Sentences with phrase «novel social situation»

Testing vocal learning ability in social mammals usually requires observing the animal in a novel social situation, one that might stimulate them to communicate in new ways.

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Thus a complex structured society provides the requisite environment for heightened satisfaction by some members of the society; and in turn the emergence of novelty enables that society to make thoughtful adjustments of its social structure to meet novel situations.

Setting aside intentional faking, there's clearly a difference between thinking of oneself as having strong self - management skills or a high level of social awareness and actually being able to demonstrate those capacities in one's daily life, including in novel situations and environments.

, I would recommend it to readers who like British novels and who enjoy reading about social and moral situations.

Isolated puppies exhibit poor learning and problem - solving abilities and are extremely hyperactive or rigidly inhibited, are emotionally over-reactive and unable to encounter novel social or environmental situations without extreme fear and avoidance, and are socially and sexually incapacitated.»

A temperamental disposition toward the avoidance of novel and uncertain situations together with a set of behaviors that indicate shyness and discomfort in social interactions are comprehensively named childhood shyness, or behavioral inhibition (BI).14 Children with high indexes of shyness - BI are at a heightened risk of developing anxiety disorders, in particular social phobia, 15 and subjects who fall within the BI — social phobia developmental continuum show specific patterns of neurophysiologic responses to pictures of facial expressions.