Sentence examples for mental category from inspiring English sources
In which mental category does the current contraction belong: recession or depression?
They were "profitable strangers", a mental category that has existed, quietly, ever since.An island storyBagehot speculates that this complex runs deep.
A child who is a member of a distinctive or specific group has usually created a mental category for that group by five to six years, and children from ethnic minorities tend to be more aware of ethnic differences than are nonminority children.
But as Kristjansson (2006, p. 38) says "We must keep in mind, however, that Nordic childhoods, both in the present and in the future, exist as a mental category rather than a concrete object".
Whilst both models concur that the mental category consists of a different participant configuration to the material/action category, they each have their own ideas about which roles are actually included.
Similar to Levitin's recommendation not to give decisions more time than they are worth, you don't want to set up a mental category or physical file folder that contains just a single item.
Our mental categories tend to be behind the times.
Naming, Dr. Lupyan concluded, helps to create mental categories.
Path dependence explains many linguistic patterns and mental categories, McWhorter continues.
Many managers quite naturally organize their tasks into mental categories, a practice that helps them remember the dozens of things they must accomplish each day.
In contrast, a smaller company was sworn in here a year ago with less than half the recruits in the top mental categories, according to Navy recruiting officers.
