| behaviour | The observable response a person makes to any situation. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| behaviour and behaviour mechanisms | The observable response made to a situation and the unconscious processes underlying it. (12 Dec 1998) |
| behaviour chain | Related behaviours in a series in which each response serves as a stimulus for the next response. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behaviour disorder | General term used to denote mental illness or psychological dysfunction, specifically those mental, emotional, or behavioural subclasses for which organic correlates do not exist. See: antisocial personality disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behaviour reflex | A reflex that is gradually developed by training and association through the frequent repetition of a definite stimulus. See: conditioning. Synonym: acquired reflex, behaviour reflex, trained reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behaviour therapy | The application of modern theories of learning and conditioning in the treatment of behaviour disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| behaviour, addictive | The observable, measurable, and often pathological activity of an organism that portrays its inability to overcome a habit resulting in an insatiable craving for a substance or for performing certain acts. The addictive behaviour includes the emotional and physical overdependence on the object of habit in increasing amount or frequency. (12 Dec 1998) |
| behaviour, animal | The observable response an animal makes to any situation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| behavioural | Pertaining to behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behavioural disciplines and activities | The specialties in psychiatry and psychology, their diagnostic techniques and tests, their therapeutic methods, and psychiatric and psychological services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| behavioural epidemic | An epidemic originating in behavioural patterns (in contrast to invading microorganisms); examples include medieval dancing mania, episodes of crowd panic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behavioural genetics | The study of heritable factors in behavioural patterns, as by pedigree analysis, biochemical abnormality, or karyotypic analysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behavioural health | An interdisciplinary field dedicated to promoting a philosophy of health that stresses individual responsibility in the application of behavioural and biomedical science knowledge and techniques to the maintenance of health and prevention of illness and dysfunction by a variety of self-initiated individual and shared activities. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behavioural immunogen | Not smoking, regular exercise, and related health-enhancing personal habits and lifestyle of an individual which are associated with a decreased risk of physical illness and dysfunction, and with greater longevity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| behavioural manifestation | A manifestation characterised by defects in personality structure and attendant behaviour with minimal anxiety and little or no sense of distress, indicative of a psychiatric disorder; occasionally encephalitis or head injury will produce the clinical picture which is properly diagnosed as chronic brain disorder with behavioural manifestation's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adaptive behaviour | Any behaviour that enables an organism to adjust to a particular situation or environment. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| adaptive behaviour scales | A behavioural assessment device to quantify the levels of skills of mentally retarded and developmentally delayed individuals in interacting with the environment; consists of three developmentally related factors: 1) personal self-sufficiency, e.g., eating, dressing; 2) community self-sufficiency, e.g., shopping, communicating; 3) personal and social responsibility, e.g., use of leisure time, job performance. See: intelligence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adient behaviour | Animal searching behaviour. The variable introductory phase of an instinctive behaviour pattern or sequence, e.g., looking for food, or sequential courtship patterns prior to mating. (12 Dec 1998) |
| adolescent behaviour | Any observable response or action of an adolescent. (12 Dec 1998) |
| agonistic behaviour | Any behaviour associated with conflict between two individuals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ambient behaviour | <psychology> The movement of an organism away from a certain type of stimulus, such as electric shock. Compare: appetitive behaviour. Synonym: ambient behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| appetitive behaviour | Animal searching behaviour. The variable introductory phase of an instinctive behaviour pattern or sequence, e.g., looking for food, or sequential courtship patterns prior to mating. (12 Dec 1998) |
| aversive behaviour | <psychology> The movement of an organism away from a certain type of stimulus, such as electric shock. Compare: appetitive behaviour. Synonym: ambient behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paranoid behaviour | Behaviour exhibited by individuals who are overly suspicious, but without the constellation of symptoms characteristic of paranoid personality disorder or paranoid type of schizophrenia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| verbal behaviour | Includes both producing and responding to words, either written or spoken. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mass behaviour | Collective behaviour of an aggregate of individuals giving the appearance of unity of attitude, feeling, and motivation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal behaviour | The behaviour patterns associated with or characteristic of a mother. (12 Dec 1998) |
| passive-aggressive behaviour | Apparently compliant behaviour, with intrinsic obstructive or stubborn qualities, to cover deeply felt aggressive feelings that cannot be more directly expressed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paternal behaviour | The behaviour patterns associated with or characteristic of a father. (12 Dec 1998) |
| REM behaviour disorder | A disorder characterised by lack of the atonia of voluntary muscles that normally occurs in REM sleep. (05 Mar 2000) |