A television portrayal, however, may change the
salience of a particular action by demonstrating its effectiveness or ineffectiveness in a specific situation.
A lasting legacy of behaviorism, the field that dominated the study of human and animal behavior in the first part of the 20th century, was the idea that organisms learn optimal behavior by relating the
consequence of a particular action to a specific stimulus that preceded it.
Letting children see and participate in decision - making can be educational, but the
nature of this particular action raises questions about who funded the bus and t - shirts, along with whether or not it is age - appropriate for elementary school children to be expected to sit still and quiet for hours on end.
My overall intentions — what I hope the results turn out to be — is that whatever seems like a finished product, I want that to have a
kind of particular action with the viewer that puts the viewer in affect.
[UPDATE, 3 pm:] In an interview Saturday morning, Bill (I've known him long enough that I can't honestly put in the «Mr.» honorific) explained his focus on the long - term concentration goal, and the
limits of this particular action, which he sees as a beginning — even after 20 years of working on the issue:
Potential inducements are tested to judge whether the «sole or main
purpose of the particular action is to persuade or cause an individual to opt out of or leave their pension scheme, without becoming an active member of another scheme».
con • se • quence noun \ ˈkän (t)- sə - ˌkwen (t) s, - kwən (t) s \ • something that happens as a
result of a particular action or set of conditions • importance or value