Sentences with phrase «of social stimuli»

[2] The major concerns of the approach are the processes involved in the perception, judgment, and memory of social stimuli; the effects of social and affective factors on information processing; and the behavioral and interpersonal consequences of cognitive processes.

Laughter in our own species, of course, is triggered by a range of social stimuli and occurs under a wide umbrella of emotions, not always positive.

Not exact matches

Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

Social media and messaging fool the limbic system — the part of the brain responsible for survival and response to emotional stimuli — into rewarding us every time we connect with others online.

The argument is that the Chicago school arose in the context of the social gospel, a movement that had much in common with contemporary political theology and that, under the stimulus of political theology, this school can recover something of what it had lost as well as move forward in new ways.

A community is where «life is lived,» a society is an association in rational action, and the mass is man caught up by stimuli in which there are no real social bonds.12 The idea of the community — the willed entity — is important for the form of the church.13

The re-direction of old desires and substitution for old stimuli has extended not only throughout my sensual life, but into my social and intellectual life as well.

Its heart of compassion is still strong and beating, and there is life in its outer extremities, since it responds reflexively to social stimuli.

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

«We require,» writes Whitehead, «both the advantages of social preservation, and the contrary stimulus of the heterogeneity derived from freedom» (S 17).

«Often I'm asked what my definition of autism is and, of course, there is the standard definition: children who have problems with communicating, repetitive motion, abnormal toy play, social skills, are delayed,» says Dr. Kartzinel, «But really what I look at in a child is how many responses to stimuli the child responds to abnormally.»

Stepping aside from dangerous social factors, such as adult inebriation or adult bedsharing while under the influence of drugs, or infants sleeping alongside disinterested strangers, and ignoring (for the moment) the physical - structural - furniture and bedding aspects of «safe infant sleep» always occurs in the context of, and under the supervision of, a committed, sober adult caregiver who is in a position to respond to infant nutritional needs, crises, and can exchange sensory stimuli all of which represents just what babies depend on for maximum health.

They wasted precious money on social egineering health care and a liberal goodybag (stimulus) instead of trying to help the economy recover.

Ron Paul's insistence on the overreach of government is so great that he calls for the privatization of basic social services, and Rick Perry claims (contrary to all available evidence) that the 2009 stimulus package created «zero jobs.»

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

You need the social infrastructure to act as a kind of stimulus that would create jobs and put money in people's pockets.

«The stimulus that Election Day provides by giving people information, imposing social pressure to encourage them to vote, giving them social rewards from seeing neighbors and friends at a polling place — all the things that happen on a traditional Election Day — tend to be diluted,» said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who worked on the AJPS study.

You need the social infrastructure to act as a kind of stimulus that would create jobs and put money in people's pockets,» he added.

Some of the topics that were covered: Congressional stalemate; Dan Lamb; Middle East; Obamacare / Healthcare; Obama Stimulus; Rep. Maurice Hinchey; Social Security; Unemployment; Veterans.

Catch phrases — many of academic origin (supply and demand, economies of scale, stimulus and response, IQ, schizophrenic, identity crisis, reinforcement, social skills, computer model, the selfish gene, and so on ad infinitum)-- are accepted uncritically by most literate people as representing eternal realities.

Academics should understand that entrepreneurship is not cheap commercialization of universities but rather a stimulus to creativity, social responsibility, and contribution to know - how and practical innovation.

Now, a preclinical study, from the lab of Olivier Berton, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with Sheryl Beck, PhD, a professor in the department of Anesthesiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, found that bullying and other social stresses triggered symptoms of depression in mice by activating GABA neurons, in a never - before - seen direct relationship between social stimuli and this neural circuitry.

ESDM is the first early intervention for toddlers with ASD to undergo controlled clinical study of intensive early intervention and has demonstrated both improvement of social skills and brain responses to social stimuli.

The proximity of the two FADs means that external stimuli, such as the zone's richness, can be considered as similar under each FAD, highlighting social behaviour on the part of the tuna.

When scientists studying behaviour considered animals to be little more than stimulus - bound and instinct - wired robots, to be accused of anthropomorphism was a social calamity.

Altogether, these tests suggest that the electrical fields that build up on bees due to their flight or movement are stimuli that could be used in social communication, the researchers report online this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Lead author Masahiro Imafuku adds that a lack of interest in social stimuli — for instance, another person — could be an early sign for whether preterm infants are following a path toward atypical social development.

The team captured video of five social species — ants, fish, frogs, chickens, and humans — under three sets of conditions — natural motion, and the presence of one and two stimuli — over 10 days.

In mouse models of ASD, symptoms include an imbalance between «on» and «off» neural signaling in the brain's neocortex, altered responses to sensory stimuli and impaired social behavior.

