normative pattern

collocation in English

meaningsofnormativeandpattern

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normative
adjective
uk
/ˈnɔː.mə.tɪv/
us
/ˈnɔːr.mə.t̬ɪv/
relating to rules, or making people obey rules, especially rules ...
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pattern
noun
uk
/ˈpæt.ən/
us
/ˈpæt̬.ɚn/
a particular way in which something is done, is organized, ...
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Most notably, word production was relatively in advance of word and phrase comprehension compared to thenormativepattern.
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However, this pattern of change must also be considered within thenormativepatternof desistance in antisocial behavior that typifies this period.
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Therefore, typology should not be viewed as anormativepattern, but rather as a reference to guide the design process.
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However, this detained sample overall did not show thenormativepatternfor faster recognition of probes following distress pictures.
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The basic idea behind the ' demonstration effect ' is to identify a mechanism by which children are socialised into accepting a generalnormativepatternof obligation to help the elderly.
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Thisnormativepatternof decline, then, is clearly observable when children are displaying physiological and behavioral patterns that suggest good emotion regulation regardless of their risk status.
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Specifically, cluster analyses of the data supported the notion that there are two basic patterns of vocabulary growth, but important exceptions to thenormativepatternfor each gender were identified.
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However, we lack data that would help to distinguish atypical from normative patterns of development.
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Similarly, adults who suffer from cognitive-emotional anomalies such as autism and depression will separate and integrate domains and emotions in ways different from normative patterns.
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It is concluded that individual perceptions of risk and responsibility have profound connections to state support, public policy and normative patterns of familial and employer assistance in later life.
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This is an important step in cluster analysis, since it allows for the exclusion of statistically eccentric cases that may obscure the more normative patterns in the data.
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By contrast, it is a chief advantage of inductive analyses that outliers are not dismissed as aberrant cases and are viewed instead as interesting exceptions to normative patterns.
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From such analyses it is possible to examine both normative patterns of receptive and expressive language development and the extent to which individuals vary on these parameters.
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