Sentence examples for involuntary behavior from inspiring English sources

Like James, his early interest in hypnosis was stimulated by problems of volition -- in particular, by the fact that hypnosis seemed to reverse the normal relations between voluntary and involuntary behavior (E. R. Hilgard, 1964).

Thus, there are different levels of action to be distinguished, and these include at least the following: unconscious and/or involuntary behavior, purposeful or goal directed activity (of Frankfurt's spider, for instance), intentional action, and the autonomous acts or actions of self-consciously active human agents.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) manifests as the inability to resist or stop continuous abnormal thoughts; fears; or ritualistic, repetitive, and involuntary behavior.

One immediate reason is the phenomena on the footage -- a class of disorders called "parasomnias," which are defined as unwanted and involuntary behaviors during sleep and are by definition occult, because they appear when most people are unable to witness them.

When walking up stairs, the natural movement patterns mediated by the central nervous system emerged through Jim's synthetic limb as an involuntary, reflexive behavior.

By comparison, monkey infants, which possess a similar involuntary grasping behavior, were able to hang from one hand for more than half an hour.

In addition, when he walks up and down stairs all the natural movement patterns mediated by the central nervous system emerge through his synthetic limb as an involuntary, reflexive behavior.

For example, as Davidson pointed out, an agent may intentionally cause himself to trip, and the activity that caused the tripping may have been intentional under that description while, presumably, the foreseen but involuntary tripping behavior that it caused is not supposed to be intentional under any heading.

Third, the reliance on diagnostic codes to identify hypertension patients may have caused misclassification of the target patients due to the nature of claims data, such as voluntary or involuntary miscoding behavior.

Although grooming behaviors are intrinsically essential in many animal species, anxiety and/or stress induce(s) the increase in involuntary grooming behaviors, which leads to inflammation, erosion, and/or ulceration in the skin.

Nevertheless, involuntary provider switch behavior appeared to be more an issue of "employer-imposed disruption".