Sentences with phrase «behavior patterns which»

This psychotherapy work is personally designed for you to make positive change in relationships, behavior patterns which are not working well for you, and self - esteem.

Suppose further that he is caught ten years later, but it turns out that he has reformed his previous behavior patterns which had manifested themselves in his criminal act.

So far I have argued three points: that persons engage in behavior patterns which can be characterized as purposive, i. e., as exhibiting a structure of aims, values, and methods of attainment; that individuals and institutions are interrelated, with each side influencing and being influenced by the purposes and activities of the other, although with neither being in any way reducible to or explicable solely in terms of the other; and that the institutional pole in this interaction shares with the individual as its opposite those characteristics that define its behavioral patterns as purposive.

Not exact matches

Earlier that year, in July 2015, Splunk completed a $ 190 million acquisition of Caspida, a cybersecurity firm that sold user behavior analytics tools, which parse large data sets for patterns and anomalies.

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

In issue 22 I moved on to the «Strange Behavior of Gold Investors from Monday to Thursday», which was followed by an examination of the associated pattern in silver a week later.

The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

Thus, a group like the Benthamite Radicals illustrates one potential pattern of relations among the several institutions to which it adheres, and its own dynamics as a group are illustrated by the behavior of its individual members.

As inter-personal communication flows become patterned over time, a communication structure (or network) emerges, which is relatively stable and predictive of future human behavior (6)

Because we think that we have rejected asceticism, we do not recognize the extent to which behavior patterns based on the first model are operative in contemporary life.

There are all sorts of reasons one might want to condemn such behavior, which represented at least one common pattern of male homosexual behavior Paul would have encountered in his culture — that it involved young boys, that it was not a matter of mutual pleasure, that it was a way of expressing one partner's superiority over the other, and soon — while perhaps not condemning some of the different forms homosexual activity takes in our culture.

The creation of an atmosphere in which personal feelings can be discussed at the moment that they are aroused by characteristic behavior patterns is a major concern, so that the group gains increasing freedom in dealing with its own habitual operations.

What is most distinctive about us as an animal species is that all of our vital functions have been qualified and transformed by patterns of behavior we have learned from the culture into which we were born.

By morality (literally, the customs or mores) is meant the patterns of behavior which are deemed by a society to be ideal or at the least permissible.

Ensuing generations learned the new pattern of behavior, which spread from England to the tits of continental Europe.

I don't know about you, but I would believe the people who study the human mind, thoughts, and behavior (i.e. psychologists and sociologists), over someone who says there's some spooky external agent that no one can possibly verify the existence of, and which has no consistent pattern of action with which to use as evidence for verification.

«Works» is a new pattern of behavior — a new set of choices replacing the old — which will bear fruit if done in faith and humility.

The Catholic (or Christian) psychiatrist is easily caught in a bind if he or she tries to adhere to the moral teachings of his or her religion and to apply these teachings when treating patients, for any psychiatrist is also expected to keep abreast of medical knowledge, which now teaches that homosexuality is a deeply ingrained pattern of behavior that is probably established by the age of five years.

Berne's second major concept is that of ego - states; he says that our behavior patterns, with their associated feelings, are «a limited repertoire... which are psychological realities... [the products of] the human brain... are organized and stored in the form of ego - states.»

I'm afraid that I am following a personal pattern of behavior in which I set the bar too high for others (and myself), and then get upset when others just do what comes natural as human beings.

Indeed, in a culture in which this is the norm, the need may be more for helping young people develop patterns of responsible sexual behavior at this stage of their lives than simply condemning all such activity equally.

When death strikes a family circle, there are socially prescribed patterns of behavior and feeling which help the persons involved cope with the crisis.

As Justin investigated these testimonies further, he learned that most followed a pattern in which the gay man developed attractions to men during puberty, acted on those feelings at some point (usually destructively, with anonymous sex, drugs, and other addictions), found that life to be unfulfilling, reconnected with Jesus, and walked away from their past behaviors.

A view of the world which regards it as a finished product has little relation to the world as the Bible sees it; while a world that is nothing but a complicated mechanism, like a machine which grinds along engaged in nothing but repeating standard patterns of behavior, is not the world of movement and change of which the Scriptures speak.

In the field of psychology, too, it is interesting to note that Professor D.S. Browning of Chicago (especially in his «Psychological and Ontological Perspectives,» which appeared in the Chicago Journal of Religion in October 1965) surveyed the dynamic and gestalt psychologies, along with the so - called depth psychology of the psychoanalytic school, to show a convergence upon a view of human behavior and human self - awareness that is similar to the organic pattern stressed in process thought.

