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behavior
  1. (uncountable) Human conduct relative to social norms.
  2. (uncountable) The way a living creature behaves or acts generally.
  3. (uncountable, informal) A state of probation about one's conduct.
  4. (countable) An instance of the way a living creature behaves.
  5. (biology) Observable response produced by an organism.
  6. (uncountable) The way a device or system operates.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “What could possibly have possessed him to engage in such aberrant behavior?”
      “Until recently, very little was known about the behavior of apes in their natural habitat.”
      “This materially affects what can be revealed about the behavior of batteries during testing.”
behaver
  1. Someone or something that behaves.
  2. (psychology) An individual whose behaviour is being monitored or studied.
behaviour
  1. The way a living creature behaves or acts.
  2. The way a device or system operates.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “He won the confidence and hearts of his friends with his commendable behaviour.”
      “Due to his behaviour upon hearing that he was no longer welcome, he was then arrested by Sussex Police and spent 14 hours in Hollingbury Police Station only to be released on bail.”
      “Perhaps this is because they mimic evolved solutions, so their behaviour seems more natural.”
behaviorism
  1. An approach to psychology focusing on observable behavior, denying any independent significance for mind, and usually assuming that behavior is determined by the environment.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Psychological behaviorism is associationism without appeal to mental events.”
      “Perhaps the shift from behaviorism to cognitive psychology has given educators a richer vocabulary to describe mental processes.”
      “He invented the belief that one can cure an autistic child by using behaviorism.”
behavioristics
  1. (biology) The study of the behavior of an organism in relation to its environment
behaviouralism
  1. (philosophy) The branch of philosophy concerned with objective behaviour
behavioreme
  1. A segmentable unit of human behavior.
behaviourism
  1. British spelling standard spelling of behaviorism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “When behaviourism became the dominant paradigm, there were still psychoanalysts probing the depths of the psyche.”
      “In the 1940s, hereditarianism and behaviourism were not independent of each other, but instead fed off each other.”
      “Like cognitive psychology, activity theory rejects behaviourism and attaches great significance to the cognitive regulation of behaviour.”
behaviourist
  1. British spelling standard spelling of behaviorist.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But in 1996, a Swiss animal behaviourist noticed that mice and rats reared this way might actually be decidedly abnormal.”
      “Actually it is possible to formulate the whole traffic enforcement activity in behaviourist terms.”
      “Tolman called himself a behaviourist and ostensibly was bound by Watson's insistence on objectivity.”
behavioralism
  1. (American) Alternative spelling of behaviouralism
behaviouralist
  1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of behavioralist
behaviorist
  1. One who studies behavior of humans or animals.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But he is easily the most visible behaviorist, based on citation frequency and surveys of influential behavioral scientists.”
      “An animal behaviorist I knew used to demonstrate this in laboratory rats that were previously shaped to the Skinner box procedures.”
      “The second abandons hope for reductionist exploitation of behaviorist ideas on behalf of materialism.”
behavioralist
  1. (American) an advocate of behavioralism
behavioureme
  1. Britain spelling of behavioreme
behaving
  1. (philosophy) behaviour
behaviouralists
  1. plural of behaviouralist
behavioralists
  1. plural of behavioralist
behaviouremes
  1. plural of behavioureme
behaviourisms
behaviourists
  1. plural of behaviourist
  2. Examples:
    1. “But details on those are for the behaviourists, and our focus is really our own standard of living.”
      “For example, Freudians and behaviourists had different methods, but they also had a different agenda.”
      “A team of behaviourists were employed in the United States to find out what sort of noises appeal to dogs.”
behavioremes
  1. plural of behavioreme
behaviorisms
behaviorists
  1. plural of behaviorist
  2. Examples:
    1. “Eventually, the behaviorists caved in and exempted the bipedal ape from their theory of everything.”
      “Over time, the behaviorists have compiled a long list of biases and heuristics.”
      “Sticklebacks are one of the most studied fishes by ichthyologists and behaviorists.”
behaviours
  1. plural of behaviour
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The behaviours generated include withdrawal from social activities and a search for relief.”
      “It is essential to teach and model desired behaviours, and the benefits of positive reinforcement are well established.”
      “Dynamic rearrangements in the actin cytoskeleton underlie a wide range of cell behaviours.”
behavings
  1. plural of behaving
behaviors
  1. plural of behavior
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Although these sort of behaviors or consequences often accompany addiction, they are neither always present or inevitable.”
      “All subjects were surveyed about their use of health promoting behaviors, including physical activity.”
      “Alcohol may serve as a cue, making certain behaviors more accessible and likely.”
behavers
  1. plural of behaver
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