Glossary J
Glossary J
- Jean Lamarck (1744 - 1829) : Jean Lamarck proposed that adaptive characteristics acquired during an organism's lifetime were inherited by that organism's offspring. This was the mechanism by which species were transformed.
Please see also Inheritance of acquired characteristics.
- Jean-Martin Charcot (1825 - 1893) : Jean-Martin Charcot concluded that Hysteria was a real disorder, unlike most of the physicians of his day. He theorized the inherited predisposition toward Hysteria could become actualize
Jean-Paul Sartre noted that although human beings strive for rational explanations for existence, they will never find one. He viewed human life as a "futile passion", and his emphasis on human freedom, choice, and responsibility is well known in Existential theory. He openly critized the determinism of Freud and wrote about Existential Psychology
Jeremiah refers to a person who complains continually, has a gloomy attitude, or one who warns about a disastrous future.
The noun "Jeremiah" is after Jeremiah who is a Hebrew prophet during the seventh and sixth centuries BCE who prophesied the fall of the kingdom of Judah and whose writings are collected in the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Lamentations
Jet lag refers to the feeling experienced when the biological clock is not synchronized with its surroundings because of a change in time zones which happens during a plane ride or flight/travel; disruption of biological rhythms caused by travel across time zones