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• Self-awareness — is the concept that one exists as an individual, separate from other people, with private thoughts. It may also include the understanding that other people are similarly self aware.Self consciousness is credited only with the development of… …   Wikipedia

• Self-determination theory — (SDT) is a general theory of human motivation concerned with the development and functioning of personality within social contexts. The theory focuses on the degree to which human behaviors are volitional or self determined that is, the degree to …   Wikipedia

• reward — There are many promises in the NT of a reward not only in this life but also in the world to come ‘a hundredfold now . . . and in the world to come eternal life’ (Mark 10:29, 30); give to the poor, and there is to be treasure in heaven… …   Dictionary of the Bible

• Self-modifying code — In computer science, self modifying code is code that alters its own instructions, intentionally or otherwise, while it is executing.Self modifying code is quite straightforward to write when using assembly language (taking into account the CPU… …   Wikipedia

• self-rewarding — adjective Date: 1740 containing or producing its own reward < virtue is self rewarding > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• self-rewarding — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective : containing or producing its own reward a self rewarding virtue …   Useful english dictionary

• Brain stimulation reward — James Olds was the first to discover that rats will perform arbitrary operant responses to obtain electrical stimulation of some brain regions (e.g. the lateral hypothalamus).Olds J, Milner P. Positive reinforcement produced by electrical… …   Wikipedia

• virtue is its own reward — Cf. OVID Ex Ponto ii. iii. virtutem pretium..esse sui, virtue is its own reward. 1509 A. BARCLAY Ship of Fools 10v Vertue hath no rewarde. 1596 SPENSER Faerie Queene III. xii. Your vertue selfe her owne reward shall breed, Euen immortall praise,… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• My Future Self n' Me — South Park episode Stan s future self tells his story Episode no …   Wikipedia

• To lose one's self — Lose Lose (l[=oo]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lost} (l[o^]st; 115) p. pr. & vb. n. {Losing} (l[=oo]z [i^]ng).] [OE. losien to loose, be lost, lose, AS. losian to become loose; akin to OE. leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, AS. le[ o]san, p. p. loren… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English