Sentence examples for mental mechanism from inspiring English sources

No one could commit so many barbarous acts over an extended time who did not have some mental mechanism, some sort of filter, that resolved everything she did as necessary and normal.

This seemed to help, particularly in the way it provided a simple explanation: that her psychological disorder was part of a natural, albeit extreme, mental mechanism that was still processing her traumatic memories.

The 19th-century German philosopher Johann Herbart made an important contribution by providing a mental mechanism that determined which ideas would become conscious and which would be left in the subconscious, to be called upon if circumstances warranted it.

As further support for that idea, the researchers note that the effect of speaking the foreign language became smaller as the speaker's familiarity with it increased.Regardless of the exact mental mechanism behind the team's findings, they could have big implications.

However, in order to eliminate completely any motivation implying a behavioral outcome Experiment 3 was devised with mathematical problems, i.e. a purely mental mechanism.

This group included approximately half of the student population that was initially exposed to traditional teaching and potentially included students that did not recognize EKG patterns as easily as their colleagues but were able to obtain a correct EKG diagnosis through other mental mechanism.

Yet the legal system takes no account of such mental mechanisms.

Neither of the most solid post-Darwinian accounts of mental mechanisms — Noam Chomsky's work on language and David Marr's on vision — drew on evolutionary stories.

He writes that "our minds contain a variety of mental mechanisms that make us adept at promoting our group's interests, in competition with other groups.

Having written chapter after chapter attacking the rules, he decides, at the end, that maybe he doesn't mind them after all: "There are rules, which are really mental mechanisms that carry out operations to combine words into meaningful arrangements".

The genes for these complex mental mechanisms, the argument goes, were passed on through the generations because they were adaptive, enhancing survival or reproductive success, and eventually, they spread widely and became standard equipment.