Sentence examples for a habitual behavior from inspiring English sources

Once smoking becomes a habitual behavior, combined with the atherosclerotic process, a disastrous pathway ensues.

It is believed that the motor patterns needed to execute a habitual behavior are stored in the striatum and its circuits.

But while it appeared that handwashing was indeed a habitual behavior, were people "rational" about it?

Companies can begin to determine their product's potential for forming a habitual behavior by plotting two factors: frequency (how often the behavior occurs) and perceived utility (how rewarding the behavior is in the eyes of the user).

Moreover, as noted in a research by Tansik and Smith (1991), the repetition of stereotypical actions allows the script to become a habitual behavior, which can simplify and reduce the cognitive effort of the individual in the activation of the process latent in the script (Nottenburg and Shoben 1980).

Breaking the action down into steps can help, over time, to turn it into a habitual behavior.

Here is a video from Lily Cheng at Fogg's Stanford lab describing how the Facebook newsfeed effectively puts "hot triggers" in the path of people who are motivated to respond to those triggers all of the necessary components to make an habitual behavior even more so.

In the case of euthanasia though, where it is highly unlikely that it becomes an habitual behavior, it is possible that once health professionals have overcome potential barriers to performing this act, such as feelings of fear and guilt or respect for sanctity of human life, they become more motivated to do it again.

It takes clear intention and perseverance to change any habitual behavior.

While it should be acknowledged that positive answers may also identify students who are only engaging in experimental "one-time" experiences, it is likely that the behaviors so defined most often reflect a more habitual behavior (hence a true "risk behavior" for the majority of students).

The dorsolateral striatum is critical for habit formation (Balleine et al, 2007; O'Doherty et al, 2004) and is necessary for compulsive cocaine-taking rats to show resistance to devaluation of a reward; a sign of habitual behavior (Everitt and Robbins, 2005).