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  • 101maudsley's definition of hallucinations and illusions —    In 1887 the British physician and professor of medical jurisprudence Henry Maudsley (1835 1918) defined hallucinations and illusions as follows: By hallucination is meant such a false perception of sense as a person has when he sees, hears,… …

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  • 102optical — adj. Optical is used with these nouns: ↑device, ↑disk, ↑drive, ↑effect, ↑fibre, ↑illusion, ↑instrument, ↑lens, ↑microscope, ↑mouse, ↑sight, ↑system, ↑ …

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  • 103List of cognitive biases — A cognitive bias is a pattern of poor judgment, often triggered by a particular situation. Identifying poor judgment, or more precisely, a deviation in judgment, requires a standard for comparison, i.e. good judgment . In scientific… …

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  • 104theatre — /thee euh teuhr, theeeu /, n. theater. * * * I Building or space in which performances are given before an audience. It contains an auditorium and stage. In ancient Greece, where Western theatre began (5th century BC), theatres were constructed… …

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  • 105Sawing a woman in half — is a generic name for a number of different stage magic tricks in which a person (traditionally a female assistant) is apparently sawn or divided into two or more pieces. Contents 1 History 2 Effects and variations 2.1 The Selbit sawing …

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  • 106motion picture — motion picture, adj. 1. a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion picture projector) in such rapid succession as to… …

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  • 107List of psychology topics — This page aims to list all topics related to psychology. This is so that those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on Related changes in the sidebar. It is also to see the gaps in Wikipedia s coverage of the… …

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  • 108Multimodal integration — Multimodal integration, also known as multisensory integration, is the study of how information from the different sensory modalities, such as sight, sound, touch, smell, self motion and taste, may be integrated by the nervous system. A coherent… …

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  • 109literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 110painting, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present.       Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment (but see also drawing for discussion of depictions in …

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