Sentences with phrase «own mental operations»

I have tried to show in various ways that the notion of subordinate persons introduces a necessary flexibility into our view of mental operations, without requiring any major revision of Whitehead's conceptual scheme.

There is much empirical evidence for mental operations of high complexity below the level of conscious attention.

The effect of the new method of philosophy instituted by Descartes and Locke was to make human mental operations and their contents the sole object of study, with the rest of nature the «unknown something» behind the veil of appearances.

He considers it implausible to assume that a high - grade mental operation like inference is «required to get from the colored shape to the chair» (S 3).

This point becomes salient for those who would wish to convince us that there is a larger, deeper «reality» than could be produced by mere mental operations.

Although for some purposes the mental pole of the occasions can be ignored, Whitehead says that even the physical world can not be understood without reference to... the complex of mental operations» (PR 366).

We should conceive mental operations as among the factors which make up the constitution of nature.6

And it is evident that mental operations, following principles logically irreducible to bio-chemistry, can impose an even higher order on physical and biological processes without disrupting the causal continuity of the latter.

Here I am using the term «mind» to mean the complex of mental operations involved in the constitution of an actual entity.

Using non-invasive brain imaging, the researchers found that people at - risk for anxiety were less likely to develop the disorder if they had higher activity in a region of the brain responsible for complex mental operations.

As Spelke sees it, these cognitive tools underlie all the more complex skills and knowledge we master as we grow up — spoken languages, number manipulation and other abstract mental operations.

In psychology research, response times may be used to discover which mental operations are more difficult than others, or to measure how uncertain people are about a decision.

«We think that greater variability in brain function in certain regions allows better processing of information, especially during highly demanding memory and reasoning tasks, which require someone to remember information, form associations, or perform abstract mental operations.

These techniques have allowed scientists to investigate mental operations in humans, such as reading or memory, and to link these to activity in particular regions of the brain.

So it matters to spend time on task and repetition until the mental operations become effortless (i.e. automatized).

These verbs, referred to as academic vocabulary, signal the type of mental operations that students are expected to perform.

A heuristic is a mental «shortcut» — an alternative to the use of a more effortful, and more intricate mental operation that might well exceed the time and capacity of most people to exercise in most circumstances.

As a result, as I understand the appellant's contention, those calculations are not mental operations but purely mechanical ones that constitute the various steps in the process disclosed by the invention.

Not exact matches

By using the democratic process in decision - making, the mental health task force practices principles of good mental health in its own operations.

The mental pole originates as the conceptual counterpart of operations in the physical pole.

Recent legislation provides support for construction of community mental health centers and initial operation of new services in them.

Our modern situation seems to indicate quite clearly that the more modern man stresses the integrity and uniqueness of selfhood, the more he facilitates the operation of those psychic forces which tend to undermine mental and emotional stability.

As for the adults who came to us claiming to have discovered their «true» sexual identity and to have heard about sex - change operations, we psychiatrists have been distracted from studying the causes and natures of their mental misdirections by preparing them for surgery and for a life in the other sex.

For 10 years, she was the senior mental health consultant for Operation Head Start in Los Angeles, and she is a frequent lecturer on child development issues.

Every week we are seeing new examples of serious failures of care, unacceptable delays for treatment, cancelled operations, and agonising waiting times for people suffering from mental health problems.

The health committee's report, which was assessing the operation of the Mental Health Act 2007, said there was also «profoundly depressing» evidence for the poor operations of the «deprivation of liberty safeguards» (DOLS) used to protect patients who lack mental capacity.

* Accelerated privatization of the county's mental health operations by farming out a substantial portion to not - for - profit vendors;

Given that we have had to endure and fight against cuts to education, aid to local governments, state operations and we are fighting health care cuts and closures of hospitals like SUNY Downstate or mental health facilities, we need to start talking about how we sustain services that people need, before we consider tax cuts.

Cilento later added, «Given that we have had to endure and fight against cuts to education, aid to local governments, state operations and we are fighting health care cuts and closures of hospitals like SUNY Downstate or mental health facilities, we need to start talking about how we sustain services that people need, before we consider tax cuts.

· In 2014, the jail's Special Housing Unit (a disciplinary block) was reviewed by the New York State Commission of Correction, the oversight agency for jails statewide, and earned a «merited commendation» from the commission, which noted mental health operations in particular.

«Those of us that work day - to - day in dealing with really difficult subjects like with poverty or mental illness or substance abuse can get bogged down in the day - to - day operations,» Hoffman said.

