A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.

The neural organization of language is complicated ; language is a comprehensive and complex behavior and it makes sense that it isn't the product of some small, circumscribed region of the brain.

In this situation, the observation of the wheel's behavior provided information about the physical properties of the wheel rather than its " probability " in some abstract sense, a concept which is the basis of both the gambler's fallacy and its reversal.

An optical mouse would be less susceptible to changes in behavior than a ball mouse with increased friction because the sensor does not rely on mechanical contact to sense movement ; a touchpad provides no added friction with all its buttons held down with a thumb.

The term has been applied to any tactic, psychological or otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an individual's sense of control over their own thinking, behavior, emotions or decision making.

Psychologist Hans J. Eysenck in explaining the relationship between psychotherapy, behavior therapy and behavior modification defines it in its broadest sense as " the use of psychological therories and methods in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.

In this way, the social behavior is believed to have evolved in a fashion similar to other types of nonbehavioral adaptations, such as ( for example ) fur or the sense of smell.

In that sense, religion may be seen as declining because its waning ability to influence behavior.

There was a sense of social harmony, which, with the quality of music, and the overwhelming mass of people, many sporting bohemian dress, behavior, and attitudes helped to make it one of the enduring events of the century.

Psychiatrist Paulette Gillig draws a distinction between an " ego state " ( behaviors and experiences possessing permeable boundaries with other such states but united by a common sense of self ) and the term " alters " ( each of which may have a separate autobiographical memory, independent initiative and a sense of ownership over individual behavior ) commonly used in discussions of DID.

The fact that most Africans were not cultivated in the Portuguese sense, and that many participated in what were considered by the Portuguese to be pagan beliefs and uncivilized behavior, tended to create a low opinion of Africans as a group.

Social capital affects health risk behavior in the sense that individuals who are embedded in a network or community rich in support, social trust, information, and norms, have resources that help achieve health goals.

Defense mechanisms are a normal way of developing and maintaining a consistent sense of self ( i. e., an ego ), while only those thoughts and behavior patterns that produce difficulties in living should be termed " neuroses ".

Also, because religion affects all aspects of life, it is convenient in the sense that morality and notions of acceptable behavior are imposed by God and the supernatural.

Some have proposed that the number of deaths was influenced by the development of risk compensation, which says that drivers adjust their behavior in response to the increased sense of personal safety wearing a seat belt provides.

We often wish to describe the behavior of a function f ( x ), as either the argument x or the function value f ( x ) gets " very big " in some sense.

Aggression, in its broadest sense, is behavior, or a disposition, that is forceful, hostile or attacking.

Predatory or defensive behavior between members of different species may not be considered aggression in the same sense.

A psychological sense of ' hostile or destructive behavior ' dates back to 1912, in an English translation of the writing of Sigmund Freud.

However, there is no state vector which determines this statistical behavior in the sense that the expectation value of F ( A ) is

Complexity is about how a huge number of extremely complicated and dynamic sets of relationships can generate some simple behavioral patterns, whereas chaotic behavior, in the sense of deterministic chaos, is the result of a relatively small number of non-linear interactions.

This process of determining behavior modes is " prediction " only in the most limited sense of the word.

And in these organizations certain primal notions played a radiant part, radiant both in the sense of giving light and of being a pole toward which all perspectives converge.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

St. Bonaventure ’ s “ Retracing the Arts to Theology ”, a primary example of this method, discusses the skills of the artisan as gifts given by God for the purpose of disclosing God to mankind, which purpose is achieved through four lights: the light of skill in mechanical arts which discloses the world of artifacts ; which light is guided by the light of sense perception which discloses the world of natural forms ; which light, consequently, is guided by the light of philosophy which discloses the world of intellectual truth ; finally, this light is guided by the light of divine wisdom which discloses the world of saving truth.

In light of Wesley's episcopal consecration, the Methodist Church can lay a claim on apostolic succession, as understood in the traditional sense.

Fantastic light effects provide a sense of mystery and dissolve the outline of objects.

Oxford classicist Edward Copleston said that classical education “ communicates to the mind … a high sense of honor, a disdain of death in a good cause, a passionate devotion to the welfare of one ’ s country ”, thus concurring with Cicero that: “ All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature ”.

Following this example, Quixote would suggest ' The Great Quijano ', a play on words that makes much sense in light of the character's delusions of grandeur.

Photodiodes are intended to sense light ( photodetector ), so they are packaged in materials that allow light to pass, and are usually PIN ( the kind of diode most sensitive to light ).

In light of a possibly Jewish-Christian audience, the apostasy in this sense may be in regard to Jewish-Christians leaving the Christian assembly to return to the synagogue.

The color is ' enhanced ' in the sense that the CCD camera is sensitive to near infrared wavelengths of light beyond human vision.

Although the theory of special relativity forbids objects to have a relative velocity greater than light speed, and general relativity reduces to special relativity in a local sense ( in small regions of spacetime where curvature is negligible ), general relativity does allow the space between distant objects to expand in such a way that they have a " recession velocity " which exceeds the speed of light, and it is thought that galaxies which are at a distance of more than about 14 billion light-years from us today have a recession velocity which is faster than light.

The competition in semi-contact should be executed in its true sense with light and well-controlled contact.

The specialist Datahand keyboard uses optical technology to sense keypresses with a single light beam and sensor per key.

Visible light ( commonly referred to simply as light ) is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, and is responsible for the sense of sight.

For example, when a laboratory apparatus was developed that could reliably fire one electron at a time through the double slit, the emergence of an interference pattern suggested that each electron was interfering with itself, and therefore in some sense the electron had to be going through both slits at once — an idea that contradicts our everyday experience of discrete objects.

That the sense of balance depended on the three semicircular canals was discovered in 1870 by the physiologist Friedrich Goltz, but Goltz didn't discover how the balance-sensing apparatus functioned.

In some fish, mainly freshwater species ( e. g. common carp, wels catfish ), the swim bladder is connected to the labyrinth of the inner ear by the Weberian apparatus, a bony structure derived from the vertebrae, which provides a precise sense of water pressure ( and thus depth ), and improves hearing.

Those members of the left wing located in Scotland, who controlled the SDF apparatus there, could see little sense in remaining in the SDF further and they shortly left en bloc to launch the Socialist Labour Party, inaugurated at a conference held 7 June 1903.

He also mentions the idea of virtual reality in the first and most Earth-like alien world visited, in the form of an apparatus that directly affects sense centers in the brain.

Likewise, and are also " meta-symbols ", convenient shorthands, of System F " assemblies " ( in the Bourbaki sense ); otherwise, if such functions could be named ( within System F ), then there would be no need for the lambda-expressive apparatus capable of defining functions anonymously.

The inner ear includes both the organ of hearing ( the cochlea ) and a sense organ that is attuned to the effects of both gravity and motion ( labyrinth or vestibular apparatus ).

The problem is simplified considerably if children are innately equipped with mental apparatus that reduces and in a sense directs the search space amongst possible grammars.