High firing rates could also impair the ability of the brain to decode sensory stimuli, by causing an overwhelming response to even simple sensory stimuli; that could lead to autism and the withdrawal from social interactions.

We reasoned that insufficiently engaging stimuli would be likely to evoke mind wandering, which would likely involve idiosyncratic thoughts unrelated to the experiment, and thus would introduce unwanted noise into estimates of inter-subject correlations and their relationships to social distance.

We are currently trying to identify the membrane receptors that mediate rapid effects of androgens and estrogens on behavioral and physiological processes related to courtship in goldfish, as well as to determine if these steroids rapidly affect early stages of sensory processing in ways that amplify neural responses to social stimuli.

The fMRI results (event - related design) show that chemosensory anxiety signals activate brain areas involved in the processing of social emotional stimuli (fusiform gyrus), and in the regulation of empathic feelings (insula, precuneus, cingulate cortex).

The remaining possibility is that food cravings develop due to the consistent association of certain foods with particular stimuli or social contexts (special occasions).

found that Philip Morris identified a female market niche, the feminist values of individuals in that niche, and the stimuli to which they respond as they attempt to fill their needs.As women's needs change with age and over time, advertisements were developed to reflect the needs encountered at different stages in women's lives.Cigarette brands for younger women stressed female camaraderie, self confidence, freedom, and independence; cigarette brands for older women addressed needs for pleasure, relaxation, social acceptability, and escape from daily stresses.

One - third fairy tale (literally), one - third musical and one - third social commentary on the nature of love, its weird visuals and eclectic songbook will make adults feel like they've consumed some crazy psychedelic drug; however, younger viewers may find its colorful and song - heavy stimuli generally entertaining.

Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Speeches that are used as a stimulus: - Emma Watson - Winston Churchill - Queen Elizabeth I - George W Bush - Napoleon (Animal Farm) Students will practice writing speeches using the following topics: - increase in legal driving age - importance of mobile phones - social media Students will develop the following skills: - speech writing using the 6 part structure - persuasive writing - speaking and listening - developing effective openings

Throughout this scheme of work pupils will be expected to draw links from the «Cog» stimuli to the wider social issue of «Friendship».

Joanne Weiss, who is now an «independent education consultant,» writes at the Stanford Social Innovation Review that the RttT grant program, funded through President Obama's 2009 stimulus bill in the name of helping low - income, poor - performing schools, «offers lessons in high - impact grantmaking that are applicable not only in education but also in other fields.»

I discuss these ideas in greater detail in Money, Blood and Revolution where I also explain how the circulatory growth model can be used to understand why the excessive use of monetary stimulus — both through low rates and quantitative easing — leads directly to: structurally low economic growth, higher social inequality, deflationary pressures, high government deficits and an inevitable pressure for higher taxation.

Although developmental problems can occur even under the care of their birth mother, without the watchful eye and gentle paw of their feline mom, orphaned kittens are more susceptible to being fearful and aggressive toward people and other cats, more sensitive to novel stimuli, poor learning and deficient social and parenting skills.8, 9 These effects can be lessened with another cat in the household10 and, most importantly, a consistent regime of touch and socialization.

«It is generally accepted that dogs go through a sensitive period, the socialisation period, during which social experiences and stimuli have a greater effect on the development of their temperament and behaviour than if they occur in later life,» write the authors.

The researchers recorded the amount of time spent by each cat interacting with each stimuli and found that although there was «clear individual variability in cat preferences, social interaction with humans was the most - preferred stimulus category for the majority of cats, followed by food.

During this period they learn about their environment and if during this time they are not exposed to a variety of people, other animals, social situations, noises and different stimuli they will often be fearful, anxious or aggressive later in life.

Through their research, the study authors presented pet cats and shelter cats with four categories of stimuli: human social interaction, food, toy, and scent.

Influence of morning maternal care on the behavioural responses of 8 - week - old Beagle puppies to new environmental and social stimuli

«It is argued that through the process of social learning theory (a theoretical framework in which criminal behaviour is learned) that some offenders will gain positive stimuli from engaging in animal cruelty which may lead to aggression towards humans — this is known as the «graduation hypothesis».

I usually say something along the lines of: A novel environment, tons of stimuli, and lack of social interaction are among the factors that cause dogs stress when entering a shelter.

Behavioural inhibition (BI), which is a human temperament style characterized by avoidance of novel stimuli (social and non-social), withdrawal and restraint, associates with certain types of OCD (checking, doubting, obsessing, neutralizing and hoarding)[62].

In their review of the behavioural testing methodology used in over 30 studies, Diederich and Giffroy [22] found a widespread lack of standardisation for most parameters: age of testing; site of testing (indoor / outdoor); social stimuli used (caged dogs, free - range dogs); and, especially, environmental stimuli used.