Crossword clues for behaviour
behaviour
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
behaviour
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a behaviour pattern
▪ He studied animal behaviour patterns.
a code of behaviour
▪ Each tribe follows its own code of behaviour.
a pattern of behaviour
▪ It's easy to get stuck in the same old pattern of behaviour.
acceptable behaviour
▪ Here, the students set the standards for acceptable behaviour.
antisocial behaviour
▪ She was finding it hard to cope with her son’s increasingly antisocial behaviour.
behaviour modification (=when someone changes their behaviour)
▪ A star chart, in which you give a star to a child as a reward, is a simple behaviour modification technique.
changing patterns of work/behaviour etc
▪ Changing patterns of work mean that more people are able to work from home.
criminal behaviour
▪ Is it possible that the tendency to criminal behaviour is inherited?
disorderly conduct/behaviour
▪ He was arrested for disorderly conduct.
exhibit signs/symptoms/behaviour etc
▪ a patient who is exhibiting classic symptoms of mental illness
fraudulent activity/behaviour/conduct
human behaviourBritish English, human behavior American English
▪ We study the aspects of human behaviour that result from our social upbringing.
improper behaviour/conduct/dealings etc
▪ allegations of improper banking practices
▪ improper sexual conduct
inappropriate behaviour/response/language etc
riotous behaviour
▪ Their riotous behaviour led to their arrest.
sportsmanlike behaviour
▪ As a club, we try to encourage sportsmanlike behaviour.
violent acts/behaviour
▪ His dad terrified them all with his violent behaviour.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acceptable
▪ To summarize, norms define appropriate and acceptable behaviour in specific situations.
▪ Similarly, conspicuous consumption or display is now regarded as an acceptable form of behaviour.
▪ This minefield is compounded by the moral nature of the problem; about what is and is not acceptable behaviour.
▪ Commonly, both are used consistently to help replace an undesirable behaviour with acceptable behaviour.
▪ The dividing line between acceptable and anti-social behaviour was often blurred.
▪ Criminal libel is unlikely to occur other than rarely, but is available to define the limits of acceptable behaviour.
▪ One reason for this reluctance to take action against the process of monopolization is the difficulty of distinguishing acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.
▪ This sharing of expectations about acceptable behaviour ensures conformity.
aggressive
▪ There is disputed evidence suggesting that cinema and television violence encourages aggressive behaviour.
▪ Fortunately parents can do a lot to tone down the aggressive behaviour.
▪ They felt that the aggressive behaviour and attention-seeking which are more prevalent among males should not be reinforced by teacher responses.
▪ For example, one individual's aggressive behaviour was ascribed to his loss of able-bodied friends following impairment.
▪ Manipulation is just another form of aggressive behaviour.
▪ The three categories of passive, aggressive and assertive behaviour are a useful way of differentiating and describing interpersonal communication styles.
▪ If you are intent on sorting out the problem, take courage and talk to your boss privately about his/her aggressive behaviour.
▪ Rape and battering are merely one end of a continuum of aggressive forms of behaviour of men to women.
bad
▪ The butcher chases them off the rock with kicks and abusive shouts, as though punishing them for bad behaviour.
▪ In established States, less serious forms of bad behaviour are also permitted.
▪ And, more importantly, some one who doesn't let her get away with tantrums, bossiness or bad behaviour.
▪ It is generally not useful to speculate that such time-removed antecedents are associated with bad behaviour.
▪ Try to catch him or her out in good as well as bad behaviour.
▪ Reintroducing those foods brings the bad behaviour back along with the wheezing or runny nose.
▪ Much anxiety was expressed before the experiment lest televising would encourage showing off, bad behaviour or rowdiness.
▪ It is usually much easier to identify bad behaviour but the process of behaviour change has two sides.
criminal
▪ Thus, some policemen are urged by their tough-minded colleagues to treat marginal incidents as criminal behaviour and are encouraged into action.
▪ He maintains that there is a link between characteristics such as extroversion and criminal behaviour.
▪ Eysenck then argues that extroversion is the inherited basis of criminal behaviour.
▪ Most laws against corporate criminal behaviour require that intention be proved before guilt can be established.
