An investigation of how people of different age, sex, and temperament estimate the world.
Results of a study on 167 subjects demonstrated that the basic semantic structure of consciousness is associated with a person's temperament, age, and sex. Concrete particularities of estimations and structure of the semantic space depend upon these biologically based characteristics. The results suggest the presence of a phenomenon of "projection through capacities": when a person registers only those aspects of objects or situation that he can properly react to and deal with in their own behavior.
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McMaster University, Canada. ira@ritchie.cas.mcmaster.ca
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001290:Attitude; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012660:Semantics; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D013694:Temperament / Q000502:physiology*