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73 relations: Adaptation, Adult, Aggression, Alzheimer's disease, Ambiguity, Amygdala, Anterior cingulate cortex, Ape, Aristotelian ethics, Aristotle, Boredom, Broaden-and-build, Cat, Caudate nucleus, Cognitive dissonance, Complexity, Cortisol, Corvidae, Daniel Berlyne, Desire, Developmental psychology, Dolphin, Dopamine, Elephant, Emotion, Empathy, Epistemic virtue, Epistemology, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Fear, Hippocampus, Infant, Information, Inquiry, Insular cortex, Intensity (physics), Interest (emotion), Intrinsic motivation (artificial intelligence), Jean Piaget, Knowledge, Language, Learning, Memory, Mesolimbic pathway, Meta-emotion, Motivation, Neophile, Neophobia, Netherlands, ... Expand index (23 more) »
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Adaptation
In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.
Adult
An adult is a human or other animal that has reached full growth.
Aggression
Aggression is a behavior aimed at opposing or attacking something or someone.
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia.
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Ambiguity
Ambiguity is the type of meaning in which a phrase, statement, or resolution is not explicitly defined, making for several interpretations; others describe it as a concept or statement that has no real reference.
Amygdala
The amygdala (amygdalae or amygdalas; also corpus amygdaloideum; Latin from Greek, ἀμυγδαλή, amygdalē, 'almond', 'tonsil') is a paired nuclear complex present in the cerebral hemispheres of vertebrates.
Anterior cingulate cortex
In the human brain, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is the frontal part of the cingulate cortex that resembles a "collar" surrounding the frontal part of the corpus callosum.
See Curiosity and Anterior cingulate cortex
Ape
Apes (collectively Hominoidea) are a clade of Old World simians native to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (though they were more widespread in Africa, most of Asia, and Europe in prehistory), which together with its sister group Cercopithecidae form the catarrhine clade, cladistically making them monkeys.
Aristotelian ethics
Aristotle first used the term ethics to name a field of study developed by his predecessors Socrates and Plato which is devoted to the attempt to provide a rational response to the question of how humans should best live. Curiosity and Aristotelian ethics are virtue.
See Curiosity and Aristotelian ethics
Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Boredom
In conventional usage, boredom, ennui, or tedium is an emotion characterized by uninterest in one's surrounding, often caused by a lack of distractions or occupations.
Broaden-and-build
The broaden-and-build theory in positive psychology suggests that positive emotions (such as happiness, and perhaps interest and anticipation) broaden one's awareness and encourage novel, exploratory thoughts and actions.
See Curiosity and Broaden-and-build
Cat
The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.
Caudate nucleus
The caudate nucleus is one of the structures that make up the corpus striatum, which is a component of the basal ganglia in the human brain.
See Curiosity and Caudate nucleus
Cognitive dissonance
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental disturbance people feel when their cognitions and actions are inconsistent or contradictory.
See Curiosity and Cognitive dissonance
Complexity
Complexity characterizes the behavior of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to non-linearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence.
Cortisol
Cortisol is a steroid hormone in the glucocorticoid class of hormones and a stress hormone.
Corvidae
Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers.
Daniel Berlyne
Daniel Ellis Berlyne (April 25, 1924 – November 2, 1976) was a British and Canadian psychologist.
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Desire
Desires are states of mind that are expressed by terms like "wanting", "wishing", "longing" or "craving".
Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives.
See Curiosity and Developmental psychology
Dolphin
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale).
Dopamine
Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is a neuromodulatory molecule that plays several important roles in cells. Curiosity and Dopamine are motivation.
Elephant
Elephants are the largest living land animals.
Emotion
Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.
Empathy
Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. Curiosity and Empathy are virtue.
Epistemic virtue
The epistemic virtues, as identified by virtue epistemologists, reflect their contention that belief is an ethical process, and thus susceptible to intellectual virtue or vice. Curiosity and epistemic virtue are virtue.
See Curiosity and Epistemic virtue
Epistemology
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge.
See Curiosity and Epistemology
Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth.
See Curiosity and Evolutionary biology
Fear
Fear is an intensely unpleasant primal emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat.
Hippocampus
The hippocampus (hippocampi; via Latin from Greek ἱππόκαμπος, 'seahorse') is a major component of the brain of humans and other vertebrates.
Infant
An infant or baby is the very young offspring of human beings.
Information
Information is an abstract concept that refers to something which has the power to inform.
Inquiry
An inquiry (also spelled as enquiry in British English) is any process that has the aim of augmenting knowledge, resolving doubt, or solving a problem.
Insular cortex
The insular cortex (also insula and insular lobe) is a portion of the cerebral cortex folded deep within the lateral sulcus (the fissure separating the temporal lobe from the parietal and frontal lobes) within each hemisphere of the mammalian brain.
