What's the difference between naturalistic and realistic?

Naturalistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.
  • (a.) Closely resembling nature; realistic.

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.

Realistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (2) But she says she is totally convinced that, as a public broadcaster, RAI has an ethical responsibility to start showing women in a more realistic light.
  • (3) You can’t prevent it,” he says, calling himself a realist.
  • (4) "If I hadn't scored that goal, I might still have ended up playing in Italy [Platt went on to play for Bari, Juventus and Sampdoria] but, realistically, I'm sure it was the catalyst.
  • (5) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (6) The ordered aspect of the genetic code table makes this result a plausible starting point for studies of the origin and evolution of the genetic code: these could include, besides a more refined optimization principle at the logical level, some effects more directly related to the physico-chemical context, and the construction of realistic models incorporating both aspects.
  • (7) A realistic interpretation of neurophysiologic data on the neostriatum must take into account all cell types instead of the current view of considering it as a pool of interneurons with few output cells.
  • (8) However, he told the BBC the 2014 target was a realistic aim.
  • (9) "I know fans will be disappointed but I think they are also realistic.
  • (10) Finally, an integrated control of Chagas Disease must emphasise complementary activities such as housing improvement and the active control of blood banks to eliminate transfusional transmission, besides the development of a realistic medical care system.
  • (11) Concluding that he didn't really want a career as a gritty Northern Irish realist, Harvey decided to train as a teacher.
  • (12) The possibility of pulmonary edema from fluid overload in nonhypovolemic patients, and reluctance of field personnel to infuse fluid at the rates necessary to produce benefit raise further questions about realistic benefit of IV's in all but the most rural systems.
  • (13) Epidemiological effects of lung cancer screening have not yet been confirmed, but so many lung cancer cases have been detected and treated, that a realistic approach for the improvement of screening programs was discussed.
  • (14) In asthmatic patients with aspirin sensitivity, who undergo ASA desensitization, continuous treatment with ASA or NSAIDs is realistic.
  • (15) Evaluations of the summer program have revealed that the students have an increased academic self-concept, a more realistic view of the requirements to become a health professional, and an enhanced awareness of the health care environment.
  • (16) A way must be found to experiment with various discretionary approaches that would strike a realistic balance among competing interests.
  • (17) She believes her explorations – of their vanities, their blindnesses, their cruelties, of the brief moments in which they attain goodness, or glimpse a kind of realistic, unselfish love – to be of urgent importance.
  • (18) I think we can realistically put back what we had 25 or 30 years ago.” However, the engineering projects are prohibitively expensive.
  • (19) Unemployment stands at a massive 36.7% using the most realistic definition, he noted in a June 2013 speech, with the proportion of those out of work for more than a year at 68%.
  • (20) It offers a more clinically realistic setting than models based on costs alone.

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