When things go wrong in the world, we have a well-practiced habit of blaming others -- extremists, Al Queda, liberals, conservatives, and so on, without soberly facing our own role in creating these problems.
Bottom-up influences include acquired processing biases and similar well-practiced habits of thought about emotional concerns.
In this case the internal representation of threat is activated more strongly than before (see larger unfilled ascending arrow in Fig. 2), due to the greater influence of involuntary bottom-up influences – emotional processing biases and well-practiced habits of thought.
It is in this middle ground that we can grapple with the paradox of wu-wei, by integrating the practiced development of good habits with spontaneous action in the moment.
This spontaneous correction may have different rates according to the practiced sucking habit [ 19].
Work can be stressful, and under pressure you may begin to think that although your practiced productivity habits have resulted in success in the past, now perhaps they take too long or aren't appropriate for the current situation.
Each competing representation receives activation from other sources: deliberate attention activates representations of the intended task via 'top-down control' (or 'concentration'); while bottom-up involuntary influences (established emotional processing biases or well-practiced negative habits of thought) activate distracting threat representations.
He has already cemented his status as a somewhat unlikely sex symbol (though among New York's literary crowd, being pale, thin and occasionally bespectacled doesn't count against you) with a practiced charm and habit of leaning in close and locking eyes intensely in conversation.
In parts of Africa earth-eating is openly practiced and is an acceptable social habit and, consequently, the scientific research on earth-eating in African women is much more extensive compared to Bangladesh and India.
Hull argued that "habit strength," a result of practiced stimulus-response (S-R) activities promoted by reward, was the essential aspect of learning, which he viewed as a gradual process.