The report focused on emergency response team operations, mental health care, the handling of inmates under the age of 18, disciplinary measures involving removing inmates from the general population and suggested improvements.

Second, a cognitive psychology approach is needed to conduct basic science research on the mental representations and operations that may be uniquely challenged in the investigation of nanomaterials.»

After the operation her physical and mental health improved, but her paralysis remained.

One way to conceptualize these systems is to think of the processes involved in driving a car: the novice needs to rely on controlled processing, requiring focused concentration on a sequence of operations that require mental effort and are easily disrupted by any distractions.

Two prominent anesthesiologists called the idea that operations cause persistent mental declines a fallacy.

«In positive psychology, flow, also known as the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.»

Each year group is broken down in to the 4 operations, identifying mental and written methods and linking to other strands in the curriculum.

Orygen would receive additional funding of $ 13.5 million for the operation of the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health to provide national leadership for youth mental health in research, policy advice and workforce training.

Here is a list of the different lessons in this Year 3 SpringBoard Pack: Lesson 1a: PLACE VALUE AND ORDERING OF NUMBERS TO 100 Lesson 1b: PLACE VALUE AND ORDERING OF NUMBERS TO 100 Lesson 2a: ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FACTS Lesson 2b: ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FACTS Lesson 3a: COUNTING AND ORDERING Lesson 3b: COUNTING AND ORDERING Lesson 4a: DOUBLING AND HALVING NUMBERS Lesson 4b: DOUBLING AND HALVING NUMBERS Lesson 5a: MENTAL CALCULATION STRATEGIES Lesson 5b: MENTAL CALCULATION STRATEGIES Lesson 6a: SUBTRACTION BY COUNTING ON FROM THE SMALLER NUMBER Lesson 6b: SUBTRACTION BY COUNTING ON FROM THE SMALLER NUMBER Lesson 7a: UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLICATION Lesson 7b: UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLICATION Lesson 8a: SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE OPERATION TO SOLVE A PROBLEM Lesson 8b: SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE OPERATION TO SOLVE A PROBLEM Lesson 9a: USING MONEY Lesson 9b: USING MONEY Lesson 10a: READING SCALES Lesson 10b: READING SCALES Do you ever wish there was a simple to use, comprehensive way to boost your Year 3 Numeracy grades?

They have come to the same conclusion as myself, that timestables and four operation mental arithmetic is key and must be automatic before we even try to teach pupils the secondary curriculum.

Quickly recalling math facts, instead of calculating them, frees up mental resources for higher - level operations.

Ten frames can be used to build number sense, help students gain «mental math» fluency, and to better understand how to use the math strategies of «composing and decomposing» numbers, to complete operations over places (i.e. from tens to hundreds, or thousands to hundreds.)

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

Add up to four two - digit numbers and subtract two - digit numbers using mental strategies and algorithms based on knowledge of place value and properties of operations.

(5)(A) not making reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or employee, unless such covered entity can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the business of such covered entity; or

On the road that means focusing on your kids, or that big project at work, rather than being absorbed in the mere operation of your vehicle; on the rally stage the RAV4's wallflower demeanor leaves more mental space for nailing the details of more than 100 miles of treacherous, ever - changing off - road conditions — and the 350 - plus miles of open road transits that link them together.

The same article quoted Col. James Cluff, the commander of the Air Force's 432nd Wing, which runs drone operations from a desert outpost about 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas: «Having our folks make that mental shift every day, driving into the gate and thinking, «All right, I've got my war face on, and I'm going to the fight,» and then driving out of the gate and stopping at Walmart to pick up a carton of milk or going to the soccer game on the way home — and the fact that you can't talk about most of what you do at home — all those stressors together are what is putting pressure on the family, putting pressure on the airman.»

He begins with his definition: «mental accounting is the set of cognitive operations used by individuals and households to organize, evaluate and keep track of financial activities.»

When Descartes» analytical geometry treated space and extension, the res extensa of nature and the world, so «that its relations, however complicated, must always be expressible in algebraic formulae,» mathematics succeeded in reducing and translating all that man is not into patterns which are identical with human, mental structures... Now the phenomena could be saved only in so far as they could be reduced to a mathematical order, and this mathematical operation does not serve to prepare man's mind for the revelation of true being... that appear in the sensually given data, but serves, on the contrary, to reduce these data to the measures of the human mind, which, given enough distance, being sufficiently remote and uninvolved, can look upon and handle the multitude and variety of the concrete in accordance with its own patterns and symbols....