▪ These involved marital, loss or separation, social relations or isolation, and criminal behaviour problems.
▪ While such notions may all contains some elements of truth, they are by no means complete explanations of criminal behaviour.
▪ Then, once located, the subjects have to be convinced that they can safely discuss their criminal behaviour.
▪ Merton's model or theory does not adequately explain all types of criminal behaviour.
disorderly
▪ No plea was taken from Mr. Bell in respect of the alleged offence of drunk and disorderly behaviour.
good
▪ The second type of positive interaction that parents can be taught is how to reward good behaviour.
▪ Woodlice make good subjects for behaviour tests.
▪ Ten years previously he had bound her husband over to good behaviour and to appear at the next sessions.
▪ She had to stay on her best behaviour and dance to his tune.
▪ Punishment alone has never made a bad character into a good one, or even ensured temporary good behaviour.
▪ Try to catch him or her out in good as well as bad behaviour.
▪ The trouble is that since Chilcott's dismissal for punching, players in the county have been on their best behaviour.
human
▪ None of these men would admit that what they saw and what they did were beyond the boundaries of human behaviour.
▪ What the sociobiologists have identified are some underlying relationships and latent forms of human behaviour.
▪ The inclinations to treat animals kindly are grounded in the analogies to be observed in human behaviour.
▪ Look what the love of another human being does to human behaviour.
▪ This is true of human behaviour of all kinds, and of human emotions.
▪ Some tendencies in human behaviour were encouraged, others repressed, and the results were both pleasant and unpleasant.
▪ In general, the classical perspective contained a peculiarly narrow view of what it actually is that controls human behaviour.
▪ I believe we can. Human behaviour is always an intricate blend of the universal and factors more specific to the individual.
individual
▪ We now need to consider the effect of rapidly rising property prices on individual behaviour.
▪ The impact of culture on individual behaviour is summarised in Figure 10.3.
▪ So the biotic and the cultural levels are both concerned with individual and collective behaviour.
▪ Olson's early work laid particular emphasis on individual behaviour and motivation.
▪ Personal Factors Every individual is different; individual characteristics influence behaviour in complex and significant ways.
▪ I shall look at five indigenous concepts which I think throw some light on the particularity of Chewong social and individual behaviour.
▪ It is the characteristic chemical products of such enzymes that give a cell its individual shape and behaviour.
▪ The expansion, or attempted expansion, of genes is seen as the central causal mechanism underlying both individual and social behaviour.
political
▪ Politics or political behaviour is power in action.
▪ Constitutional norms serve to influence and mold political behaviour.
▪ Conversely, political behaviour helps influence the contours of the Constitution.
▪ Employment; Political behaviour and attitudes.
▪ Occupations and professions; Political behaviour and attitudes.
▪ The first was on the unemployed themselves, how they interpreted and reacted to their experience, their political beliefs and behaviour.
▪ This leads me to analyse political behaviour, especially as it relates to conflict.
social
▪ Secondly, it will answer calls for a less economistic analysis of social change and behaviour.
▪ Language and linguistics; Social behaviour.
▪ It is important to stress that our self-image has the power to determine our attitudes and social behaviour.
▪ This is the case with all deviant social behaviour, such as incorrect marriages or theft.
▪ Evil to their mind is easily detectable: it reveals itself in bizarre appearances, anti-#social behaviour.
▪ Many students of social behaviour are coming to agree that both methods must be employed together.
▪ I shall look at five indigenous concepts which I think throw some light on the particularity of Chewong social and individual behaviour.
▪ For any social species whose behaviour is less regular than clockwork, even this ground-clearing goal is a daunting task.
violent
▪ James Harper, defending, said Colling believed his drinks had been spiked with a narcotic substance which caused his violent behaviour.
▪ At the age of twenty, after a life of violent and addictive behaviour, the girl, Nancy, was murdered.
▪ The aim of the ethnographic papers is to understand violent and peaceful behaviour in different societies.
▪ The doctor had suffered a temporary mental collapse and subsequent bouts of violent behaviour.
▪ Some maintain violent programmes do encourage violent behaviour and something needs to be done.
▪ Nor do we easily associate ourselves with violent behaviour.
