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单词 volitional
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volitional
adjective
formal
uk
/vəˈlɪʃ.ən.əl/us
/vəˈlɪʃ.ən.əl/
actingas aresultof adecisionorchoice; done because someone hasdecidedorchosento do it:
行使意志的，选择的，决定的
mentalprocessesover which we have volitionalcontrol我们能够通过意志控制的心理过程
Theactionis notmechanical; it is volitional.这个动作不是机械的，而是有意为之的。
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  • Thecomplaintsallegedvolitionalactsratherthanaccidentaloccurrences.
  • Thepurposeof theinsanitydefenseis toensurethat acriminalsanctionisimposedonly on those who had thecognitiveand volitionalcapacitytocomplywith thelaw.
  • This is atimeoflifein which youbecomea volitionalconsumerasopposedto beingdressedbyyourparents.
  • The firstdrinkmay be volitional, but after onebecomesaddicted, itbecomesacompulsion.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Decisions and deciding
  • ascription
  • balance
  • be make or break forsomeone/somethingidiom
  • be on the horns of a dilemmaidiom
  • choose
  • clinch
  • fight
  • fish
  • fix
  • if/when it comes to the crunchidiom
  • in the balanceidiom
  • judgment call
  • judicial review
  • make or breaksomethingidiom
  • resolution
  • top-down
  • toss up
  • unadjudicated
  • unelected
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(Definition ofvolitionalfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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Instead of enhancing responsiveness, cognitive load inhibits the ability to respond to suggestion, just as it does with nonhypnoticvolitionalbehavior.
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Conceptual distance decreases (and subjectivity increases) in case a speaker reports her ownvolitionalactions (12a).
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Consequently, if impeded agreement is a criterion for nonpaternalism then some policy responses to cognitive orvolitionalfailures will meet this criterion.
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Saccades are reflexively triggered by a suddenly appearing visual target and are also undervolitionalcontrol.
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In such cases, there is no bar against these individuals exercisingvolitionalcontrol in per forming actions believed by them to be wrong.
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The dream process is seen as having "no primary ideational,volitional, or emotional content" (p. 1347).
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All behavior, normal and abnormal alike, is the product of congenital or acquired conditions affecting emotional orvolitionalpredispositions.
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It characterizes constrainedvolitionalneeds for valueless objects as disjunctive.
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This implied that it was higher-level activity, with avolitionalor psychical causal form, which integrated lower-level processes into consciousness.
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An initial assessment is made of sensory and motor function of the swallowing mechanisms, airways protection, phonation,volitionalcough and the cough reflex.
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Lesions in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex cause disorders ofvolitionalcontrol, self-monitoring, and other executive deficits, but they have no effect on dreaming.
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From this process a series of both affective andvolitionalstates arose like doubt, imagination, and pleasure and desire.
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Thesevolitionalinterpretations cannot, therefore, be due to semantic retention in will.
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A related distinction is that between automatic andvolitionalactions.
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This contrast represents nothing less than the distinction between alienated and fullyvolitionalforms of behavior-a contrast relevant to every behavioral domain.
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