But if we are to find a religious system which can not be outdated or outgrown, from which the acids of modernity can only remove accretions and encrustations, a religion which properly practiced produces the highest forms of human behavior, and offers both supernatural pattern and spiritual power beyond human endeavor, then I believe we shall have to take a fresh look at Christianity.

Or, to put it another way, habits, as sedimented patterns of behavior, offer spontaneity the permanence it needs for a continued and sustained existence, in the sense that this permanence establishes the perspective on the world which is my bodily motility and gives it a temporal continuity.

In the complete change of religious climate after Constantine most of the new patterns of priestly behavior and pastoral rule which were to prevail for a millennium in both Eastern and Western Catholicism until challenged by Protestantism were laid down in the period between the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

In the complete change of religious climate most of the new patterns of priestly behavior and pastoral rule which were to prevail for a millennium in both Eastern and Western Catholicism until challenged by Protestantism were laid down in the period between the Council of Arles in 314 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

«14 Miller's polytheism springs from a psychology in which a number of mythological figures populate a collective unconscious that patterns the behavior of both individuals and their societies.

Everybody makes mistakes and no judgement but what we see here is a pattern of behavior, in which case it is likely to continue.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

Unless human beings become conscious of the primal wounding that is generating their behavior (which is often inter-generational), and unless they find ways to come to resolution, the patterns are likely to recapitulate and get passed on to the next generation.

According to Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., psychiatrist and leading expert on trauma and how it affects the brain, as many as 80 % of abused and neglected infants and children develop disorganized / disoriented attachment relationships, which are expressed as unpredictable approach and avoidance patterns towards mother, the inability to accept comfort from caregivers, rage at attachment figures, and pathological self - regulatory behaviors.

The main problem is when there is prolonged stress and the child continues to use coping skills which may result in permanent behavior patterns that can be harder to correct as the child grows older, especially if they perceive the strategy as an effective coping skill.

Even better, they've broken us down into conservative and liberal buckets, which is perhaps more straightforward than it sounds, since someone who's a fan of Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney and the American Enterprise Institute is probably fairly conservative (this kind of «sentiment analysis» can be a real pain to automate when you're talking about individual social media posts, but I suspect it gets easier when you can figure in someone's overall pattern of social behavior, as Facebook can).

A team of researchers from the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, led by Sonja Bisch - Knaden, has investigated whether neural activity patterns linked to either feeding or egg - laying behavior can already be observed in the antennal lobe, which is the first processing level of scents in the insect brain.

They also knew the behavior of the troposphere influences the circulation patterns of the oceans, which, in turn, drive climate.

A remarkable yet little - known species of octopus is once again exciting the cephalopod community with its surprisingly social behavior, unconventional mating and reproductive habits, unusual predatory behavior, and unique body patterns, most of which have never before been observed among octopuses.

«In many cases, school performance in kindergarten sets the pattern for later academic performance,» said James A. Griffin, Ph.D., deputy chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch at the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which funded the study.

This pattern is more common in some cultures than others, which helps explain why some cultures have more aggressive behavior problems in children than other cultures, according to the study.

In addition, there are further scientific questions about the manner in which patterns of maternal care implement in the development of children's brain, endocrine systems, behavior, and relationships.»

«By analyzing different types of social media, search terms, or even blogs, we are able to capture people's thinking, communication patterns, health, beliefs, prejudices, group behaviors — essentially everything that has ever been studied in social and personality psychology,» says James Pennebaker, president of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), which is kicking off its annual conference today in Austin.

Comparison of our Laschamp Excursion paleomagnetic records with other late Quaternary excursion records suggests that there is a group of excursions, which we term class I, which have strikingly similar patterns of field behavior and likely share a common cause as part of the overall core dynamo process.

Frey and Halatek compare this type of behavior to the effect of a cardiac pacemaker, which counteracts arrhythmias by applying electrical impulses to restore the normal pattern of impulse conduction.

Travelling can be extremely dehydrating and play havoc with your sleep pattern which both have a big impact on your health - related behavior.

There was a 7 - day washout period in between each of the breakfast patterns in which all participants returned to their previous «breakfast skipping» behavior.

Although the patterns of behaviors which comprise their code do not differ that significantly between men and women, it is imperative that the messages don't get lost in translation, as this layer of communication goes on silently and subtly, meaning a message can easily go amiss.

There are plenty of things I'm finding wrong with trying to meet people online, which I won't bore you with by going into detail; but there are definitely patterns that emerge (in behavior and in writing style) which I've learned to spot as red flags, and I have caught several scammers and fakes already.

In a perfect world, this entrée to the relations is a pleasant set of behavior patterns, which can be compared with your ability to be creative.