Sentence examples for preferred item from inspiring English sources

Overall, the present study showed that backward chaining is an effective procedure to teach dogs to release a highly preferred item on cue and importantly reduce category II and III behaviors, at least short term.

The present study investigated whether a clicker-training approach, backward chaining, could decrease the frequency of category II (e.g., ears flattened and/or hovering over the object) and category III (e.g., staring and/or stiffening up) behaviors by establishing an alternative target response of releasing preferred item on cue.

One third to one half could not afford to go to the health care institution that they preferred (item 22).

Males with cotton ball gifts (preferred item by WG males) performed a significantly lower number of wrapping bouts (2.5 ± 0.3, N = 8) compared to males with fly gifts (4.1 ± 0.3, N = 20) (Mann-Whitney U-test: U = 37, p = 0.03).

Simply asking individuals to rate or choose their preferred item from a list may yield no more information than that they want all the benefits and none of the costs.

My ten-year-old crimes had mostly been shoplifting junk food — the Suzy Q was a preferred item, along with Yodels — but the sentiment behind a theft like this, as much as it is explicitly about some material gain, is also the deep wish of all ten-year-olds to not be bored, to have a some caper, some project, some agency of revenge against the world.

Aggression was maintained by access to specific preferred items.

We first taught three nonverbal students with autism to use a VOCA to request access to preferred items.

Mand training is a process whereby the learner is taught to request highly preferred items under conditions when those items are most valuable.

The results of the investigation demonstrated that presenting preferred items and activities increased the indices of happiness compared to baseline rates of indices of happiness.

The wise or virtuous person acts with a view to obtaining preferred items and avoiding their opposites, but it is as an expression of his perfected reason that acts of selection are good, not because they secure, or tend to secure, preferred items for him or protect, or tend to protect, him from their dispreferred opposites.