The predictability of behavioral chains in ADHD has been investigated using autocorrelations, where serial correlations between instances of behavior are calculated across the entire data set (e.g. the correlation between response n and response n + 1, between response n and response n + 2, …).
This is simply a list of the specific instances of behavior that illustrate the chief complaint and symptoms.
So the conclusion to be drawn, were we proceeding from this multitude of correlations, could only be that many instances of behavior are associated with mental states.
Relational, intentional mental properties thus become causally relevant to behavior, because they are relevant to structuring the very causal processes that, on Dretske's view, constitute instances of behavior.
Transana (https://www.transana.com/), a transcription and analysis software for audio and video data, was used to identify and code instances of behaviors relating to the themes; this was repeated until the project team achieved consensual validation (Creswell 2007).
Mills testified that he never knew of an instance of inappropriate behavior by Thomas until December 2005, when she informed him in an e-mail message that Thomas hugged her and tried to kiss her, but she turned away.
If a single instance of this behavior could have such a strong effect on us, what must it have been like for women students decades ago, when the very presence of women on campus was revolutionary, before official policies against harassment existed?
Any instance of bodily behavior has a sufficient physical cause, which itself has a sufficient physical cause, and so on.
Addressing one instance of discriminatory behavior is an important start, but it won't fix underlying issues.
One example of a punitive practice is the zero tolerance policy, a policy of delivering severe consequences after a single instance of undesirable behavior.
