According to the American Psychological Association ( APA ), there are numerous theories about the origins of a person's sexual orientation, but some believe that " sexual orientation is most likely the result of a complex interaction of environmental, cognitive and biological factors ," and that genetic factors play a " significant role " in determining a person's sexuality.

Rather than focusing on the origins of fetishes, cognitive behavior therapy is built on the empirical study of interventions that alleviate the distress associated with them.

Booth detailed three " Types of Literary Interest " that are " available for technical manipulation in fiction ":( 1 ) Intellectual or cognitive: We have, or can be made to have, strong intellectual curiosity about " the facts ," the true interpretation, the true reasons, the true origins, the true motives, or the truth about life itself.

* Nicergoline — an ergot derivative used to treat senile dementia and other disorders with vascular origins ; it has been found to increase mental agility and enhance clarity and perception ; it decreases vascular resistance and increases arterial blood flow in the brain, improving the utilization of oxygen and glucose by brain cells ; it has been used for more than three decades for the treatment of cognitive, affective, and behavioral disorders of older people.

The term " cognitive neuropsychiatry ” was coined by Prof Hadyn Ellis ( Cardiff University ) in a paper “ The cognitive neuropsychiatric origins of the Capgras delusion ”, presented at the International Symposium on the Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia, Institute of Psychiatry, London ( Coltheart, 2007 ).

), and cognitive disabilities of various origins, affecting memory, attention, developmental " maturity ," problem-solving and logic skills, etc.

His answer falls into two parts: first, these beliefs have in common a counterintuitive attribution of a certain range of properties to certain kinds of quasihuman being ; second, the explanation of their diffusion and persistence is to be sought not in the extensive anthropological literature about the origins and functions of religion, but in recent advances in developmental, cognitive and evolutionary psychology.

His principal research interests are: human mental abilities, especially the origins of cognitive differences, the effects of ageing and medical conditions on mental skills, the impact of cognitive differences on people's lives ; and human personality differences.

Raven's Progressive Matrices and Vocabulary tests were originally developed for use in research into the genetic and environmental origins of “ cognitive ability ”.

Christopher Wise in his book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East ( 2009 ) places Derrida's work in the historical context of his North African origins, an argument first briefly made by Robert J. C. Young in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West ( 1990 ) and extended in his Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction ( 2001 ) where Young surveys the writings of numerous theorists and situates the whole framework of Derrida's thinking in relation to the impact of growing up in the colonial conditions of French Algeria.

He also edited for Penguin two volumes of readings called Systems Thinking ( the initial volume was reprinted six times ), which will long remain a staple resource on the origins and development of open systems thinking throughout the life sciences.

I dare say out loud what the country is thinking, deep inside: it is preferable for this country to be led by a man whose origins belong to his soil ... than by a cunning talmudist.

Regardless of their origins, successful projects are those that generate a sufficient amount of interest and uncertainty to provoke children's creative thinking and problem-solving and are open to different avenues of exploration.

Both satirical and colourful, Rouge Brésil is above all a passionate and exciting exploration of the origins of imperialist thinking.

Yet Flack wonders what to make of aspects of Rosenberg's presentation, such as his apparent " dim view of the place for thinking " and his building on Walter Wink's account of the origins of our way of thinking.

Seven's secretary was Miss Roberta Lincoln ( portrayed by Teri Garr ) and was originally unaware of Seven's origins, thinking she was working for a couple that was researching a new encyclopedia.

This has led to thinking that the song has Jacobite meanings and origins, the " king " being Bonnie Prince Charlie.

The museum's origins can be traced to 1886 with Andrew Carnegie's initial concept: " I am thinking of incorporating with the plan for a library that of an art-gallery in which shall be preserved a record of the progress and development of pictorial art in America ".

In an unusual blend of contemporary evolutionary thinking and pre-Adamism the Vanderbilt University theistic evolutionist and geologist Alexander Winchell argued in his 1878 tract Adamites and Preadamites for the pre-Adamic origins of the human race on the basis that the Negroes were too racially inferior to have developed from the Biblical Adam.

Mitchell has commented on the origins of the song: " I was thinking of Amelia Earhart and addressing it from one solo pilot to another ... sort of reflecting on the cost of being a woman and having something you must do.

