What's the difference between eclecticism and theories?

Eclecticism


Definition:

  • (n.) Theory or practice of an eclectic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today's identification of four types and various sub-types of 5-HT receptors has revealed the extraordinary eclecticism of this transmitter which within migraine's clinical expression underscores that migraine sufferers are characterized by a marked sensitivity to all the drugs capable of acutely or chronically interacting with serotonin metabolism and binding with many serotonin receptor types and sub-types.
  • (2) The eclecticism of POT allows the more experienced therapist to try out new methods without losing track of the problem.
  • (3) Despite lip service paid to prescriptive eclecticism, most graduate programs socialize their students into delimited schools of thought.
  • (4) They represented scholarship, complicated lyricism, musical eclecticism and internationalism (as in Phife’s Caribbean twang) rather than street-corner parochialism; what hip-hop scholar and professor of global studies at New York University Jason King calls “the rise of a European, classically influenced concept of the artist in hip-hop; the rapper as more than a showman but a philosopher, individualist, soul-searcher”.
  • (5) As a remnant of Lower Manhattan’s past eclecticism and vitality, it’s a husk.
  • (6) During the past decade, however, the ideological controversy has yielded to pluralism in theory and eclecticism in practice.
  • (7) The preceeding discussion and case histroy illustrate the modern eclecticism which must be utilized in a synergistic manner to effect remissions in psychiatric illnesses heretofore unresponsive to treatment.
  • (8) While awaiting for coherent developments to take place, however, a professional psychotherapist should avoid resorting to technical eclecticism on the one hand.
  • (9) Sixteen treatment reports show a move toward eclecticism that blends biologic as well as group "psychosocial" therapies with the individual psychosocial therapies oriented to emotion, thinking and behavior in OCD.
  • (10) And his eclecticism: never being scared to experiment and go in different directions.
  • (11) Changes in cultural forms, such as the acceptance of western pharmaceuticals, may still rely on traditional cognitive frames of reference, suggesting eclecticism amid conservatism.
  • (12) Problem Oriented Therapy (POT) is a short-term therapy concept that is characterized by the following essentials: Problem orientation, patient orientation, eclecticism and process-structuring.
  • (13) The methodological eclecticism that made scientific psychology possible did not, however, remain a feature of psychology for very long.
  • (14) The range of available treatment methods and the growing complexity of the assessment for erectile problems demands an eclecticism of approach which can best be provided by multidisciplinary clinics specialising in sexual dysfunctions.
  • (15) All patients met Asher's description for the emergency presentation, the truculence-evasiveness manner, the luxuriance of tales, the eclecticism of the alleged symptoms, the vehement request of dangerous or painful procedures and the apparent senselessness.
  • (16) Since different persons communicate in a variety of ways--verbal, nonverbal, symbolic, metaphoric, etc., eclecticism in approach is essential.
  • (17) These ingredients, above all the eclecticism, are detailed: diverse psychotherapeutic interventions are administered to foster awareness, modification of thought patterns, modification of behavior, emotionality, awareness of the body, ability to relax, and support.
  • (18) This is attributed to the eclecticism and rigour of the surgical technique.
  • (19) Problem-oriented therapy (POT) features the following essentials: problem orientation, eclecticism, patient orientation and brevity.
  • (20) But this solo dance from the Last for One crew works with more sophisticated layers of eclecticism.

Theories


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Theory

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This theory was confirmed by product analysis and by measuring the affinity of the substrate for the enzyme by its inhibition of p-nitrophenyl glucoside hydrolysis.
  • (2) The position of the cyst supports the theory that branchial cysts are congenital in origin.
  • (3) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
  • (4) Implications of the theory for hypothesis testing, theory construction, and scales of measurement are considered.
  • (5) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
  • (6) In 1935, Einstein challenged the prevailing interpretation of quantum theory.
  • (7) These results are interpreted in terms of the accessory binding site theory of Ariëns, and suggest the existence of different accessory binding sites on the Ascaris GABA receptor.
  • (8) September 11 conspiracies Facebook Twitter Pinterest September 11 conspiracy theories.
  • (9) This theory is supported by a previous experimental report.
  • (10) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
  • (11) These findings do not support the theory that 5-HT1C receptor activation causes migraine.
  • (12) Only one part of the theory of Alajouanine and colleagues has been confirmed by our experiments for our results have shown that there is a very close correlation between semantic paraphasias and disorders of semantic differentiation whilst no correlation can be found between phonemic paraphasias and disturbances in auditory phonemic discrimination.
  • (13) A new theory for the peculiar site selection of cholesteatomas of the external auditory canal is postulated.
  • (14) However, our theory differs in several important respects from the latter efforts.
  • (15) This paper provides an overview of the theory, indicating its contributions--such as a basis for individual psychotherapy of severe disorders and a more effective understanding of countertransference--and its shortcomings--such as lack of an explanation for the effects of physical and cognitive factors on object relatedness.
  • (16) The various theories of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) are reviewed.
  • (17) Comparison with values predicted from theory shows that the distribution of protein among the various cross-linked species, obtained after different extents of exposure to cross-linker, is consistent with a two-layered arrangement of subunits involving one type of interaction between subunits from different layers and another between subunits within the same layer.
  • (18) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
  • (19) Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has refused to say whether he believes in the theory of evolution, arguing that it is “a question a politician shouldn’t be involved in one way or the other”.
  • (20) These findings support the theory that plasma-membrane-cytoskeleton interactions have a role in the expression of specific immunity; the findings also identify new areas that should be considered in trying to understand the primary immunodeficiency diseases.

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