Sentence examples for psychologically motivated from inspiring English sources
It doesn't seem psychologically motivated by what's going on, but rather a plot device thought up by a writer".
The first was based on the general scientific position of determinism, which was quite prevalent in 19th-century science: although no apparent physical causes could be implicated, these neurotic symptoms were nevertheless caused, or determined, perhaps not by one but by multiple factors, some of which were psychologically motivated.
I especially liked Ron Hutchinson's Calculated Risk, which shows the secrecy shrouding the 1945 Labour government's development of the atomic bomb: Hutchinson even suggests that Attlee was psychologically motivated by a desire not to be overshadowed by the memory of Churchill.
Claims for universal underpinnings of language acquisition are discussed, including Chomskyan-based nativist claims for formal principles of Universal Grammar (UG) on the one hand, and psychologically motivated claims for extralinguistic perceptual and cognitive constraints shared by children acquiring different languages, on the other.
Risk seeking could be psychologically motivated in individual cases, but for all our patients taken together it would lead to overall loss.
From a robotics point of view, for instance, [ 39] formulates a psychologically motivated definition of affordances as, broadly speaking, a relationship between an agent, an object and the environment.
But what about psychologically motivating the Giants?
"Doing something new, and fun, really is psychologically motivating".
"The game-playing experience is empowering," Ms. McEwen said, and "the mechanics of the game are psychologically motivating".
The training regime will be an action video game (visual) task rather than a psychophysical one, as video game experience is known to be physiologically arousing and psychologically motivating (Green, Li, & Bavelier, 2010).
This delivery of both educational and psychological components in a single programme offers the potential for people to learn about their diabetes in a psychologically motivating and confidence enhancing structure.
