Sentence examples for rigid behavioral from inspiring English sources

This can be very useful, for instance in cases of drug addiction and possibly personality disorders, in which the patient could benefit from an opportunity to challenge ingrained, rigid behavioral patterns of deeply held negative belief systems".

People with AS may analyze and distill their observations of social interaction into rigid behavioral guidelines, and apply these rules in awkward ways, such as forced eye contact, resulting in a demeanor that appears rigid or socially naive.

The operation of a rigid behavioral mechanism of territory selection, such as a preference for tall wetland vegetation, would easily explain the existence of ecological traps.

These are essential for making a deliberate effort to break habitual and rigid behavioral patterns in order to fulfill the desire to quit smoking.

The results imply that tall wetland vegetation is a long-term, effective environmental cue and that a preference for territories in which this type of landcover prevails has evolved into a rigid behavioral mechanism, supplemented by short-term individual experiences of breeding failure.

Finally, we built transitional graphs (see Fig. 5) that illustrate the probability of transition from 1 behavioral state to another, confirming the more rigid behavior in β2−/− mice (33, 43), with a majority of behavioral sequences that remain unchanged throughout the experiment.

I.L. could not handle the rigid SA behavioral expectations, including sitting in a particular position.

While it caused rigid social behavior in C57BL/6 mice, it restored behavioral flexibility in β 2−/− mice.

But success comes at a price: students and their families must abide by rigid academic and behavioral expectations, and the attrition rate for KIPP's students, in some schools, can be startlingly high.

KIPP "does great work despite the force of poverty," Abrams points out, but the non-profit depends heavily on philanthropists (to augment budgets), "tireless teachers, and students as well as families capable of abiding by rigid academic and behavioral expectations that limit its reach".

Popper thought of life as first producing "closed behavioral programs" or rigid DNA-based behavioral programs, and then, over time, natural selection developed these closed processes into "open behavioral programs" that were less rigid and open to more diverse environments.