commitment. The experiment is said to have "accelerated the movement to reform mental institutions and to deinstitutionalize as many mental patients as possible"...

The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's...

An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments...

The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a psychological experiment conducted in August 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that...

were some of the first to research the phenomenon. Their experiment specifically tested mental rotation on three-dimensional objects. Each subject was...

extrasensory perception (ESP) or telepathy. In these experiments, a "sender" attempts to mentally transmit an image to a "receiver" who is in a state of...

conduct of a real experiment that would be subsequently performed as a real physical experiment by his students. Physical and mental experimentation could...

evidence of telepathy. A famous experiment in telepathy was recorded by the American author Upton Sinclair in his book Mental Radio which documents Sinclair's...

Mental age is a concept related to intelligence. It looks at how a specific individual, at a specific age, performs intellectually, compared to average...

also known as mental health hospitals, or behavioral health hospitals are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, including...

Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses all aspects...

In modern physics, the double-slit experiment demonstrates that light and matter can satisfy the seemingly incongruous classical definitions for both waves...

substances, and a wide variety of other experiments. Many of these tests are performed on children, the sick, and mentally disabled individuals, often under...

represents many mental objects using variables and rules. Other types of modeling include dynamic systems and stochastic modeling. Animal experiments aid in investigating...

4°20′31″W / 57.605°N 4.342°W / 57.605; -4.342 Culbokie The Utopia Experiment was an experiment by Dylan Evans, set up in 2006 at Netherton Farm, near Culbokie...

Mentalism is a performing art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, appear to demonstrate highly developed mental or intuitive abilities. Performances...

psychology, mentalization is the ability to understand the mental state – of oneself or others – that underlies overt behaviour. Mentalization can be seen...

The Montreal experiments were a series of experiments, initially aimed to treat schizophrenia by changing memories and erasing the patients' thoughts using...

among the sleep research community. It has been claimed that Gardner's experiment demonstrated that extreme sleep deprivation has little effect, other than...

Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. There...

Minnesota Starvation Experiment, also known as the Minnesota Semi-Starvation Experiment, the Minnesota Starvation-Recovery Experiment and the Starvation...

The Belko Experiment is a 2016 American action psychological horror film directed by Greg McLean and written by James Gunn, who also produced the film...

The Michelson–Morley experiment was an attempt to measure the motion of the Earth relative to the luminiferous aether, a supposed medium permeating space...

The Experiment is a 2002 BBC documentary series in which 15 men are randomly selected to be either "prisoner" or guard, contained in a simulated prison...

for about twelve years. Unlike Wundt, Külpe believed experiments were possible to test higher mental processes. In 1883 he wrote Grundriss der Psychologie...

social experiment is a method of psychological or sociological research that observes people's reactions to certain situations or events. The experiment depends...

The mind (adjective form: mental) is that which thinks, imagines, remembers, wills, and senses, or in other words is the set of faculties responsible for...

Calhoun was working at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 1954, he began numerous experiments with rats and mice. During his first tests, he...

reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, and deliberation. But other mental processes, like considering an idea, memory, or imagination, are also often...

A mental model is an internal representation (model) of external reality: that is, a way of representing reality within one's mind. Such models are hypothesized...