Sentence examples for contingent responses from inspiring English sources

This report examined in male Siberian hamsters which of two aspects of photoperiod history – prior melatonin exposure or entrainment state of the circadian system – is critical for generating contingent responses to a common photoperiodic signal.

It also is possible that chimpanzees (and other primates) might practice reciprocal altruism in the wild, but do not display contingent responses in experimental settings because they do not have a domain-general capacity for contingent reciprocity.

The absence of contingent responses in this experiment is notable because it would have provided a mechanism for individuals to increase the likelihood of obtaining rare and highly valued rewards for themselves.

We found evidence of contingent responses in two of the 13 dyads that we tested; in one pair, prosocial choices in the previous two rounds increased the chance of prosocial choices in the current round, but in the other pair of females, prosocial choices in the last three rounds decreased the likelihood of prosocial choices in the current round.

Personality psychology has primarily been concerned with personality traits, but the emphasis on traits ignores momentary expression of personality traits in a given situation and individuals' dynamic contingent response to situations.

Extensive efforts have been directed at elucidating neuroadaptations of MSNs (medium-sized spiny neurons), the principal cell type in the NAc, after chronic exposure to either non-contingent (response-independent) or contingent (response-dependent) administration of cocaine (reviewed by Wolf, 2010).

1. Preoccupation: Thinking about self injury occurs frequently, even when it is not acted upon. 1. Contingent Response: The activity is engaged in with the expectation that it will relieve an interpersonal difficulty, or negative feeling or cognitive state, or that it will induce a positive feeling state, during the act or shortly afterwards.

These shifts frequently correspond to heritable but reversible mutations at specific 'contingency loci' (i.e. hypermutable loci that allow a contingent response to changing environmental circumstances) (Zieg et al. 1977; Kearns et al. 2004; Martin et al. 2005; Moxon et al. 2006).

Importantly, the effortful processing associated with the LDT counting task, by definition, was not directed at learning spatially-contingent responses related to the target sequence.

We show that higher-order sequential associations masked from conscious awareness can be learned through the unconscious interocular integration of retinotopic-based codes stemming from monocular eye-of-origin information and in the absence of spatially-contingent responses.

We also find that contingent valuation responses are strongly correlated with expectations for the WTP of others.