Sentence examples for purpose of eliciting from inspiring English sources

In assessment, clinical psychologists administer and interpret psychological tests, either for the purpose of evaluating individuals' relative intelligence or other capabilities or for the purpose of eliciting mental characteristics that will aid in diagnosing a particular mental disorder.

In a highly controversial case, Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478 (1964), he held that a criminal suspect must have the assistance of counsel when, prior to his indictment, he is interrogated by police for the purpose of eliciting a confession.

As we have seen in the first section, neuromarketing companies are testing subliminal techniques such as embedding subliminal stimuli with the purpose of eliciting responses (e.g. preferring item A instead of B) that people cannot consciously register.

These strategies can be designed and implemented in the microgrid׳s supervisory control system for the purpose of eliciting EE and thriftiness in consumers to build ES in the system.

The techniques are based on tactics used by Chinese Communists against American soldiers during the Korean War for the purpose of eliciting false confessions for propaganda purposes.

Rand also discovered a breed of message-sending whose existence scientists had theorized but never before observed: the sending of a message for the purpose of eliciting a message about whether a message has been sent.

The time has come for political candidates to refuse to answer inquiries into hypothetical incidents of rape or teenage pregnancy within their families for the purposes of eliciting a candid response on the abortion issue ("Once More, the Question of Abortion Dogs McCain," news article, Jan . 27.

The individual interviews were done for purposes of eliciting information on how psychoeducation would be carried out in a most appropriate manner using the psychoeducation tool kit that the nurses and psychologists had read prior to the interviews.

The only way of defining a spike threshold for the purpose of comparing EPSCs is via the probability of eliciting spikes.

First, the type of uncertain information to be elicited; second, the purpose of the elicitation (i.e. how the elicited information is intended to be used) and third, the available resources.

But these tests also serve a purpose beyond eliciting an angry response from the U.S. and the international community.