▪ The Buid have as much of a capacity for violent behaviour as the members of any other society.
▪ Youngest son Joe made some dramatic accusations that his dad terrified them all with his violent behaviour.
■ NOUN
animal
▪ The main figure in the story is Konrad Lorenz, who began his work on animal behaviour in about 1930.
▪ Another distinction between human and animal behaviour is that considerations of motive are appropriate to the assessment of human action.
▪ Nevertheless, distraction displays are, by any standards, remarkable patterns of animal behaviour, and require some explanation.
▪ It was the naturalistic study of animal behaviour.
▪ Bird song is a very familiar kind of animal behaviour.
▪ It goes without saying that almost invariably the instances of animal behaviour that we find ourselves discussing involve adult creatures.
▪ The freedom of much animal behaviour from physically specifiable constraints implies that many animals must have inner representations and symbolic language.
▪ Much of animal behaviour, however, is modified and moulded by experience.
change
▪ Some people's behaviour changes after they have suffered a stroke.
▪ It is usually much easier to identify bad behaviour but the process of behaviour change has two sides.
▪ Some parents find the use of reward charts a helpful addition in the early stages of behaviour change.
▪ During the next few weeks, however, I noticed Cathy's behaviour change.
pattern
▪ One school of thought within psychology is that we tend to get hooked into behaviour patterns if they produce intermittent rewards.
▪ Hundreds of genes probably control most behaviour patterns.
▪ A behaviour pattern controlled by hundreds of genes does not give such clear categories as those found by Rothenbuhler.
▪ The striking success of feral horses is ample proof that their behaviour patterns are not only persistent but survival-oriented.
▪ He also suggested a method to distinguish to which category any given behaviour pattern belonged; this was the isolation experiment.
▪ The system represents a remarkable evolutionary adaptation of human behaviour patterns to the conditions of the rain forest.
▪ Figure 6.1 Experiments are needed to confirm that any particular structure of behaviour pattern functions as a signal.
▪ Early in the first year his behaviour pattern was showing dips and troughs.
problem
▪ Once the observations are completed the parents can devise a hypothesis about what is maintaining the problem behaviour.
▪ What is wrong is that the punishment is far removed from the problem behaviour it is intended to curb.
▪ They were advised to carry on as at present with these and focus in the meantime on the priority problem behaviour.
▪ Asking them to recount the last incidence of the problem behaviour often helps.
▪ The resolution of problem behaviour must lie in the successful unlearning of such behaviours.
▪ This shows clearly that the problem behaviour is excessive for a child of Keith's age.
▪ However, it is vital that the competing behaviour be specified with the same objectivity as the problem behaviour.
■ VERB
affect
▪ We can make a few more concluding points: The environment affects budgetary behaviour.
▪ Third, that the memory traces of the experience may continue to affect the religious behaviour of some participant subjects.
▪ As with all the economic forces affecting firms' behaviour, the impact of change is uneven and defies generalisation.
▪ Platelets are studied in an artificial environment and the very process of preparing the platelet sample for study may affect their behaviour.
▪ The third property of a polymer which affects its mechanical behaviour is the between-chain potential energy.
▪ Thus the firm's constraint structure can affect its behaviour on pricing and its costs.
▪ By now there were more serious difficulties affecting Charlie's behaviour that became considerably more alarming.
▪ Perceptions and attitudes affect subsequent behaviour.
control
▪ Eventually, it will also be able to control its own behaviour.
▪ It follows from the foregoing observations that a knowledge of right and wrong has of itself no power to control behaviour.
▪ Hundreds of genes probably control most behaviour patterns.
▪ Drugs used to control behaviour, such as amphetamine derivatives, can be continued during the diet.
▪ Many of these children are put on drugs to help control their behaviour.
▪ Of course all adults should be expected to control their own behaviour while on a flight.
▪ Organizations have traditionally relied on structure and threats of insecurity to control the behaviour of employees.
▪ Even when it was defined as the ability to change or control the behaviour of others they felt it was inappropriate.
describe
▪ This can hardly be described as sisterly behaviour.
▪ How people describe overtaking behaviour will also be recorded during the survey.
▪ We describe their behaviour by attributing our explanations to those individuals.
