the very fact of observation means alteration of the observed object. (Wundt, 1904, p. 6)It is [Gustav] Fechner's service to have found and followed the true way; to have shown us how a "mathematical psychology" may, within certain limits, be realized in practice.... He was the first to show how Herbart's idea of an "exact psychology" might be turned to practical account. (Wundt, 1904, pp. 6-7)"Mind," "intellect," "reason," "understanding," etc. are concepts... that existed before the advent of any scientific psychology. The fact that the naive consciousness always and everywhere points to internal experience as a special source of knowledge, may, therefore, be accepted for the moment as sufficient testimony to the rights of psychology as science.... "Mind," will accordingly be the subject, to which we attribute all the separate facts of internal observation as predicates. The subject itself is determined p. 17) wholly and exclusively by its predicates. (Wundt, 1904,The study of animal psychology may be approached from two different points of view. We may set out from the notion of a kind of comparative physiology of mind, a universal history of the development of mental life in the organic world. Or we may make human psychology the principal object of investigation. Then, the expressions of mental life in animals will be taken into account only so far as they throw light upon the evolution of consciousness in man.... Human psychology... may confine itself altogether to man, and generally has done so to far too great an extent. There are plenty of psychological text-books from which you would hardly gather that there was any other conscious life than the human. (Wundt, 1907, pp. 340-341)The Behaviorist began his own formulation of the problem of psychology by sweeping aside all medieval conceptions. He dropped from his scientific vocabulary all subjective terms such as sensation, perception, image, desire, purpose, and even thinking and emotion as they were subjectively defined. (Watson, 1930, pp. 5-6)According to the medieval classification of the sciences, psychology is merely a chapter of special physics, although the most important chapter; for man is a microcosm; he is the central figure of the universe. (deWulf, 1956, p. 125)At the beginning of this century the prevailing thesis in psychology was Associationism.... Behavior proceeded by the stream of associations: each association produced its successors, and acquired new attachments with the sensations arriving from the environment.In the first decade of the century a reaction developed to this doctrine through the work of the Wurzburg school. Rejecting the notion of a completely self-determining stream of associations, it introduced the task ( Aufgabe) as a necessary factor in describing the process of thinking. The task gave direction to thought. A noteworthy innovation of the Wurzburg school was the use of systematic introspection to shed light on the thinking process and the contents of consciousness. The result was a blend of mechanics and phenomenalism, which gave rise in turn to two divergent antitheses, Behaviorism and the Gestalt movement. The behavioristic reaction insisted that introspection was a highly unstable, subjective procedure.... Behaviorism reformulated the task of psychology as one of explaining the response of organisms as a function of the stimuli impinging upon them and measuring both objectively. However, Behaviorism accepted, and indeed reinforced, the mechanistic assumption that the connections between stimulus and response were formed and maintained as simple, determinate functions of the environment.The Gestalt reaction took an opposite turn. It rejected the mechanistic nature of the associationist doctrine but maintained the value of phenomenal observation. In many ways it continued the Wurzburg school's insistence that thinking was more than association-thinking has direction given to it by the task or by the set of the subject. Gestalt psychology elaborated this doctrine in genuinely new ways in terms of holistic principles of organization.Today psychology lives in a state of relatively stable tension between the poles of Behaviorism and Gestalt psychology.... (Newell & Simon, 1963, pp. 279-280)As I examine the fate of our oppositions, looking at those already in existence as guide to how they fare and shape the course of science, it seems to me that clarity is never achieved. Matters simply become muddier and muddier as we go down through time. Thus, far from providing the rungs of a ladder by which psychology gradually climbs to clarity, this form of conceptual structure leads rather to an ever increasing pile of issues, which we weary of or become diverted from, but never really settle. (Newell, 1973b, pp. 288-289)The subject matter of psychology is as old as reflection. Its broad practical aims are as dated as human societies. Human beings, in any period, have not been indifferent to the validity of their knowledge, unconcerned with the causes of their behavior or that of their prey and predators. Our distant ancestors, no less than we, wrestled with the problems of social organization, child rearing, competition, authority, individual differences, personal safety. Solving these problems required insights-no matter how untutored-into the psychological dimensions of life. Thus, if we are to follow the convention of treating psychology as a young discipline, we must have in mind something other than its subject matter. We must mean that it is young in the sense that physics was young at the time of Archimedes or in the sense that geometry was "founded" by Euclid and "fathered" by Thales. Sailing vessels were launched long before Archimedes discovered the laws of bouyancy [ sic], and pillars of identical circumference were constructed before anyone knew that C IID. We do not consider the ship builders and stone cutters of antiquity physicists and geometers. Nor were the ancient cave dwellers psychologists merely because they rewarded the good conduct of their children. The archives of folk wisdom contain a remarkable collection of achievements, but craft-no matter how perfected-is not science, nor is a litany of successful accidents a discipline. If psychology is young, it is young as a scientific discipline but it is far from clear that psychology has attained this status. (Robinson, 1986, p. 12)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Psychology
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11 Memory
