What's the difference between habitual and mindset?

Habitual


Definition:

  • (n.) Formed or acquired by habit or use.
  • (n.) According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
  • (2) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (3) II, the visual and auditory stimuli were exposed conversely over the habituation- (either stimulus) and the test-periods (both stimuli).
  • (4) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
  • (5) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
  • (6) Regardless of the habitual diet, a test meal accentuated the rate of triacylglycerol appearance in whole plasma and in the very low density lipoproteins of Triton WR-1339-treated monkeys, and the rate of increase of the protein component after feeding was slightly higher.
  • (7) This contrasts sharply with the reduction in both the frequency and surface area of sensory neuron active zones that accompanies long-term habituation, and suggests that modulation of active zone number and size may be an anatomical correlate that lies in the long-term domain.
  • (8) Infants were habituated to models posing either prototypically positive displays (e.g., happy expressions) or positive expression blends (e.g., mock surprise).
  • (9) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (10) Species differed with respect to speed of habituation but not with respect to sensitivity towards stimulus change.
  • (11) Intact animals showed habituation of exploratory behaviour toward a heterospecific fish after five consecutive encounters.
  • (12) Habitual physical activity in children is related to physical fitness and appears to mediate cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors.
  • (13) This increase may be due to enhanced responding to sensory characteristics of foods resulting from a failure to habituate to food cues.
  • (14) The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is looking at restricting access to health services via a tighter habitual residency test.
  • (15) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
  • (16) These results extend the scope of immunologic circadian rhythms to the reticuloendothelial system as a feature of a bioperiodic defense mechanism, most active during the habitual rest light span of nocturnally active mice.
  • (17) A hypothesis is presented as to how certain occlusal relationships and habitual patterns of jaw use may predispose an individual to TMJ internal derangements.
  • (18) Each of 12 male habitual smokers with coronary artery disease was given dipyridamole (75 mg) and aspirin (324 mg), dipyridamole (75 mg) and placebo for aspirin, or a placebo for each drug 3 times daily for 1 week before each of three 20-minute periods (separated by 2 weeks) of smoking 2 cigarettes after a 12-hour period of abstinence.
  • (19) Diclofenac sodium suppositories 150-200 mg day-1 were compared with placebo in a double-blind study during the first 3 days after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty in 40 patients with habitual snoring or obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome.
  • (20) An attempt was made to correlate the intelligence level of three well-defined groups (Gifted, IQ 140; Normal, 95 IQ 105: Mentally retarded, 45 IQ 55) and the habituation rate and pattern of a GSR response to a series of light stimuli.

Mindset


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
  • (2) No doubt New Labour ministers would regard such moves as protectionism, locked as they are in a discredited free-market mindset.
  • (3) I found their remarks a little ripe, if mostly well argued, although Nicholson's characterisation of the characters' default mindset as "Brown people bad, American people good" rather misses the obvious retort: "They wanna kill me, I wanna live."
  • (4) The police in Staten Island, she believes, “have a mindset of racism.
  • (5) What that mindset signally failed to grasp is that there is something called computer science – a discipline with fundamental concepts and principles, just like other sciences .
  • (6) So what was shocking to me about Titanic was that the guy gave his life for the woman and not for his country – I just couldn’t understand that mindset.” “The other shocking thing about that movie was that it was set 100 years ago, and I realised that our country is in the 21 st century and we still haven’t reached that level of development,” she said.
  • (7) When dealing with Tsai, we should bear in mind important factors such as her experience, personality and mindset,” added Wang, from the association for relations across the Taiwan strait.
  • (8) The government began aggressively purging the heads of cultural and academic institutions (a notable number of them Jewish and liberal intellectuals suspected of a “foreign” mindset) and installing in their stead true believers in the Magyar way.
  • (9) I think that was deeply shocking and it's the kind of comment that reveals a whole mindset.
  • (10) Reasonable grounds to suspect a crime are rendered unnecessary when the entire mindset is considered criminal.
  • (11) In the context of what he called the "normalisation of war", Bacevich argued that unchallenged, expanding American military superiority encouraged the use of force, accustomed "the collective mindset of the officer corps" to ideas of dominance, glorified warfare and the warrior and advanced the concept of "the moral superiority of the soldier" over the civilian.
  • (12) Fullerton says there is great potential ahead if society can change its collective mindset: “This is a monumental challenge that holds the promise of uniting our generation in a shared purpose.
  • (13) May 5, 2015 The College of Occupational Therapists: “The Care Act and NHS Five Year Forward View put the right focus on prevention, but without a shift in both mindset and resources the current system will fail.
  • (14) And, while the oil-boom dynamic here and elsewhere in Alberta means this is still a common mindset, people are waking up to the many great things about Edmonton, including the potential it offers to become even better.
  • (15) A mindset in which individuals are ultimately discarded will never achieve peace or justice,” he wrote.
  • (16) "Personally, not for me, and I think everyone should have that mindset.
  • (17) Speaking in detail about the Trident review for the first time since he was sacked as minister, Harvey said: "If you can just break yourself out of that frankly almost lunatic mindset for a second, all sorts of alternatives start to look possible, indeed credible."
  • (18) But as in all sciences, real advances require a self-critical mindset and a strict adherence to the scientific method.
  • (19) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
  • (20) Kamau said the global goals represented a phenomenal opportunity for private sector investment, but a shift in mindset was required to bring about positive change.