"competing response" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to two or more responses to a particular situation or event. For example: "John's team presented two competing responses to the client's request for a marketing strategy."
A comprehensive habit-reversal program was implemented, including awareness training, competing response training, relaxation training, self-monitoring, social support, and contingency management.
The first is habit-reversal training, which teaches patients to be more aware of their pulling and picking, and its cues, and trains them to use a "competing response" when the urge hits, such as clenching the fist with the hair-pulling hand and pressing it to the side of the body.
Arguably, these activations could arise because subjects need to inhibit the competing response induced by the scene's gist (indeed, right inferior frontal cortex activations are found in response inhibition tasks 80,81,82), need to exert higher cognitive control83, or engage in online monitoring processes84.
Using task switching, the authors independently manipulated two kinds of conflict: task conflict (with information that potentially triggers the relevant or the competing task rule/identity) and response conflict (with information that potentially triggers the relevant or the competing response code/motor response).
A week later, Mandy had bitten her nails only three times and had used the competing response seven times.
Then the therapist taught Mandy what is known as a "competing response". Whenever she felt that tension in her fingertips, he told her, she should immediately put her hands in her pockets or under her legs, or grip a pencil or something else that made it impossible to put her fingers in her mouth.
The effect of stress on the suppression of erroneous competing responses.
For every suicide bombing in Israel, for instance, there are competing responses, one condemning terror, the other lauding martyrs.
Volume IV of the series spans 1789 to the First World War and analyzes the period's evolving politics and industrial systems along with competing responses of conservatism, socialism, radicalism and liberalism.
Of all the competing responses to Di Canio's appointment – soap opera battle fatigue, surprise at English football's sudden discovery of a political conscience – perhaps the most surprising one is the urge to laugh, albeit a little darkly.
But the Qing court's antiforeign, conservative nationalism and the reforms undertaken after 1901 were in fact among several competing responses to the shared sense of crisis in early 20th-century China.
