What is "instinctual"

Usage examples of "instinctual".

Even adult chimpanzees and monkeys that have spent their whole lives in zoos and have never seen a snake share our instinctual herpetological fear.

Lesions in the monkey brain of the neocortical areas responsible for speech in humans fail to impair their instinctual vocalizations.

Schacht at least made an attempt to master his instinctual revulsion against telepathists, and that was more than some people bothered to do.

He remembered the changing, not so long ago, from female to male, and he remembered all of it in pictures, not in mere instinctual patterns and conditioned responses.

So Dahan was dead and Harun was lord Chanur, and a hani ship took a naive kid aboard and left him, at the farthest point hani traded, because he wasn't educated to think and wasn't educated to handle strangers, and because every species in the Compact believed that hani males were helpless, instinctual killers.

Perhaps as many as one hundred of their contingent had been killed with three times that number wounded, but the Karbarrans as a species had an instinctual way with such things-a way of meeting death head on and disempowering it.

There were no books on the subject, no X-rated videotapes, no guide to the mysteries of sex, but in some incredible instinctual way, they'd discovered oral sex, the sixty-nine position, the erogenous zones, erotic undressing, a dozen different positions, dirty talk, and playacting.

Years of instinctual behavior patterns had taught each puhlet to tuck its head under the thick neck ruff and protect its eyes and the sensitive membranes of its nose.

The instinctual programming in-side nonmechanical sentients-the desire to flee or fight when confronted with danger-still haunted them, still made it difficult for them to react with com-plete, calm logic.

Allowing the Child to act out its own instinctual impulses, and play games at random in the treatment group is a waste of the group's time and invasion of the rights and purposes of each individual group member, If permitted to continue, it sabotages the therapeutic contract of Transactional Analysis.

But strongest in Paul so that he felt it with his entire body was training and the instinctual reaction mechanism that had been hammered into him day after day, hour after hour on the practice floor.