(n.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results support Kuiper and colleagues' distinction between concomitant and vulnerability schemas, and help to clarify differences between cognitions that are symptoms or correlates of depression and those that may play a causal role under certain conditions.
(2) Through the results of this study and a review of the literature we may establish a therapeutic schema adapted to our conditions.
(3) The authors present a schema for conceptualizing psychiatric illness in terms of state and trait disorders.
(4) Generally, this quantification completes the usual schemas, makes the teaching of sclerotherapy much easier, makes phlebology more accessible for computer data, with cartography as a basis for the anatomical reference points.
(5) The assumptions in this theory will be discussed and aspects of the proposed control schema will be compared with general control principles.
(6) This multistage schema would account for the lag between injury and restenosis and the failure of chronic antithrombotic therapy to prevent this process.
(7) 5) and erased from the original Kauffmann-White-Schema and the Arizona Antigenic Schema to avoid a wrong diagnosis.
(8) The experiment was designed to enable a decision to be made between two possible explanations of the expected deficit: Davis's (1979) suggestion that it is due to disorganisation of the self-schema in depression, and the hypothesis of Beck et al (1979) that depression is characterised by the predominance of a negative self-schema.
(9) Subjects completed a structured psychiatric interview (Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) and a Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), in addition to a test of self-schema, which involved rating and recall of a variety of "depressed" and "nondepressed" content adjectives.
(10) The medical directors of the ten Ontario provincial psychiatric hospitals have therefore developed a guide and schema to operationalize the MHA definitions, a novel feature of which is the examination of competence in such a way as to elicit and capture the patient's own responses upon which an objective determination is made.
(11) Compared to women who had never met Research Diagnostic Criteria for depressive disorders, women who had recovered from such disorders scored higher on measures of depression as an enduring characteristic; scored higher on measures of neuroticism; used more globally negative words, highly descriptive of depressed patients, to describe their personality; showed poorer recall of self-referred positive words, suggesting reduced activation of positive aspects of the self-schema; and in induced depressed mood showed better recall of self-referred global negative words, suggesting greater activation of related aspects of the self-schema.
(12) A schema for the control system for vertical eye movements is presented as well as an explanation for monocular elevator palsy.
(13) This schema and framework: (1) acknowledge that the term "breastfeeding" alone is insufficient to describe the numerous types of breastfeeding behavior, (2) distinguish full from partial breastfeeding, (3) subdivide full breastfeeding into categories of exclusive and almost exclusive breastfeeding, (4) differentiate among levels of partial breastfeeding, and (5) recognize that there can be token breastfeeding with little to no nutritional impact.
(14) The authors proposed a schema of dosage modifications based upon clinical state; plasmatic levels must be used as a guide for dose adjustment in patients clinically uncontrolled.
(15) The results suggest the possibility of discontinuous intrapartum monitoring according to a certain schema up to the second stage of labour, at minimum intrapartum risk for the baby, especially if there were no risks during pregnancy and at the beginning of delivery.
(16) Eighty-one third-year and early fourth-year medical students were taught a simple schema for generating differential diagnoses.
(17) These predictors included orthopaedic evaluations of severity and prognosis, the number of nonorganic physical signs, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scales 1 and 3, age, education, proficiency in English, and the accuracy of patients' understanding of the bases for their medical condition as determined by the Schema Assessment Instrument (SAI).
(18) Remitted depressives and normal subjects did not differ in their attributional biases, endorsement of dysfunctional attitudes, or interpretation of schema-relevant ambiguous events, but both groups differed from symptomatic depressives.
(19) The six other techniques of evaluation were: a) palpation, or the number of finger breadths inserted between the acromial process and the head of the humerus; b) anthropometry, or the distance between the acromial process and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus; c) templates, or the use of four schemas representing different degrees of separation of the humeral head from the glenoid fossa; d) a measure of the relation of the center of the humeral head to the center of the glenoid fossa; e) the vertical distance between the center of the humeral head and the center of the glenoid fossa; and f) the vertical distance between the apex of the humeral head and the inferior border of the glenoid fossa.
(20) Specifically, the self-schema hypothesis was examined.
Schemata
Definition:
(pl. ) of Schema
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of real-world schemata on recognition of complex pictures were studied.
(2) Disease information in the system has been encoded in the form of rules and schemata.
(3) Two prognostic schemata, based on stage plus age, and stage plus histologic differentiation plus age respectively, proved to be 95% accurate in our experience.
(4) It is suggested that the provision of appropriate schemata makes psychological knowledge more accessible to medical students, and more easily recalled as they move into clinical practice.
(5) At the same time, organized scenes depicting real world schemata were not selectively impaired in any of the patient groups.
(6) The attributional styles were relatively stable, influenced responses to stimuli used to investigate the use of causal schemata and were related to depressive symptoms.
(7) Although personality traits are commonly assumed to be represented in memory as schemata, little research has addressed whether such schemata can be learned from observation.
(8) A comparison of our sagittal series with the new X-ray findings shows, that the sagittal schemata of the atlas represent an extreme variation in the position of the Meynert axis and of the contours of the 4th ventricle.
(9) Previous research in the development of causal schemata has relied upon verbal descriptions of behavior to convey causally relevant information.
(10) The relationship of this processing bias to two facets of the personality trait dimension of sociability--overall level and self-schemata--is also examined.
(11) First, drawing upon diverse sources, the authors attempt to define 'New age,' after which they discuss those medical, spiritual, and sociocultural developments which help account for the rise of new age healing in the U.S. Next, a comprehensive review of over a dozen schemata of healing, healers, and medical systems fails to provide a satisfactory classification of new age healing.
(12) We examined whether depressed persons' social skill deficits contribute to their negative cognitions and whether this contribution is independent of their negative schemata.
(13) Various schemata have been offered to differentiate degrees of malignancy.
(14) We assessed subjects' social competence schemata with a questionnaire and subjects' actual level of social competence in the discussion through objective ratings made by codiscussants and outside observers.
(15) Since these schemata are long-term identifiable psychological patterns that influence attitude and behavioral responses, they may constitute a cognitive dimension of the depression-prone individual's personality.
(16) Overall, these data suggest that (a) people can directly access schemata about peripheral changes in emotion, (b) people are likely to do so when they believe to be reporting actual memories of such changes, and (c) the specific patterns revealed by past research may reflect prototypical knowledge of emotion.
(17) The dependence of this speed sensitivity curve on specific temporal and spatial parameters of the receptive field is studied, giving rise to some simple speed discrimination schemata.
(18) In a prospective study three different immunosuppressive schemata after renal transplantation were compared.
(19) Schemata are presented for the initial evaluation of patients with primary amenorrhea and secondary amenorrhea based on whether they are hypoestrogenic or estrogenized.
(20) Noting concerns for a comprehensive conceptualization of alexithymic characteristics, the present study examines the potential utility of considering these characteristics as manifestations of deficits in cognitive schemata.