Some articles on responses, response:
... The responses are believed to provide indications of attitudes, beliefs, motivations, or other mental states ... There is debate over whether or not sentence completion tests elicit responses from conscious thought rather than unconscious states ... sentence completion test form may be relatively short, such as those used to assess responses to advertisements, or much longer, such as those used to assess personality ...
... may find themselves facing one of several responses to conformity ... These types of responses to conformity vary in their degree of public agreement versus private agreement ... Another type of social response, which does not involve conformity with the majority of the group, is called convergence ...
... In his response in the Notices, Keisler (1977, p. 269) asked why did Paul Halmos, the Bulletin book review editor, choose a constructivist as the reviewer? Comparing the use of the law of excluded middle (rejected by constructivists) to wine, Keisler equated Halmos' choice with "choosing a teetotaller to sample wine" ...
... Negative responses are defined as a worsening of a household's financial situation over the previous six months, expectations that the financial ... is then derived by adding the percentage of positive responses, subtracting the percentage of negative responses, adding a scalar equal to 400 and indexing the resulting series to a ... The scalar is introduced to force the value of the Index to zero if all responses are negative ...
... In addition, there are a variety of simulator systems that provide “dummy” guns with recoil, and even systems that use pressured air to cycle a weapon incorporating a laser device ... These systems, however, do not use laser bullets as defined in this article ...
Famous quotes containing the word responses:
“Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Research shows clearly that parents who have modeled nurturant, reassuring responses to infants’ fears and distress by soothing words and stroking gentleness have toddlers who already can stroke a crying child’s hair. Toddlers whose special adults model kindliness will even pick up a cookie dropped from a peer’s high chair and return it to the crying peer rather than eat it themselves!”
—Alice Sterling Honig (20th century)
“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)