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Intensity (physics)
In physics and many other areas of science and engineering the intensity or flux of radiant energy is the power transferred per unit area, where the area is measured on the plane perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the energy.
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Interest (emotion)
Interest is a feeling or emotion that causes attention to focus on an object, event, or process.
See Curiosity and Interest (emotion)
Intrinsic motivation (artificial intelligence)
Intrinsic motivation in the study of artificial intelligence and robotics is a mechanism for enabling artificial agents (including robots) to exhibit inherently rewarding behaviours such as exploration and curiosity, grouped under the same term in the study of psychology.
See Curiosity and Intrinsic motivation (artificial intelligence)
Jean Piaget
Jean William Fritz Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development.
Knowledge
Knowledge is an awareness of facts, a familiarity with individuals and situations, or a practical skill. Curiosity and Knowledge are virtue.
Language
Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.
Learning
Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences.
Memory
Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed.
Mesolimbic pathway
The mesolimbic pathway, sometimes referred to as the reward pathway, is a dopaminergic pathway in the brain.
See Curiosity and Mesolimbic pathway
Meta-emotion
Meta-emotion is "an organized and structured set of emotions and cognitions about the emotions, both one's own emotions and the emotions of others".
See Curiosity and Meta-emotion
Motivation
Motivation is an internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior.
Neophile
Neophile or Neophiliac, a term popularised by author Robert Anton Wilson, is a personality type characterized by a strong affinity for novelty.
Neophobia
Neophobia is the fear of anything new, especially a persistent and abnormal fear.
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Neurodegenerative disease
A neurodegenerative disease is caused by the progressive loss of neurons, in the process known as neurodegeneration.
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Neurotransmitter
A neurotransmitter is a signaling molecule secreted by a neuron to affect another cell across a synapse.
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Novelty
Novelty (derived from Latin word novus for "new") is the quality of being new, or following from that, of being striking, original or unusual.
Nucleus accumbens
The nucleus accumbens (NAc or NAcc; also known as the accumbens nucleus, or formerly as the nucleus accumbens septi, Latin for 'nucleus adjacent to the septum') is a region in the basal forebrain rostral to the preoptic area of the hypothalamus.
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Octopus
An octopus (octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.
Orienting response
The orienting response (OR), also called orienting reflex, is an organism's immediate response to a change in its environment, when that change is not sudden enough to elicit the startle reflex.
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Parahippocampal gyrus
The parahippocampal gyrus (or hippocampal gyrus) is a grey matter cortical region of the brain that surrounds the hippocampus and is part of the limbic system.
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Play (activity)
Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment.
See Curiosity and Play (activity)
Poetics (Aristotle)
Aristotle's Poetics (Περὶ ποιητικῆς Peri poietikês; De Poetica) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
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Precuneus
In neuroanatomy, the precuneus is the portion of the superior parietal lobule on the medial surface of each brain hemisphere.
Psychologist
A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior.
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Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents.
Reward system
The reward system (the mesocorticolimbic circuit) is a group of neural structures responsible for incentive salience (i.e., "wanting"; desire or craving for a reward and motivation), associative learning (primarily positive reinforcement and classical conditioning), and positively-valenced emotions, particularly ones involving pleasure as a core component (e.g., joy, euphoria and ecstasy).
See Curiosity and Reward system
Rodent
Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
Science
Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.
Sense
A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli.
Serotonin
Serotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) is a monoamine neurotransmitter.
Skill
A skill is the learned ability to act with determined results with good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both.
Striatum
The striatum (striata) or corpus striatum is a cluster of interconnected nuclei that make up the largest structure of the subcortical basal ganglia.
Surprise (emotion)
Surprise is a rapid, fleeting, mental and physiological state.
See Curiosity and Surprise (emotion)
Thought
In their most common sense, the terms thought and thinking refer to cognitive processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation.
Uncertainty
Uncertainty or incertitude refers to epistemic situations involving imperfect or unknown information.
Virtue
A virtue (virtus) is a trait of excellence, including traits that may be moral, social, or intellectual.
See also
Problem solving skills
- Analytical skill
- Chain-linked model
- Computational thinking
- Convergent thinking
- Creative leadership
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Debugging
- Deductive reasoning
- Divergent Association Task
- Divergent thinking
- Ideation (creative process)
- Imagination
- Inductive reasoning
- Integrative thinking
- Lateral thinking
- Reason
- Rhetorical reason
- Thinking outside the box
References
Also known as Artificial curiosity, Computational curiosity, Curiosities, Curiosity AI, Curiosity in artificial intelligence, Curiosity-driven artificial intelligence, Curious, Curiousity, Curiousness, Exploratory behavior, Inquisitiveness, Morbid curiosity, Morbid curiousity, Trainwreck Syndrome.