What's the difference between mindset and trait?

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.

Trait


Definition:

  • (v.) A stroke; a touch.
  • (v.) A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
  • (2) These results provide evidence that trait selection can change gonadotrophin receptor concentration and the dynamics of hormone secretion during the oestrous cycle of the mouse.
  • (3) There was no significant heterotic effect for any trait measured.
  • (4) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
  • (5) The group studied scored within the normal range on the traits assessed by the EPQ, STAIX, and STAI.
  • (6) However, two methodologic factors might account for the covariation of these 'schizophrenia spectrum' personality traits and measures of brain function.
  • (7) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
  • (8) However, these proskinetic symptoms appeared to be a character trait of an infantile personality rather than a condition following as a consequence of psychosis.
  • (9) It thus appears to determine all the traits associated with M protein.
  • (10) It may be assumed that this trait in the evaluation of mimics is due to a constitutional and morbid process.
  • (11) The results of pathohistologic investigations are objectively demonstrated through a chart of morphological traits, thus facilitating the identification of the diagnostical morphological traits caused by different industrial dusts.
  • (12) The disorder illustrates the problem of variable expressivity of a trait which makes it difficult to predict the risk of having an affected child when only one feature of a syndrome is present in a relative of a fully affected patient.
  • (13) We interpret our results as bearing on state and trait issues in chronic schizophrenics.
  • (14) This gives us the foundations to consider the method of evaluation of phenetic distances between natural groups of animals for the set of non-metric threshold skeletal traits more suitable for detection of genetical differentiation of wild populations.
  • (15) The authors present a schema for conceptualizing psychiatric illness in terms of state and trait disorders.
  • (16) Genetic parameters were estimated from sire components of variance and covariance obtained from a multiple-trait restricted maximum likelihood procedure.
  • (17) When the effect of apo E polymorphism on serum lipid traits was estimated in boys and girls separately, variation at the apo E gene locus explained 10.4, 13.3, 13.3, and 13.5% of the phenotypic variance in serum total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, apo B, and HDL-E levels, respectively, in boys, while in girls only the effect on HDL-E levels (19.3%) reached statistical significance.
  • (18) We found that the mean G-6PD values were statistically reduced in G-6PD heterozygous females; on the contrary the measurement of true G-6PD activity alone is not a good tool for discriminating heterozygous subjects with and without thalassemic trait.
  • (19) The following sources of evidence are discussed in order to examine the component parts-in terms of primary traits-of Eysenck's psychoticism scale, which he refers to as a 'superfactor' but which is here viewed as a composite or complex of primary traits.
  • (20) Although the clinical students compared to preclinical students attributed more positive personality traits to psychiatrists, students interested in taking up careers in psychiatry were few in both groups.