environmental contingencies
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environmental
adjective
uk/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.təl/us/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.t̬əl/
relating to ...
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contingency
noun[C]
uk/kənˈtɪn.dʒən.si/us/kənˈtɪn.dʒən.si/
something that might possibly happen in the future, usually causing problems or making further ...
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There are no neat, prepackaged genetic "programs," one for every conceivableenvironmentalcontingency, waiting for a particular stimulus set to trigger them off.
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One common metaphor is the "developmental switch," an ethological mechanism, analogous to imprinting, in which a specificenvironmentalcontingencydirectly triggers an innate releasing mechanism for the conditional strategy.
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Behavioral theories of depression emphasize the importance of learning and environmental contingencies.
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These behavior-environment relationships are seen, in behavioral theory, to be the result of environmental contingencies that have worked, distally, in the history of the species.
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This episode evidences the connection between hunters and hunted, men and monsters, all ensnared in the same biological and environmental contingencies.
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To the extent that pain expression is influenced by environmental contingencies, however, "amplification" could equally plausibly constitute the release of suppression according to evolved contingent propensities that guide behaviour.
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Emotions can be considered, in part, as a set of special sensory systems with a very broad range of sensitivities to environmental contingencies and mechanisms for communicating about them.
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This view seeks to explain behavior, including private events like mental images, solely by reference to the environmental contingencies impinging on the human or animal.
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Furthermore, naturally occurring groups tend to be highly sensitive to outside influences and environmental contingencies, but few models account for these influences.
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Such movement may then be explained, depending on the theorist, as caused by environmental contingencies, inner entities such as thoughts or motives, or biological states of affairs.
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