Sentences with phrase «fixed type of response»

-- The key drivers may be monotonic, necessitating a variable extent of a fixed type of response; this is true for many aspects of setting design performance criteria and risk margins in engineering guidelines in the face of higher temperatures, and for standards such as concrete corrosion (e.g. [50,51]-RRB-.

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The example with the chickens and raccoons involved a conflict between learning and a fixed action pattern (a type of instinctual behavior: An ethological term for a sequence of responses, usually but not necessarily produced by a releaser, the consistent patterning of which can not be attributed to the operation of an operant chain.

Presumably, in view of the nature of the response, this would be a kind of 1 / e type time constant rather than a fixed period but could some number be put on it, that would remain reasonably constant over the whole period, despite the change in amplitude and rate of growth?