(n.) One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.
(n.) One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
(2) Three experiments compared learning-disabled and skilled readers' performance on naturalistic memory measures, as well as investigated the relationship between memory performance on everyday and laboratory tasks.
(3) The catecholamine elevations found across experimental periods on two laboratory days among Type A men generalized to more naturalistic settings, as indexed by 24-hr urinary excretion rates.
(4) The research design was qualitative, using a naturalistic approach to generate an understanding of group support for male homosexuals with HIV infection.
(5) But one has a right to demand what purpose it fulfils," wrote the Times's critic, who felt that Bond's "blockishly naturalistic piece, full of dead domestic longueurs and slavishly literal bawdry", would "supply valuable ammunition to those who attack modern drama as half-baked, gratuitously violent and squalid".
(6) The relationships between number of friends, socioeconomic status, and grade level were studied in a 2 times 2 times 2 factorial design with 2 sets of dependent measures: (1) social skills were assessed by an experimenter testing each child individually on a set of tasks which included measures of the ability to label emotions in facial expressions, knowledge of how to make friends, giving help, and role-taking ability; and (2) social interaction in the classroom was assessed using a naturalistic observational system.
(7) Chris Packham, the BBC presenter and naturalist, told the Guardian he believed work on developing a vaccine to make reds immune to the poxvirus was the only longterm solution.
(8) Data on vocal output of 51 preterm infants and 16 term infants were obtained during naturalistic home observations at 1, 3, and 8 months; during the administration of a preference-for-novelty paradigm in the laboratory at 8 months; and by the administration of the Gesell Developmental Schedules at 9 months.
(9) The objectives of this study were: 1) to determine whether cardiovascular patterns under more naturalistic circumstances in the field were altered in Type A subjects, and 2) to determine whether these field patterns paralleled cardiovascular patterns to a series of stressors in the laboratory.
(10) The proper method should include the following elements: i) An epidemiologically representative sample ii) A naturalistic study environment iii) A longitudinal design with long-term follow-up iv) Concurrent behavioral ratings using direct observations and a reliable, treatment-sensitive rating scale.
(11) • Sustainable tourism company Sumak Travel offers tailor-made journeys to Veracruz, and other parts of Mexico Los Islotes , Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico Steve Backshall , naturalist and TV presenter Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Just two hours from La Paz in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, Los Islotes is a rocky California sea lion colony, peppered with resting blue-footed boobies, cormorants and pelicans.
(12) Drawing upon concepts derived from ego psychological and object relations psychoanalytic theories of individual development and from a depth group psychology, the present empirical study, a naturalistic field investigation, explored hypothesized relationships between aspects of patients' psychological boundaries and structural features of inpatient therapy groups.
(13) Further research is proposed using naturalistic methods in order to understand the processes of interpretation and implementation of educational philosophy.
(14) The need to synthesize clinical and empirical considerations in naturalistic studies of psychologically oriented alcoholism treatment is discussed.
(15) They then review naturalistic studies conducted before the development of efficacious treatments for panic disorder and follow-up studies conducted in the past 10 years, both of which revealed high levels of chronicity in panic disorder patients.
(16) A naturalistic experiment tested the proposition that police time could be saved in nondangerous crisis intervention calls through the use of citizen participants.
(17) This study is the first to describe the naturalistic feeding characteristics of a large number of bulimics by direct observation.
(18) Under controlled experimental conditions the naturalistic human behaviors of socializing and speaking are sensitive dependent variables for behavioral pharmacology research.
(19) Psychotic subjects received amantadine in an open, naturalistic study.
(20) In a naturalistic study of 24 children at 1;3 and 1;9, it was found that mothers modelled verbs for their children most often BEFORE the referent action actually occurred.
Zoologist
Definition:
(n.) One who is well versed in zoology.
Example Sentences:
(1) The zoologist Rob Wiliams, who is one of the few people to have seen members of the uncontacted tribes, says franker discussions with and about indigenous people forced into transition are vital because once tribes have access to roads, guns and healthcare, their numbers grow rapidly and so does their impact on other species.
(2) A bat zoologist developed the symptoms of rabies 51 days after his last exposure to a bat bite.
(3) Lewes, the German zoologist C. Vogt and the physiologist M.I.
(4) It also includes the views of the TV naturalist Simon King , the zoologist Mark Carwardine and the environmental writer George Monbiot ... Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 12.05pm BST The Science Media Centre 's briefing for journalists on the science behind the cull is under way.
(5) A brief review of the basic theoretical concepts of an outstanding Soviet zoologist V. N. Beklemishev in the field of parasitology, general epidemiology, medical entomology, theory of evolution is presented.
(6) This classification scheme, which most closely reflects the evolutionary history, molecular biology, genetics and ultrastructure of extant life, requires changes in social organization of biologists, many of whom as botanists and zoologists, still behave as if there were only two important kingdoms (plants and animals).
(7) We've got a module where we've got a zoologist, a lawyer and a political scientist, and we're bringing them together to teach this."
(8) In 1982 John Fuller's Sycamore Press published Imlah's first pamphlet, The Zoologist's Bath and other Adventures .
(9) The beavers’ spread in the Tay and Earn catchments, reaching as far north as Loch Rannoch and as far south as Crieff and Bridge of Earn, has been occurring naturally even while zoologists have had mixed success in their project to officially reintroduce beavers under controlled conditions at Knapdale in Argyll.
(10) Therefore the present study does not support the existence of a relationship between cranial weight or the pressure on the cranio-vertebral joint, and the size and position of occipital condyles as supposed by zoologists on the basis of research work on different species of mammals.
(11) Zoologists contributed, but an important factor was the tradition of zoology in the medical curriculum, especially in Middle Europe from where sprang the immortal names of Berthold, Langerhans, Knauer, von Halban, Fraenkel, Biedl, and many others.
(12) But Jia Jiansheng, of the Chinese state forestry administration, said zoologists now believe up to 400 are needed to ensure a rich and stable genetic stock, to secure their survival and boost successful release into the wild.
(13) We were all in desperation,” says Iain Douglas-Hamilton , veteran zoologist and founder of Save the Elephants.
(14) Jonathan, 53, a fedora-wearing zoologist from the south, inherited the presidency last year when Umaru Yar'Adua, a northerner, died during his first term.
(15) Birds have also been evolving very slowly at the anatomical level, particularly within the last 25 million years, according to Simpson, Romer, and many other vertebrate zoologists.
(16) Jonathan, 53, a fedora-wearing zoologist, had relentlessly courted the youth vote, building his profile on Facebook and recruiting staff who worked on Barack Obama's 2008 campaign in the US.
(17) In the meantime, animal approach should be done carefully and the behavior of the zoologist before and after the shooting is the main key of success.
(18) Zoologists say this highlights how ecosystems can quickly move out of balance.
(19) This program should prove to be of great interest to physical anthropologists, zoologists and other researchers in the life sciences with an interest in taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny.
(20) The combined properties of a given cutaneous system, like other characters classically employed by systematic zoologists, are useful criteria in the assessment of primate taxonomy and phylogeny.