Examples of anticipation

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People are very aware of changes in their memory and abilities, and show awareness, attention and anticipation in other, often unrecognised, instances.
A decline in the ability to imagine and foresee undertaking activities in the future marked the loss of anticipation.
Only three dyads made no mention of awareness, attention or anticipation.
Anticipation, then, is an orientation towards the future that is based on being aware in the present of past events and experiences.
Of note, anticipation of outcomes is not included in the following section.
After some anticipation, the caliph initiated legal proceedings to dissolve the marriage.
To investigate the developmental perspectives of people growing older, the anticipation of possible gains is studied.
Recon®guration of task schemas seems to require a relevant stimulus input and not simply an anticipation of such an input.
I read and re-read the written summary with growing anticipation, then anger.
Of course, such anticipations lacked the syncretic power of today's models.
Note that money illusion might arise from psychological reasons and/or systematic lack of information regarding relative prices and systematic errors in anticipations.
Twenty of the 47 people who responded to the question on negative anticipations (43%) had none of these.
The liberation of geometry into abstraction is one of the most profound mathematical anticipations.
Furthermore, stronger control beliefs were associated with more frequent anticipations of future achievement (5b).
Conversations often required intense concentration, which caused fatigue, communication anxiety and anticipations of conversational failure.
Accordingly, we have adopted a life-span approach in a study of responses to and anticipations of personal ageing in and from mid-life.
Among the remaining five errors, only four could reasonably sustain an explanation of tone anticipations or perseverations.
We counted 136 of these errors, of which 74 were anticipations, 57 perseverations, and 5 exchanges.
Memories and anticipations belong to the third zone of awareness, so-called fantasy activity, which is somehow unreal.
To examine the effects of these personal and situational factors on gain anticipations, multiple regression analyses were performed.
Among the anticipations, those concerned with generativity - caring for others, societal commitment, vocational ambitions - substantially decrease at about the age of 50 years.
Future gains in the domain of education and culture (2c) and anticipations of societal commitments (3c) were predominant among the more highly educated.
The frequency of anticipations and perseverations is also a candidate for listener bias.
The discursive anticipations or idealizations termed "validity claims" guarantee the possibility of verbal and nonverbal interaction.
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