Sentence examples for explanation of behaviour from inspiring English sources
However, folk psychology, they argue, is merely a heuristic device invented by human beings in order to make the explanation of behaviour easier.
Many disciplines study the effects of healthy cognition on behaviour, and there is no reason to expect that cognition will suddenly become irrelevant to the explanation of behaviour when we study mental illness.
I seem to know from my own case that mental events can be the explanation of behaviour, and I know of no other candidate explanation for typical human behaviour, so I postulate the same explanation for the behaviour of others.
The construct of self-efficacy is incorporated into many known models and theories of health behaviour, and represents a significant factor in the explanation of behaviour and attitude changes [ 18].
Many of the reasons for attraction cited by behavioural scientists derive their principles from evolutionary pyschology – that is, the explanation of behaviour using evolutionary theory.
Thus, for example, consider J.J.C. Smart's (1959) thought that we should identify mental states with brain states, for otherwise those mental states would be "nomological danglers" which play no role in the explanation of behaviour.
The factors determining the rates of inward migration of anion species in amorphous anodic oxides are considered with respect to influences of ionic size, ionic charge and local film structure, although there is at present no general explanation of behaviours.
Appeals to evolutionary principles for explanations of behaviour – we show micro-awakenings because of a primal fear of being eaten – are sometimes rejected as speculative Just So Stories, because they're untestable.
Students were less likely to be fearful of genetic explanations of behaviour despite their academic interest in social science.
Environmental explanations of behaviour can, of course, also be presented as deterministic, claiming a closed future for those experiencing poverty and disadvantage.
