Sentence examples for stove checking from inspiring English sources

In Study 3, following a stove checking task, participants were randomized to incompleteness induction or control conditions, and urge to check was assessed afterwards.

4. We humans are creative and hard working and will engage in all sorts of behaviors (otherwise known as compulsions) to provide temporary relief from anxiety and the illusion of control. 5. Compulsions don't just take the form of handwashing and stove checking.

In Study 2, two different measures of incompleteness were predictive of urge to check following a stove checking task.

But one woman, Ruth Jackson, who lives nearby, said she had been smelling gas in recent days, and had her stove checked.

I get up and go to the kitchen, look behind the refrigerator and the stove, check inside the cabinet under the sink.

At BONNIE SLOTNICK COOKBOOKS (163 W. 10th St.; 989-8962), there are a lot of things you don't usually see in a bookstore: a circa-1922 Home Pride enamel stove, a checked, enamel-top kitchen table, and any number of eggcups, saltshakers, and pot holders.

They then bought new clothes, a portable stove and checked into a hotel.

She walked to the stove and checked the flame, like she'd forgotten she'd just lowered the rice, and checked on the chicken in the oven.

Food may also take longer to cook on an electric stove, so check everything you make.

My grandmother was there, skittering up and down the galley like a bird on a tree limb -- opening the pantry, checking the stove, leaning into the fridge, just as she always has.

Also, unlike patients with OCD whose symptoms change over time in terms of focus and severity (e.g. from washing of hands to checking locks, stoves, appliances, etc) [ 9], TTM patients usually only present with hair-pulling without evolution to non-self-injurious compulsive rituals.