Sentences with phrase «as habituated»

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It shows how a behavioural pattern, which in an earlier evolutionary stage emerged only in the actual presence of a certain environmental situation, might, if it was selected as useful over many generations, become habituated to a chreodic developmental pathway which would operate even in the absence of that environmental situation.

(4) This objection smacks to me of the kind of allergy that a people habituated to thinking of science as hostile to its principles can manifest even to legitimate advances.

We are so habituated to conceiving of the imagination as a private act of the human spirit that we now find it almost impossible to conceive of a common act of imagining with.

They can be habituated to different patterns through certain strategies as they get older, but none of these are reliable.

Knowing that our responses to sensory perception and mental representation overlap — for example, the thought of a spider crawling up your leg can induce the same sweat response as the real thing — Vosgerau's team reasoned that thinking about eating food could lead people to habituate to the action itself.

They were less likely to school and swim along with other tadpoles (a tadpole proxy for socialization, which is impaired in autism); they weren't as good at avoiding contact with animated images projected on to the bottom of their petri dishes; they didn't habituate to startling noises (another analog to autism in people); and induced seizures were more frequent and shorter than in normal tadpoles.

Together with Roman Wittig, I co-direct the Tai Chimpanzee Project, Tai National Park, Ivory Coast, which currently has three habituated chimpanzee groups with a fourth under habituation, as well as one habituated sooty mangabey group.

Studies show that coffee induces a modest but noticeable spike in cortisol that levels off as you become habituated to coffee.

The idea is that when classroom instruction includes the frequent use of thinking routines across a range of subjects and contexts, students will become habituated to using these routines as a matter of course.

Avoid parking in a habituated structure at all costs, as a vehicle fire can easily spread to the structure.

These cats grew more and more habituated to people, and soon began to, as every cat lover knows, domesticate themselves.

Care must be taken to ensure that the dog feels safe as he learns to gradually habituate to the scary thing.

While playing these sounds in a shelter is not likely to have a lasting impact (as playing any sound over time with no paired stimuli is likely to be quickly habituated to), Dr. Simonet's data clearly shows that huffing, or laughing, is an important vocalization for our canine companions.

In contrast to the subadult I encountered, other bears at Brooks Camp, like 410, appear to be very tolerant of people and are often described as human - habituated.

The monkey lost one hand in a hunter's snare but is now raising offspring as part of a habituated colony in a preserve.

When bears get habituated to people inevitably there is a threatening conflict, and the bear winds up (ultimately) as the loser.

And easy for the rest of us to habituate to repetitive catastrophe as though it were simply the natural order.

But the pencils used in elementary school typically do have erasers on the back — for as long as they last — so kids might end up spinning the Pencil around a few times before habituating themselves to nothing being there.

It is highly recommended that new parents don't habituate their kids to sleeping with them, as it becomes a difficult habit to break.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been shown to be effective in treating depressive symptoms among adolescents (Asarnow et al. 2001; Crocker et al. 2013) and it can be used to target the negative expectations and habituated avoidance behavior as well as the social problem behavior (Asarnow et al. 2001).

I am well aware of the human condition and it's inherent bent toward chasing more and better assets (food, clothing, shelter, not to mention showboating stuff etc., that all of the foregoing items nowadays require more and more dollars to purchase) in times of need as well as during good times, because simply put, that distant need in our brains becomes habituated.