▪ These describe the appearance and behaviour of heroes, heroines, villains and other characters.
▪ To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience.
▪ Points such as point A can not describe the behaviour of firms in anything longer than the very short run.
▪ Jailing him for three and a half years Judge Richard Lowry described his behaviour as a dreadful crime.
▪ Three characteristics describe the behaviour of insiders: 1.
exhibit
▪ Networks that exhibit the same terminal behaviour as some device, system or more complicated network are naturally known as equivalent circuits.
▪ It is therefore possible to unwind the program that many times, obtaining a finite syntactic approximation which exhibits the same behaviour.
▪ These modes exhibit a behaviour of ever-increasing frequency as the Cauchy horizon is approached.
▪ Such old people customarily exhibit behaviour which is extraordinarily difficult to tolerate and which raises a high level of anxiety.
explain
▪ Psychobiologists want to explain behaviour in terms of physiological events occurring in the brain and the body.
▪ Much research is concerned only with increasing our knowledge of how societies work, and explaining patterns of social behaviour.
▪ Such measurement is essential to explain behaviour.
▪ Secondly, children should develop a new appreciation of how traits can be used to explain behaviour.
▪ This chapter will examine a range of theories which attempt to explain such behaviour.
▪ One of the first attempts to explain the mechanical behaviour of materials such as pitch and tar was made by James Clark Maxwell.
▪ Functionalists, therefore, attempt to explain behaviour in terms of mental concepts such as beliefs, thoughts, desires and memories.
▪ That's the only way I can explain my behaviour.
influence
▪ Constitutional norms serve to influence and mold political behaviour.
▪ The question is not whether you will influence behaviour but how.
▪ In so doing we influence other people's behaviour in the only way possible - via our own behaviour.
▪ The second of the two forces influencing behaviour is the result of the behaviour itself.
▪ Reward power Managers influence the behaviour of their team members by rewarding them.
▪ Group cohesion How powerful is a group in influencing the behaviour of its members?
▪ We also know that effective managers are motivated by power and enjoy influencing the behaviour of others.
▪ Conception of oneself as a housewife or not is liable to influence a woman's behaviour in a variety of ways.
modify
▪ Managers have to modify or influence behaviour all the time.
▪ So the superficially more relaxed atmosphere at home did nothing to modify my anorexic behaviour.
▪ Conventions can be modified by changes in behaviour or by reinterpretations of the significance of certain behaviour.
▪ Combining methods Penalties may be combined with rewards in order to modify children's behaviour.
▪ In non-associative learning the animal also learns to modify its behaviour but not because of any association of stimuli.
▪ Human beings turned out to be more intelligent than dandelions and modified their behaviour to match the new circumstances.
▪ In summary, then, animals undoubtedly can modify their behaviour as a consequence of their experiences.
observe
▪ Notice that for him to be able to say this he does not have to have observed his own behaviour.
▪ The most accurate way to assess an individual's temperament is by observing his expressions and behaviour.
▪ The solution here is to perform very short hops and observe the behaviour of the model.
▪ The inclinations to treat animals kindly are grounded in the analogies to be observed in human behaviour.
▪ The more time you spend with horses observing their behaviour, the more effectively you will be able to judge their moods.
▪ One can, looking down the microscope, observe the behaviour of individual cells as the embryo develops.
▪ It is a simple matter of studying people's minds, observing their behaviour and analysing their attitudes.
▪ To observe searching behaviour solely at the catalogue may provide a distorted picture of the task in hand.
study
▪ The Wurzel is the most sophisticated and its inventor has studied heron behaviour and come up with a radical audible warn-off.
▪ MacKinlay and Ramaswamy went on to study the behaviour of these mispricings.
▪ That, the court heard, gave him the chance to study the behaviour of people who really were mentally disturbed.
▪ It is important for psychologists to study driver behaviour.
▪ Thus it has been possible to study the behaviour of the basin basement using a measure derived from the basement formations.
▪ Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children's behaviour.
▪ Consequently only short range variations and perturbations in the field need be considered when studying the behaviour of a particle.
understand
▪ Its main aim is to understand the behaviour of the individuals in society.
▪ Violent behaviour, in the most general sense, can only be understood in association with other behaviour within the same society.
