behavioral study
1Behavioral activation — is a third generation behavior therapy for treating depression. It is one of many functional analytic psychotherapies which are based on a Skinnerian psychological model of behavior change, generally referred to as Applied Behavior Analysis. This …
2Behavioral economics — and its related area of study, behavioral finance, use social, cognitive and emotional factors in understanding the economic decisions of individuals and institutions performing economic functions, including consumers, borrowers and investors,… …
3Behavioral ecology — is the study of the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal behavior, and the roles of behavior in enabling an animal to adapt to its environment (both intrinsic and extrinsic). Behavioral ecology emerged from ethology after Niko Tinbergen… …
4Behavioral health — Behavioral health, as a general concept, refers the reciprocal relationship between human behavior, individually or socially, and the well being of the body, mind, and spirit, whether the later are considered individually or as an integrated… …
5Behavioral momentum — is a theory in Quantitative Analysis of Behavior and is a comparative metaphor based on physical momentum. It describes the general relation between resistance to change (persistence of behavior) and the rate of reinforcement obtained in a given… …
6Behavioral engineering — is intended to identify issues associated with the interface of technology and the human operators in a system and to generate recommended design practices that consider the strengths and limitations of the human operators. The behavior of the… …
7Behavioral communication — is a psychological construct that addresses people s use of day to day behaviors as a form of communication. Specifically, it refers to people s tendency to express feelings, needs, and thoughts by means of indirect messages and behavioral… …
8behavioral science — n a science (as psychology, sociology, or anthropology) that deals with human action and seeks to generalize about human behavior in society behavioral scientist n * * * the interdisciplinary study of behavior for the purpose of understanding… …
9behavioral sciences — study of human and animal behavior, study of modes of acting and reacting …
10Behavioral sink — In 1958, ethologist John B. Calhoun conducted over population experiments on rats on a farmland in Rockfille, Maryland which resulted in the publication of an article titled Crowding into the Behavioral Sink ( Scientific American, 206: 139 148 )… …
