(n.) Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(2) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(3) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(4) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(5) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(6) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(7) )-induced gnawing behavior in rats was slightly more potent than that of clocapramine.
(8) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(9) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
(10) Serum pepsinogen 1, serum gastrin, ABO blood groups, secretor status of ABH blood group substances and behavioral factors were studied in 15 patients with duodenal ulcer and 61 their relatives affected and unaffected to duodenal ulcer.
(11) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
(12) Both demographically and clinically assessed behavioral variables were related to a number of outcome measures, including days in the community, clinical ratings, and family assessment.
(13) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
(14) Disabled men also were more depressed and anxious and had lower ego strength and higher hypochondriasis scores on the MMPI, but were no different in type A behavior.
(15) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.
(16) The ability of myo-inositol to reverse behavioral effects of lithium was tested using chronic inositol administration or acute intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.)
(17) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
(18) Our interest in the role of association brain structures during this behavior is not occasional.
(19) This procedure generated a number of VI-like effects, supporting the notion that VI behavior can be construed as a special case of an interaction between the organism's function relating reinforcement susceptibilities to chain length and the experimenter's function relating probabilities of reinforcement to chain length.
(20) These differences in central connectivity mirror the reports on behavioral dissociation of the facial and vagal gustatory systems.
Ritualistic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main therapies are i. suggestion, auto-suggestion, hynotism, assurance, persuasion, and ritualistic therapy; ii.
(2) For too long the profession has been locked into a ritualistic, buck-passing processing frequently resulting in unorganized efforts on behalf of objects rather than subjects.
(3) Their condemnation of inquiring journalism is age old, almost ritualistic.
(4) He also produced this effect in some of his sculptures, for example Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python) (1954), where a pair of solemn-looking palm leaves gives the work a consciously ritualistic tone.
(5) It's unusually intuitive, for a ritualistic process, but the question left hanging is: why celebrate both?
(6) An established obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in a twenty-six-year-old woman, characterized by obsessional fear of rat germs and ritualistic cleansing, was observed to worsen during pregnancy.
(7) Significantly more positive changes in behavior problems were reported for the experimental group than for the control group (untreated group) in each of the four symptom categories assessed (disturbances in perception, in speech and in social interaction and obsessive-compulsive or ritualistic behavior).
(8) Benzecry skillfully uses the colours in his giant orchestra to depict nature, water, evocations of forests, thunder, as well as ritualistic dances.
(9) We describe two patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome (TS) and disabling obsessive-compulsive and ritualistic behaviors who underwent bilateral radiofrequency anterior cingulotomy.
(10) After daily ingestion, ritualistic vomiting by male Achuar Indians, better known as Jívaros, reduces excessive caffeine intake, so that blood levels of caffeine and biotransformed dimethylxanthines do not cause undesirable CNS and other effects.
(11) There are the priestly Jungians who might be considered 'classical' Jungians who have almost ritualistically tried to recreate what he represented, even bringing in the Swiss cultural background.
(12) Fred Goodwin has been ritualistically stripped of his knighthood – and that's about it.
(13) With his inquiry team reaching its first conclusions, which are due to be unveiled in detail in September, he told the Guardian: "The central issue is how do we release more land in this country – a country that has developed urban containment to ritualistic proportions and in a country that devotes more land to golf courses than it does to homes.
(14) The ritualistic manner, closeness of events in time and absence of serious exogenous factors suggest the term 'family suicide'.
(15) During her tenure as the chief inspector of social work, she oversaw investigations into allegations of ritualistic sex abuse in the Western Isles and social services’ failure to monitor Colyn Evans, a teenage sex offender who grew up in care and went on to kill 16-year-old Karen Dewar in Fife.
(16) It is concluded that, not-withstanding these problems, casuistry represents a promising alternative to the regnant model of 'applied ethics' (i.e., to the ritualistic invocation of the so-called 'principles of bioethics').
(17) The purpose of this study was to examine the stress responses of parents to the sexual and ritualistic abuse of their children in day-care centers.
(18) The number of cases of religious or ritualistic abuse of children reported to Scotland Yard has increased year-on-year over the past decade.
(19) First, TM patients reported a significantly greater degree of pleasure during hair-pulling than OCD patients reported during performance of ritualistic behaviors.
(20) Obsessive preoccupation with images of food as well as ruminative calorie counting, and ritualistic behavior regarding food, use of laxatives, and vomiting, together with an underlying focus on control, undoing and other obsessive-compulsive defenses, and a sado-masochistic orientation to the body all point to an essential obsessive-compulsive disorder.