In response to this second worry, Yourgrau would deny that life is an essential attribute of persons.
Second, together with the reasonable assumption that life is an essential attribute of persons, Yourgrau's view implies that it is impossible for any merely possible objects to be people.
Suppose we could construct a machine, the HAL 1.01, with (nearly) all of the psychological attributes of persons: would HAL 1.01 be alive?
Attributes of persons with an ALI were compared in the cycles before and after their injury (table 1).
IRT is based on a mathematical model that, for each item on a test, regresses the person's response to the item on a latent score that represents the attribute of the person that the instrument measures.
Reliability is a popular concept that has been celebrated for years as a commendable attribute of a person or an artifact.
They were, essentially, experiencing something known as the halo effect, a phenomenon whereby one positive attribute of a person or thing colors other, unrelated characteristics in a positive light.
Rather than seeing a student's epistemological belief as a stable, fixed attribute of the person, instructors can think of the stance as one of many stances toward biology learning that the student may take, one that is tied to the context in which it was expressed.
"A six-dimensional, dynamic attribute of the person which orients to the future includes: active involvement by the individual, comes from within, is possible, relates to or involves others or a higher being, and relates to meaningful outcomes to the individual" [[ 15]; p.89].
If you're right - because the statement is so obvious, yet also targeted toward an observable attribute of the person- you'll be that much more impressive.
These communication vehicles can be effectively tailored to respond to individual attributes of the person receiving the information.[ 105] Other communication vehicles – e.g., TV, radio, newspapers, movies, websites – are well-suited to providing information on a one-to-many, or mass, basis.
