Competitive Behavior
Feeding Behavior
Health Behavior
Behaviors 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. Life style is closely associated with health behavior and factors influencing life style are socioeconomic, educational, and cultural.
Social Behavior
Any behavior caused by or affecting another individual, usually of the same species.
Child Behavior
Any observable response or action of a child from 24 months through 12 years of age. For neonates or children younger than 24 months, INFANT BEHAVIOR is available.
Exploratory Behavior
Child Behavior Disorders
Maternal Behavior
The behavior patterns associated with or characteristic of a mother.
Behavior Therapy
The application of modern theories of learning and conditioning in the treatment of behavior disorders.
Stereotyped Behavior
Relatively invariant mode of behavior elicited or determined by a particular situation; may be verbal, postural, or expressive.
Aggression
Agonistic Behavior
Any behavior associated with conflict between two individuals.
Risk-Taking
Choice Behavior
Nesting Behavior
Self-Injurious Behavior
Appetitive Behavior
Social Behavior Disorders
Predatory Behavior
Instinctual behavior pattern in which food is obtained by killing and consuming other species.
Behavior, 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 behavior includes the emotional and physical overdependence on the object of habit in increasing amount or frequency.
Impulsive Behavior
Drinking Behavior
Illness Behavior
Compulsive Behavior
The behavior of performing an act persistently and repetitively without it leading to reward or pleasure. The act is usually a small, circumscribed behavior, almost ritualistic, yet not pathologically disturbing. Examples of compulsive behavior include twirling of hair, checking something constantly, not wanting pennies in change, straightening tilted pictures, etc.
Risk Reduction Behavior
Questionnaires
Consummatory Behavior
An act which constitutes the termination of a given instinctive behavior pattern or sequence.