(n.) A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn.
(n.) A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.
(n.) Readiness in learning; docility; aptness.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article reviews the general concepts of aptitude and ATI and summarizes lesions learned in ATI research on educational treatments that should help ATI research on psychotherapeutic treatments.
(2) Psychometric tests of verbal and spatial ability were included to assess convergent and discriminant validity of hypothesized relationships between aptitude test performance and basic cognitive processes.
(3) The results of repair of posterior urethral strictures, even the complex ones, by anastomotic procedures can be excellent but real competence depends upon a particular aptitude of the surgeon for the minutiae of reconstructive techniques, appropriate training in a specializing department, a real ongoing numerical experience and special instrumentation with facilities for detailed urodynamic evaluation of this sphincter active area of the urethra.
(4) In a separate session verbal, spatial and abstract reasoning subtests of the Differential Aptitude Test were administered.
(5) VO2 max varied with age, athletic participation and aptitude score.
(6) An aptitude test has been designed to assess the psychomotor ability of surgeons under the special conditions and difficulties of endoscopic surgery.
(7) We also know little about the relative aptitude for different musical components, especially melody and harmony.
(8) This haemoglobin abnormality therefore underlines the question of aptitude of navigation personnel in national or international air-lines.
(9) There are relationships between cannabis use and geographic area of enlistment, religious preference, aptitude scores, race, educational level, and age at enlistment.
(10) A deepening of analysis in extrapolation scientific aptitude and preventive exposition to valid experiences since 1st.
(11) Right and left cerebral hemisphere and limbic scores derived from the Herrmann Brain Dominance Profile, Scholastic Aptitude Test Verbal and Mathematics scores, and High School Grade Point Average were correlated with grades in college developmental courses in reading, English, and mathematics for 146 students.
(12) The authors examine prophylactic aspects of laser-induced injury in personnel dealing with these radiations, especially as far as ocular pathology and criteria of aptitude to work with these radiations from the point of view of function of the visual apparatus are concerned.
(13) After ten years of experience with therapeutic vacations in a department for chronic psychotic patients the aptitude of these vacations as part of a long term ward-treatment programme is discussed.
(14) Results indicated no substantial differences in correlations for the two types of tests, and hence little or no support for the notion of an aptitude-achievement distinction based on differential heritabilities.
(15) The task of appraising aptitudes and inclinations accompanies a rehabilitee and the rehabilitation workers involved for the entire duration of an occupationally-focussed rehabilitation measure.
(16) Recommendations on the knowledge and aptitudes to be acquired during the basic training of dental practitioners have been accepted by the EC member states.
(17) As chairman of the Bar Council he once complained that some of his peers got into the profession through accent rather than aptitude, saying: "People from a privileged background are sometimes recruited even though they are not up to the job intellectually."
(18) Research that combines correlational and experimental approaches in a search for aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI) is both inescapable and of potential benefit to the field.
(19) Subsequently, the prophylactic as well as therapeutic potency of selected immunomodulating drugs should be evaluated in various models of aptitude, such as chronic infection, autoimmune diseases and chronic inflammatory reactions.
(20) Thus, surgeons with a general urologic training who do not have both a special additional and ongoing experience of reconstructive procedures and a particular aptitude for the problems involved must be advised that "having a go" is not in the best interests of their patients.
Attitude
Definition:
(n.) The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.
(n.) The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.
(n.) Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
(3) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
(4) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(5) This investigation examined the extent to which attitudes of doctors who participated in a one-year training programme for general practice changed in intended directions by training.
(6) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
(7) The toluene group were more approving in their attitudes towards taking other drugs.
(8) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
(9) In doing so they are often supported by their parents who as well assume an ambivalent attitude towards therapy.
(10) A critical attitude towards the use of silicone breast implants, when these are used for purely cosmetic purposes, is recommended at present.
(11) The attitude towards drug trials was negative in 79% of the personnel, in contrast to 71% positive in three Swedish mental hospitals.
(12) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(13) During the twentieth century complex medical and social changes have resulted in changing attitudes to and experiences with death.
(14) None of the male students' sexual behaviors were related strongly to parent sexual attitudes.
(15) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(16) Furthermore, relatives in the activation group showed a more positive attitude to the care than those in the comparison group.
(17) It was possible to achieve this very clear result although a strong aversion to animal experiments and a critical attitude toward biological research exist in Switzerland, as well as in other European countries.
(18) This demonstrates a considerable range in surgeons' attitudes to day surgery despite its formal endorsement by professional bodies, and identifies what are perceived as the organizational and clinical barriers to its wider introduction.
(19) The attitudes and practices of 96 doctors toward spousal assault victims in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, were investigated by questionnaire surveys distributed to general practitioners.
(20) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.