This morning, full of new-Monday vim, I printed out all 407 pages of the stimulus bill, thinking that I should commit an act of think-tank citizenship and read it.
(GP 1, p.4) A doctor's experiences become the stimulus for thinking about his own death.
Evidence suggests that in many Western populations, aggressive men may indeed impose a net direct cost on their partners (Sutherland et al. 1998; Coker et al. 2000; Campbell 2002), and this could explain why Western women are particularly averse to masculinized stimuli when thinking about long-term relationships.
Introduce pleasing stimuli while thinking actively about a bully from your school days, or the embarrassment you felt when you broke up with your partner by listening to soothing music, or taking a comfortable bath with scented candles, or by drinking mimosas on the porch in the summertime.
"They react to stimuli literally without thinking," Macdonald writes, and a whole lot of those stimuli can provoke their hunting instinct: squeaky doors, passing bicycles, real pheasants, but also black-and-white drawings of them, Joan Sutherland on the radio.
Executive functions occupy the higher levels of thought: reasoning, planning, directing attention to information that is relevant (and away from stimuli that aren't), and thinking about what to do rather than acting on impulse or instinct.
These are the projects that would create jobs and efficient movement of goods that we should be thinking about as stimulus---green jobs, not fried boat hulls.
Both Haworth and O'Neill said the gold market reflects the lack of inflation seen globally, even as central banks like the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank are loosening their policies and thinking of pouring more stimulus into their economies.
When an individual organism (O) affects the stimuli in any way for example, by thinking about a response the response is considered mediated.