Hamlet's Danish origins are a point of contention during Kaine's anti-Denmark campaign, but he bluffs Kaine into thinking he has gathered an army of Daphne Farquitt fans and the Copenhagen-born author herself to save Thursday at a critical moment.

In an unusual blend of contemporary evolutionary thinking and pre-Adamism the theistic evolutionist and geologist Alexander Winchell argued in his 1878 book Adamites and Preadamites for the pre-Adamic origins of the human race on the basis that the Negroes were too racially inferior to have developed from the Biblical Adam.

Bachelard applies the method of phenomenology to architecture basing his analysis not on purported origins ( as was the trend in enlightenment thinking about architecture ) but on lived experience of architecture.

It was unusual for a man of Mackenzie's humble origins to attain such a position in an age which generally offered such opportunity only to the privileged.

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

Simon Frith identifies the origins of the power ballad in the emotional singing of soul artists, particularly Ray Charles and the adaptation of this style by figures such as Eric Burdon, Tom Jones and Joe Cocker to produce slow tempo songs often building to a loud and emotive chorus backed by drums, electric guitars and sometimes choirs.

Crokinole is often believed to be of Mennonite or Amish origins, but there is no factual data to support such a claim.

Topos theory is a form of abstract sheaf theory, with geometric origins, and leads to ideas such as pointless topology.

In the Welsh language who's origins, like Cornish is from the ancient British or Brythonic language line, ' Cist ' is also used for such ancient graves, but in modern use, can also mean a chest, a coffer, a box, or even the boot / trunk of a car.

Methodists and Presbyterians believe their denominations owe their origins to the Apostles and the early church, but do not claim descent from ancient church structures such as the episcopate.

Early origins of popular frozen desserts, such as ice cream, trace back to the Middle Ages when royalty would request fresh ice flavored with honey or a fruit syrup.

Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson admired it saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable ; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode.

Though opposed in the philosophical origins, the practical differences between such positions can sometimes be subtle.

Whereas several figures common to English Country Dance, e. g. arming and the straight hey, are found in the traditional dances and display dances such as morris, ECD's origins rest among the gentry, first at court, then spreading to bourgeois-London, finally moving into country manors around England.

Despite such humble origins, he was accepted into the hugely wealthy court of Charlemagne around 791 or 792.

The endosymbiosis theory attempts to explain the origins of organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts in eukaryotic cells.

Guatemala City also has a sizeable Indigenous population and minority groups such as Germans and other Europeans, Jewish, Asians primarily Chinese and Korean, and many groups of other Latin American origins such as Peruvian, and Colombian amongst others.

Reading, such as reading books, magazines, comics, or newspapers, along with browsing the internet is a common hobby and one that can trace its origins back many hundreds of years.

Nelson defines transclusion as " the same content knowably in more than one place ", setting it apart from more special cases such as the inclusion of content stored in a different location ( which he calls " transdelivery ") or " explicit quotation which remains connected to its origins " ( which he calls " transquotation ").

Rock music in India has its origins in 1960s when international stars such as The Beatles visited India and brought their music with them.

Ibn Taymiyya argued against the shirking of Sharia law, and against practices such as the celebration of Muhammad's birthday or the construction of mosques around the tombs of Sufi sheikhs, believing that these were unacceptable borrowings from Christianity: Many Muslims ' do not even know of the Christian origins of these practices.

The idea that specifically the interdependence between parts would have implications for the origins of living things was raised by writers starting with Pierre Gassendi in the mid 17th century and John Wilkins, who wrote ( citing Galen ), " Now to imagine, that all these things, according to their several kinds, could be brought into this regular frame and order, to which such an infinite number of Intentions are required, without the contrivance of some wise Agent, must needs be irrational in the highest degree.

Regarding the origins of the plot, people who knew Stalin, such as Khrushchev, suggest that Stalin had long harbored negative sentiments toward Jews, and anti-Semitic trends in the Kremlin's policies were further fueled by the exile of Leon Trotsky.

Others, such as Koskenniemi, have argued that none of these humanist and scholastic thinkers can be understood to have founded international law in the modern sense, instead placing its origins in the post-1870 period.

The principle most likely finds its origins in similar concepts, such as Occam's razor, Leonardo da Vinci's " Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ", Mies Van Der Rohe's " Less is more ", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's " It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away ".