Sentences with phrase «causal theory»

Harsh, inconsistent, or neglectful child - rearing practices are common in families of children and adolescents with oppositional defiant disorder, and these parenting practices play an important role in many causal theories of the disorder.

Back in the early 1980s he and David Kenny anticipated many of today's discussions about the benefits and challenges to developing and testing causal theories via mediation analyses.

We focus on two recent approaches that have great potential for integrating past subtyping approaches and for advancing causal theory.

«Ambient scent contributes to the building of a favorable perception of the mall environment, and indirectly of product quality,» notes Jean - Charles Chebat and Richard Michon in «Impact of ambient odors on mall shoppers» emotions, cognition, and spending: A test of competitive causal theories,» a study that explored how citrus smells influenced customer moods and decisions.

At this stage, young children are developing the ability to create causal theories about how things happen, as evidenced by their perpetual question, «Why?»

While many have recognized the importance of this heterogeneity for developing better causal theories and for developing more effective treatments, there has been little consensus as to the best way to subtype children with CD.

It isn't designed to test causal theories.

In outlining these distinct pathways to antisocial behavior, we have tried to illustrate some key concepts from developmental psychopathology such as equifinality and multifinality, the importance of understanding the interface between normal and abnormal development, and the importance of using multiple levels of analyses to advance causal theories.

But this is an accounting procedure, not a causal theory.

In this way he combines the direct realism of common sense with the causal theory of physiology.

This abrupt turn from a causal theory of consciousness to talk about emergent properties not only leaves the puzzle about causality dangling, it compounds the mystery by evoking still more elementary puzzles about the meaning of emergence and evolution, as well as about how and where to locate sentience in an evolving «physical world.»

when you can tell me how god came about then you will have a point... if you subscribe to the causal theory, then there must have been a cause for god..

He agrees in seeing the mind as a receiver of the objects of perception: like Berkeley's his is a causal theory.

Although Whitehead goes on in later sections of the Enquiry to argue that actually all perceptual objects are delusive (since all perception is belated)(PNK 184), and then to propound an analysis of the transition from appearance to cause which will provide a theory for the connection of delusive perceptual objects with their generating events, it must be emphasized that Whitehead is still in no way advocating a causal theory of perception.

That is the truth in the causal theory of time, and that truth is not endangered should our successes in retrodiction and in prediction match each other, for still causal dependency is an asymmetrical relation.

The term «internal consistency» is used advisedly in order to get away from popularly accepted genetic, causal theories, such as that Buddha rebelled against Brahmanism, therefore Buddhism rejects the caste system.

I, too, found Bohr's version implausible and became obsessed with finding a causal theory.

But none of those causal theories are held as unshakeable truth in the way, say for example, that the movement of crustal plates is, via something described as plate tectonics.

They must, Hanke said, «effectively deal with the flawed «one fiber will kill» and «each and every exposure» causal theories and, most importantly, apply all of the scientifically reliable information concerning mesothelioma risk and asbestos exposure to determine if asbestos is a substantial factor in the cause of the disease for a claimant.»