"instrumental action" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to the idea of actively undertaking measures to achieve a desired result. For example, "The government used instrumental action to mitigate the effects of the economic crisis."
The voice stammers in a high register, on the edge of ululation, and is sliced or chopped off by an instrumental action.
Excessive transfer of affective value to instrumental action is thought to contribute to psychiatric disorders.
Instrumental action is well known to be vulnerable to affective value.
The brain region most commonly implicated in overriding such affective biasing of instrumental action is the prefrontal cortex.
Then again, the transhumanist New Man has long since been emancipated from the constraints of the conflicts with nature arising out of instrumental action.
The paradigmatic link is that of instrumental action: the desire to Ψ links with the belief that by Φing in circumstances C one will Ψ.
Yet they are not only meant to be instrumental actions, but symbolic too, and sometimes both at the same time.
One-year-olds already imitate the gestures, speech sounds, and instrumental actions that they see performed by people around them.
Drawing on Lin (1999a), it can be argued that bridges give rise to instrumental actions with three possible outcomes.
One such paradigm entails delivery of electrical brain stimulation to laboratory animals as a reward for performance of instrumental actions such as pressing a lever or traversing an alley [19].
We investigated naturalistic actions that are part of everyday life and focussed on instrumental actions, like grasping and drinking.