To what extent can we lump together what goes on when you try to recall: (1) your name; (2) how you kick a football; and (3) the present location of your car keys? If we use introspective evidence as a guide, the first seems an immediate automatic response. The second may require constructive internal replay prior to our being able to produce a verbal description. The third... quite likely involves complex operational responses under the control of some general strategy system. Is any unitary search process, with a single set of characteristics and inputoutput relations, likely to cover all these cases? (Reitman, 1970, p. 485)[Semantic memory] Is a mental thesaurus, organized knowledge a person possesses about words and other verbal symbols, their meanings and referents, about relations among them, and about rules, formulas, and algorithms for the manipulation of these symbols, concepts, and relations. Semantic memory does not register perceptible properties of inputs, but rather cognitive referents of input signals. (Tulving, 1972, p. 386)The mnemonic code, far from being fixed and unchangeable, is structured and restructured along with general development. Such a restructuring of the code takes place in close dependence on the schemes of intelligence. The clearest indication of this is the observation of different types of memory organisation in accordance with the age level of a child so that a longer interval of retention without any new presentation, far from causing a deterioration of memory, may actually improve it. (Piaget & Inhelder, 1973, p. 36)4) The Logic of Some Memory Theorization Is of Dubious Worth in the History of PsychologyIf a cue was effective in memory retrieval, then one could infer it was encoded; if a cue was not effective, then it was not encoded. The logic of this theorization is "heads I win, tails you lose" and is of dubious worth in the history of psychology. We might ask how long scientists will puzzle over questions with no answers. (Solso, 1974, p. 28)We have iconic, echoic, active, working, acoustic, articulatory, primary, secondary, episodic, semantic, short-term, intermediate-term, and longterm memories, and these memories contain tags, traces, images, attributes, markers, concepts, cognitive maps, natural-language mediators, kernel sentences, relational rules, nodes, associations, propositions, higher-order memory units, and features. (Eysenck, 1977, p. 4)The problem with the memory metaphor is that storage and retrieval of traces only deals [ sic] with old, previously articulated information. Memory traces can perhaps provide a basis for dealing with the "sameness" of the present experience with previous experiences, but the memory metaphor has no mechanisms for dealing with novel information. (Bransford, McCarrell, Franks & Nitsch, 1977, p. 434)7) The Results of a Hundred Years of the Psychological Study of Memory Are Somewhat DiscouragingThe results of a hundred years of the psychological study of memory are somewhat discouraging. We have established firm empirical generalisations, but most of them are so obvious that every ten-year-old knows them anyway. We have made discoveries, but they are only marginally about memory; in many cases we don't know what to do with them, and wear them out with endless experimental variations. We have an intellectually impressive group of theories, but history offers little confidence that they will provide any meaningful insight into natural behavior. (Neisser, 1978, pp. 12-13)A schema, then is a data structure for representing the generic concepts stored in memory. There are schemata representing our knowledge about all concepts; those underlying objects, situations, events, sequences of events, actions and sequences of actions. A schema contains, as part of its specification, the network of interrelations that is believed to normally hold among the constituents of the concept in question. A schema theory embodies a prototype theory of meaning. That is, inasmuch as a schema underlying a concept stored in memory corresponds to the mean ing of that concept, meanings are encoded in terms of the typical or normal situations or events that instantiate that concept. (Rumelhart, 1980, p. 34)Memory appears to be constrained by a structure, a "syntax," perhaps at quite a low level, but it is free to be variable, deviant, even erratic at a higher level....Like the information system of language, memory can be explained in part by the abstract rules which underlie it, but only in part. The rules provide a basic competence, but they do not fully determine performance. (Campbell, 1982, pp. 228, 229)When people think about the mind, they often liken it to a physical space, with memories and ideas as objects contained within that space. Thus, we speak of ideas being in the dark corners or dim recesses of our minds, and of holding ideas in mind. Ideas may be in the front or back of our minds, or they may be difficult to grasp. With respect to the processes involved in memory, we talk about storing memories, of searching or looking for lost memories, and sometimes of finding them. An examination of common parlance, therefore, suggests that there is general adherence to what might be called the spatial metaphor. The basic assumptions of this metaphor are that memories are treated as objects stored in specific locations within the mind, and the retrieval process involves a search through the mind in order to find specific memories....However, while the spatial metaphor has shown extraordinary longevity, there have been some interesting changes over time in the precise form of analogy used. In particular, technological advances have influenced theoretical conceptualisations.... The original Greek analogies were based on wax tablets and aviaries; these were superseded by analogies involving switchboards, gramophones, tape recorders, libraries, conveyor belts, and underground maps. Most recently, the workings of human memory have been compared to computer functioning... and it has been suggested that the various memory stores found in computers have their counterparts in the human memory system. (Eysenck, 1984, pp. 79-80)Primary memory [as proposed by William James] relates to information that remains in consciousness after it has been perceived, and thus forms part of the psychological present, whereas secondary memory contains information about events that have left consciousness, and are therefore part of the psychological past. (Eysenck, 1984, p. 86)Once psychologists began to study long-term memory per se, they realized it may be divided into two main categories.... Semantic memories have to do with our general knowledge about the working of the world. We know what cars do, what stoves do, what the laws of gravity are, and so on. Episodic memories are largely events that took place at a time and place in our personal history. Remembering specific events about our own actions, about our family, and about our individual past falls into this category. With amnesia or in aging, what dims... is our personal episodic memories, save for those that are especially dear or painful to us. Our knowledge of how the world works remains pretty much intact. (Gazzaniga, 1988, p. 42)The nature of memory... provides a natural starting point for an analysis of thinking. Memory is the repository of many of the beliefs and representations that enter into thinking, and the retrievability of these representations can limit the quality of our thought. (Smith, 1990, p. 1)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Memory
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