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He was one of the prepotent foreign policy makers of Turkey in 1990s.

The issue was finally settled by a revised standard in 1930, which was based on four prepotent dogs.

Second, inhibition is one's capacity to supersede responses that are prepotent in a given situation.

Inhibitory control, often conceptualized as an executive function, is the ability to inhibit or hold back a prepotent response.

Buccinator, Cecelia thought to herself, had only been the most prepotent sire of the past three decades for performance horses.

In such a task, the participant has to inhibit a prepotent response (for instance stop pressing a button when a red signal appears).

The machine from which it was drawing its power was a simple, though exceedingly prepotent, machine service unit.

He was an outstandingly prepotent sire, eclipsed only by his grandson Northern Dancer.

Apart from their direct symptoms, people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, can have specific problems with set shifting and inhibition of prepotent responses.

This task calls for inhibition of a prepotent response as well as planning and executing an eye movement that contradicts instinct.

Executive function difficulties may manifest in terms of one's ability to shift between tasks, plan as well as organize, and also inhibit a prepotent response.

Behavioral Inhibition: Suppression of prepotent response.

A prepotent response is a response for which immediate reinforcement (positive or negative) is available or has been previously associated with that response.

Tesio, who also bred the undefeated and prepotent sire Nearco, did not live to see Ribot develop into a champion.

He was an extremely popular stud dog, being prepotent, and especially due to his reputation as one of the first to breed true to type Yorkshire Terriers.

The executive functions are often invoked when it is necessary to override these prepotent responses that might otherwise be automatically elicited by stimuli in the external environment.

Among the national galleries of the world, the one in Ottawa is relatively young, though not as young (or so prepotent) as the one in Washington.

Impressive, a triple descendant of Three Bars, became the most prepotent sire of Quarter Horse halter horses from the 1970s through the 1990s.

He was a great swell in London, too, and a prime favorite with King Henry VIII, of whom he gave us a prepotent likeness.

A persisting central stimulus can largely suppress the orienting response, suggesting that cortically based mechanisms, when present, are prepotent in competition with the subcortical orienting mechanism.

Maslow described human needs as ordered in a prepotent hierarchy-a pressing need would need to be mostly satisfied before someone would give their attention to the next highest need.

The cattle did not have to be good beasts, nor produce copious milk, nor excellent eating meat; there was no merit in having a prepotent bull which threw fine animals.

A bay gelding by Archive out of Bright Cherry, he was the grandson of the unbeaten (in 14 races) flat racehorse and prepotent sire Nearco.

Problems inhibiting prepotent responses are linked with deficits in pre-frontal cortex (PFC) functioning, which is a common dysfunction associated with ADHD and other impulse-control disorders.

Bred and raced by prominent horseman Alfred G. Vanderbilt II, she was sired by Calumet Farm's prepotent sire Bull Lea.