Sentences with phrase «of volitional»

Conceptualizing parental autonomy support: Adolescent perceptions of promotion of independence versus promotion of volitional functioning.

Behavioral analysis of volitional foot placement was tested using a grid - walk behavioral test (Foot Misplacement Apparatus, Columbus Instruments) as previously described [14], [57].

The personal concept of the world and its phenomena then prevalent would seem to weaken this conviction, introducing an element of volitional caprice.

The process of socially - uprooting and re-establishing evokes a sort of volitional paralysis.

Even the cross, which might be used as a metaphor of volitional suffering, has been turned into a tool requiring it.

If consent and affection are the only criteria for marriage, then any kind of volitional relationship qualifies as a marriage, be it polyamorous, polygamous, ``

If consent and affection are the only criteria for marriage, then any kind of volitional relationship qualifies as a marriage, be it polyamorous, polygamous, «monogamish,» or something else.

We can talk about the «power of God to transform lives,» but we are no longer talking about the political power of the state, which by definition refers to instituted social authority which enables the state to force compliance upon its subjects regardless of their volitional relationship to the state's demands.

Not exact matches

Danielle A. Schlosser, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director of the Digital Health Core in the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the NIH - funded Digital Research and Interventions for Volitional Enhancement (DRIVE) lab at UCSF Dr. Schlosser's research program's goal is to design, develop, and investigate neuroscience - informed digital health solutions to improve the lives of people with schizophrenia and depression.

Knowledge of God becomes a volitional matter.

In its volitional aspect, immediate experience is an act of decision, an act of cutting off certain possibilities for response to an immediate situation in the process of actualizing others.

It became a vital part of the doctrine of relational origination, i.e., the active volitional force that propels the wheel of life to turn on and on.

I want to stress again that such precision and multiplicity of rules were designed primarily to take away the volitional impulse.

Craddock, too, in Overhearing the Gospel (1978), endorsed «narrative» sermons — not that narrative should replace logic, or that sermons consist only of stories, but that the sermon has «the scope that ties it to the life of a larger community» and touches «intellectual or emotional or volitional» concerns while «conveying the sense of movement from one place to another» and «thinking alongside the hearers.»

The philosophical tradition has often emphasised the intellectual and volitional centre of the person.

The problem of moral decline is volitional, not cognitive; it has little to do with knowledge.

Volitional control can be established, through biofeedback learning, over processes long believed to be totally subject to the involuntary control of the autonomic nervous system.

If we are volitional creatures by nature, then we must begin to struggle with the concept of choice as more than simply a conscious, «I woke up one day and decided» sort of thing.

He regards it as an inadequacy of the Bultmannian approach that in viewing the Gospel as address, man is viewed simply as a volitional being, called upon to decide and nothing more.

Reflective knowledge and beliefs, however, do increase the effectiveness of elements of the past in shaping the affective - volitional orientation characteristic of one's existence.

The «aesthetic,» in this profound sense, with its expression in appreciation, evaluation, enjoyment or displeasure, and the like, is as much a part of our human experience as the rational and volitional aspects.

Theistic imagery can «suggest patterns and unity in the totality of things» by virtue of «an appeal to personal purpose, volitional power, and moral principle as the ultimate explanatory categories».

Deep - seated and inveterate, sinfulness was now regarded as so essentially a part of human nature that no mere forgiveness of transgressions could salve its evil or volitional amendment undo its harm.

And yet, I am not here speaking of a spiritual, that is, volitional phenomenon, but rather what originates as a pre-volitional movement of the senses.

We easily visualize other orders, a variety of modes for the future, and we deliberate over which direction to commit volitional energy.

Our scientific - critical thinking, our total experience of life, our emotional and volitional ways of reaction, are strongly shaped by our specific Christian presuppositions and Western ways of thought and life.

In its outer limits and sensual shape, this is the result of God's volitional action, since the Being within which we live and move has its shape defined by divine decision.

These are as real in human experience as space and time, and the way contingent future events are sometimes altered by volitional decision makes us unwilling to see that human effort is of no avail.

That said, are we really going to agree with Edward T. Oakes («Philosophy in an Old Key,» December 2000) that someone like Bryan Magee who refuses to love God with all his mind is, in the active, volitional sense of the term, giving glory to God?

He is caught in the talons of a compulsion that determines his behavior from a subconscious level — below the rational or volitional activities of his mind.

Noakes12 recently argued from the data of Baldwin et al13 that when exercise was performed at a constant work rate (thus negating any effect of pacing strategy) to volitional fatigue in either a glycogen - loaded or glycogen - depleted state, performance time was determined by the rate at which the RPE rose from its starting value to a maximal tolerable value.

Students experience autonomy in the classroom, Deci and Ryan explain, when their teachers «maximize a sense of choice and volitional engagement» while minimizing students» feelings of coercion and control.

Baby will have begun to develop volitional or intentional movements and may be frustrated by the strength challenges of this position.

Although babywearing supports and enhances postural and head control, babies need to be belly down to the earth in order for all of the natural postural reflexes to be optimally stimulated and integrated into smooth volitional movements and eventually for crawling.

What's new is that we have been able to use this artificial neuronal connection bypassing the lesion site to restore volitional control of the subject's own paretic arm.

This study demonstrates that artificial neural connections can compensate for interrupted descending pathways and promote volitional control of upper limb movement after damage of neural pathways such as spinal cord injury or stroke.

This allowed the monkey to electrically stimulate the spinal cord through volitionally controlled brain activity and thereby to restore volitional control of the paretic hand.

But for loftier goals, our volitional memory tends to run out of gas.

This unique pattern may offer insights into cognitive dissociations that may be intrinsic to the creative process: the innovative, internally motivated production of novel material (at once rule based and highly structured) that can apparently occur outside of conscious awareness and beyond volitional control.

Priometric exercises are a combination of involuntary reflex followed by rapid volitional muscle contraction.

No form, no feeling, no perception, no volitional formation, and no consciousness implies there is no independent origination of all things, thus no ultimate reality of being.

An analysis of training volumes revealed that those in the T + group completed more repetitions to volitional fatigue than the placebo group.

The first objective was to determine if an acute bout of SMR via a high - pressure foam roller affects volitional and evoked quadriceps muscle force.

TIP provides a new way to look at what is going on behind the school gate, as Susan Craig states: «Traditional explanations of children's disruptive behaviours often emphasise their volitional aspects, suggesting that they occur as a result of bad choices, or intentional defiance... Recent studies of trauma and self and self - regulation provide an explanation.»

Notwithstanding the requirements of this subdivision, participation in professional development outside the regular school day or regularly scheduled working days of the school year shall be volitional for teachers, unless otherwise agreed upon as a term or condition of employment pursuant to collective bargaining under article 14 of the Civil Service Law.

But we also discovered that part of our confidence is volitional: it's something we can control.

See Illinois v. Allen, 397 U.S. 337, 351 - 352 (1970)(separate opinion of Douglas, J.)(«the difficult questions as to what a trial judge should do... with a defendant whose... antics may not be volitional» poses a «perplexing problem which we should not reach except on a clear record»).

The HAPA distinguishes between a motivational and a volitional phase of behavioural change.

Since seatbelt use appears to be one of the most effective measures to reduce injuries in motor vehicle crashes [67], interventions to use seatbelts should be aimed at males and high risk takers in particular, and based on the premise that nonuse is volitional rather than forgetful.

In contrast to this view, mental health professionals practicing in the forensic arena often find evidence of substantial volitional activity on the part of the alienating parent in severe PAS.