free association

(noun)

A technique used in psychanalysis in which patients are invited to relate whatever comes into their minds during the analytic session, and to not censor their thoughts.

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(noun)

A technique used in psychoanalysis in which patients are invited to relate whatever comes into their minds during the analytic session and to not censor their thoughts.

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Examples of free association in the following topics:

  • Standard Free Energy Changes

    • The standard Gibbs Free Energy is calculated using the free energy of formation of each component of a reaction at standard pressure.
    • The standard Gibbs free energy of the reaction can also be determined according to:
    • As with standard heats of formation, the standard free energy of a substance represents the free energy change associated with the formation of the substance from the elements in their most stable forms as they exist under the standard conditions of 1 atm pressure and 298K.
    • Standard Gibbs free energies of formation are normally found directly from tables.
    • Calculate the change in standard free energy for a particular reaction.

  • Free Energy

    • Free energy, called Gibbs free energy (G), is usable energy or energy that is available to do work.
    • Since chemical reactions release energy when energy-storing bonds are broken, how is the energy associated with chemical reactions quantified and expressed?
    • Free energy is called Gibbs free energy (G) after Josiah Willard Gibbs, the scientist who developed the measurement.
    • Gibbs free energy specifically refers to the energy associated with a chemical reaction that is available after accounting for entropy.
    • A negative ∆G also means that the products of the reaction have less free energy than the reactants because they gave off some free energy during the reaction.

  • The MIT / X Window System License

    • This license's basic message is "You are free to use this code however you want. " It is compatible with the GNU GPL, and it is short, simple, and easy to understand:
    • Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaininga copy of this software and associated documentation files (the"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, includingwithout limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and topermit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject tothe following conditions:

  • Introduction to inference for linear regression

    • This video was created by OpenIntro (openintro.org) and provides an overview of the content in Section 7.4 of OpenIntro Statistics, which is a free online statistics textbook with a $10 paperback option on Amazon.
    • This video introduces consideration of the uncertainty associated with the parameter estimates in linear regression.
    • For more details, see Section 7.4 of OpenIntro Statistics, which may be downloaded for free online.

  • Free Energy and Work

    • The Gibbs free energy is the maximum amount of non-expansion work that can be extracted from a closed system.
    • The Gibbs free energy is the maximum amount of non-expansion work that can be extracted from a closed system.
    • The appellation "free energy" for G has led to so much confusion that many scientists now refer to it simply as the "Gibbs energy. " The "free" part of the older name reflects the steam-engine origins of thermodynamics, with its interest in converting heat into work.
    • "Useful" in this case, refers to the work not associated with the expansion of the system.

  • Providing Hosting/Bandwidth

    • It still happens sometimes, usually in cases where the company itself started the project, and is trying to create or keep an association in the public's mind between the project and the company.
    • The most common technique for creating this association is for the company to host the project's resources under the company's domain name, thus getting association through the project's URLs.
    • While this will cause most users to think of the software as having something to do with your company, it can also cause a problem: developers are aware of this associative tendency too, and may not be very comfortable with having the project hosted under your domain unless you're seriously contributing to the project—not just bandwidth and server space, but significant amounts of development time.
    • After all, there are a lot of free places to host these days.
    • So if you want to provide hosting, do so—but if you are actually trying to create a public association between your company and the project, make sure that the level of support you provide is matched to the amount of credit you claim, whether you claim it via URL, banner ads, or some other means.

  • Gas Requirements

    • Some example free-living diazotrophs include: 1) obligate anaerobes that cannot tolerate oxygen even if they are not fixing nitrogen.
    • Often, they respire oxygen as rapidly as it is supplied, keeping the amount of free oxygen low. 3) Aerobes that require oxygen to grow, yet their nitrogenase is still debilitated if exposed to oxygen. 4) Oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria generate oxygen as a by-product of photosynthesis, yet some are able to fix nitrogen as well. 5) And finally, Anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria that do not generate oxygen during photosynthesis as they have only a single photosystem which cannot split water.
    • Some higher plants, and some animals (termites), have formed associations (symbioses) with diazotrophs.
    • Examples of those diazotrophs include: rhizobia that associate with legumes, plants of the Fabaceae family, frankias, and cyanobacteria that associate with fungi as lichens, with liverworts, with a fern, and with a cycad.

  • The Capital Asset Pricing Model

    • The current risk-free rate is 5%.
    • Can lend and borrow unlimited amounts under the risk-free rate of interest.
    • Further, the model assumes that past returns will effectively predict the future risk associated with a given security.
    • The expected rate of return = the rate of return for a risk-free asset + beta* (the rate of return of the market - the risk-free rate).
    • The return of the market minus the risk-free rate is also known as the risk premium.

  • Classical Liberalism

    • Classical liberalism is a political philosophy committed to limited government, the rule of law, individual liberties, and free markets.
    • These liberties include freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets.
    • It was an intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution and the problems associated with urbanization.
    • Hence, classical liberals believed that individuals should be free to pursue their self-interest without societal control or restraint.
    • Classical liberalism determined that individuals should be free to obtain work from the highest-paying employers.

  • Psychology of Purchasing

    • It posited that behavioral tendencies are determined by immediate associations between various environmental stimuli and the degree of pleasure or pain that follows.
    • Red is associated with energy, and creates the feeling of urgency (think clearance sale signs) while black is associated with sleek and powerful (think luxury goods).
    • The stimuli were held to exert influence in proportion to their prior repetition or to the previous intensity of their associated pain or pleasure.
    • The term is often associated with criticisms of consumption starting with Thorstein Veblen.
    • In an abstract sense, it is the belief that the free choice of consumers should dictate the economic structure of a society (cf.