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It is worth recalling that the behaviorist school of psychology also explained human and animal behavior by a backward-looking and unthinking adaptive mechanism, namely, reinforcement.
However, neither adults nor children participate in culture in the mechanistic, unthinking way implied in social learning models of development.
The - age before the 18th and 19th century "revivalist" ijtihad movements was accordingly viewed as marred by rigid and unthinking imitation.
Ritual activity can sometimes be a matter of unthinking repetition, while sometimes it is a strategic re-invention.
They function by unthinking evolution, learning, and adaptation.
It is exceedingly rare for unthinking nature or even inadvertent human action to confront us with an essentially binar y decision.
Secondly, can they really be descriptive if, like unthinking looking-glasses, they reflect social reality?
In these circumstances, there is a risk in unthinking acceptance of procedures that have been developed for unfrozen conditions.
This act has the same automatic, facile and unthinking character as any other gesture which forms the stuff of social interaction.
The 18th and 19th century "revivalists," naturally enough, tended to portray their opponents as rigid and unthinking imitators.
I propose that we have made the unthinking assumption that one particular part of their world is smoothly continuous with ours.
He has suffered little in the course of the action, though he has experienced the pangs of the unthinking and the selfish.
This is not to say it was unthinking or reactive, but it seemed to flow naturally out of what was already self-evident to them.
Exploration carries within it implicit beliefs of an unthinking randomness - at worst, a low-level activity akin to 'messing about'.
However, in practice, with indiscriminate and unthinking use, they do increase the rate, if only because of the difficulty in detection and interpreting technical artefacts.
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