| coronary-prone behaviour | The behaviour that characterises type A personality pattern. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| predatory behaviour | Instinctual behaviour pattern in which food is obtained by killing and consuming other species. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health behaviour | Behaviours expressed by individuals to protect, maintain or promote their health status. For example, proper diet, and appropriate exercise are activities perceived to influence health status. Lifestyle is closely associated with health behaviour and factors influencing life style are socioeconomic, educational, and cultural. (12 Dec 1998) |
| helping behaviour | Behaviours associated with the giving of assistance or aid to individuals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| homing behaviour | Instinctual patterns of activity related to a specific area including ability of certain animals to return to a given place when displaced from it, often over great distances using navigational clues such as those used in migration. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-injurious behaviour | Behaviour in which persons hurt or harm themselves without the motive of suicide or of sexual deviation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hookean behaviour | The behaviour of a perfectly elastic body; i.e., the strain is directly proportional to the stress. See: Hooke's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sex behaviour | Sexual activities of humans. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sex behaviour, animal | Sexual activities of animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social behaviour | Any behaviour caused by or affecting another individual, usually of the same species. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social behaviour disorders | Behaviours which are at variance with the expected social norm and which affect other individuals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| spatial behaviour | Reactions of an individual or groups of individuals with relation to the immediate surrounding area including the animate or inanimate objects within that area. (12 Dec 1998) |
| stereotyped behaviour | Relatively invariant mode of behaviour elicited or determined by a particular situation; may be verbal, postural, or expressive. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nesting behaviour | Animal behaviour associated with the nest; includes construction, effects of size and material; behaviour of the adult during the nesting period and the effect of the nest on the behaviour of the young. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sucking behaviour | Any suction exerted by the mouth; response of the mammalian infant to draw milk from the breast. Includes sucking on inanimate objects. Not to be used for thumb sucking, which is indexed under fingersucking. (12 Dec 1998) |