单词 | apophenia |
释义 | apophenian. 1. Psychiatry. The baseless or irrational attribution of great or revelatory significance to an external event or internal experience, occurring during the development of delusional perception in schizophrenia; (also) the stage of schizophrenia in which this occurs; = apophany n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delusion > types of delusion lycanthropy1584 cynanthropy1594 hob-thrush1658 wolf-madness1663 syphilomania1815 hippanthropy1847 zoanthropy1856 boanthropy1864 megalomania1885 plutomania1890 uranomania1890 micromania1892 delusions of grandeur1909 omnipotence1916 nihilism1927 apophenia1959 apophany1960 sundowner1974 sundowning1978 1959 Amer. Jrnl. Psychotherapy 13 776 The characteristic experience of ‘abnormal significance’ of events or impressions is born. Here the patient behaves as though he experienced ‘revelation’; Conrad names this stage ‘apophenia’. 1983 M. Gelder et al. Oxf. Textbk. Psychiatry i. 19 Conrad..described the delusional experience as having four stages starting from a delusional mood.., leading via the delusional idea which he called apophenia.., to the person's efforts to make sense of the experience by revising his whole view of the world. 2. Psychology. The erroneous perception of patterns or correlations in random or unconnected phenomena, events, and data. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [noun] misthoughtc1300 error1340 vanityc1386 err1509 delirium1599 unsoundnessa1600 misknowing1616 errancy1623 pseudodoxy1651 apophenia1999 1999 R. T. Carroll www.skepdic.com 26 Dec. (Internet Archive Wayback Machine 29 Feb. 2000) In statistics, apophenia is called a Type I error, seeing patterns where none, in fact, exist. 2001 P. Brugger in J. Houran & R. Lange Hauntings & Poltergeists ix. 205/1 The propensity to see connections between seemingly unrelated objects or ideas most closely links psychosis to creativity. Indeed.., apophenia and creativity may even be conceived of as two sides of the same coin. 2012 Psychol. Today July 52/2 Pattern-finding is so central to survival and success that we see patterns everywhere, even in random data—a phenomenon called apophenia. We spot faces in clouds and hear messages in records played backward. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < |
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