▪ However, the theory gives no insight into how we are to understand the behaviour of individual particles.
▪ Learning the needs of horses is the first step in discovering their emotions, and understanding their behaviour.
▪ To understand this behaviour we must consider the magnetic quantisation in terms of the Landau levels.
▪ The need to understand the meaning of behaviour also makes it difficult to predict how individuals will behave.
▪ The aim of the ethnographic papers is to understand violent and peaceful behaviour in different societies.
▪ He understood a little of my behaviour as he was a photographer, who also provided me with many useful photographs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Eric's behaviour towards his family surprised me.
▪ His behaviour in school is beginning to improve.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But they denied hens much of their normal behaviour and in particular frustrated the urge to nest.
▪ How will that behaviour be assessed?
▪ It is this capacity to give meaning which needs to be held on to in considering human behaviour.
▪ They have extended their protests to the legal process and judges' behaviour in court.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
behaviour
chiefly British English spelling of behavior; for suffix, see -or.
Wiktionary
behaviour
n. 1 The way a living creature behaves or acts. 2 The way a device or system operates.
WordNet
behaviour
n. the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances; "the behavior of small particles can be studied in experiments" [syn: behavior]
(behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people [syn: demeanor, demeanour, behavior, conduct, deportment]
(psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation [syn: behavior]
manner of acting or conducting yourself [syn: behavior, conduct, doings]
Wikipedia
Behaviour (Pet Shop Boys album)
Behaviour. (spelled with a period on the album cover and as Behavior. in the original US pressing) is the fourth studio album by English synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1990. A special edition Japanese release included an additional Mini CD, exclusive artwork and printed lyrics in a white velvet-like box.
Behaviour (Saga album)
Behaviour is the sixth studio album by the Canadian progressive rock band Saga, and was originally released in 1985, two years after the moderately successful Heads or Tales. Behaviour was itself successful, and managed to outsell its 1983 predecessor thanks to the strong performance of the single "What Do I Know?".
The album contains singer Michael Sadler's most sensitive song, "(Goodbye) Once Upon a Time", which he said was written about his late father and which still brought up strong emotions when performed years after the album's release.
Behaviour (journal)
Behaviour is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of ethology. It is published by Brill Publishers and was established in 1948 by Niko Tinbergen and W.H. Thorpe. The editor-in-chief is Frans de Waal ( Emory University).
Usage examples of "behaviour".
It was useless to take them to task, to inform them that this behaviour instead of easing their plight only brought out the worst in their superiors and made them the butt of every perceived mistake aboard ship.
From its behaviour with the dyes, and with tannic acid and metallic salts, it would appear that lanuginic acid contains both acidic and basic groups.
If we try to continue as it now does, this institution will inevitably fall under the direct administration of a government agency and the rules of admittance, of residence, of entertainment and of general behaviour will change drastically, change soon, and change to the worse for most of you.
Though you cannot want sufficient calls to repentance for the many unwarrantable weaknesses exemplified in your behaviour to this wretch, so much to the prejudice of your own lawful family, and of your character, I say, though these may sufficiently be supposed to prick and goad your conscience at this season, I should yet be wanting to my duty, if I spared to give you some admonition in order to bring you to a due sense of your errors.
Fathom, and immediately set on foot a prosecution against our adventurer, whose behaviour to his wife he did not fail to promulgate, with all its aggravating circumstances.
Sir Henry Ancred is perhaps the worst of the lot, but, because he is an actor, his friends accept his behaviour as part of his stock-in-trade, and apart from an occasional feeling of shyness in his presence, seldom make the mistake of worrying about him.
She was no sooner gone than Jones, instead of animadverting on her behaviour, reflected that he was in the same bed which he was informed had held his dear Sophia.
She was doubtless astonished at my behaviour, for in her state of deshabille she could not have counted on my displaying such firmness.
The Aulic council too, seeing, or pretending to see, the behaviour of the landgrave in the same light, issued a decree against his serene highness towards the end of this year.
Then do you not wonder at my present behaviour, that even in my nakedness I have made no effort whatsoever to inspire your baser affections?
In accordance with the plot I had laid against the count, I began by shewing myself demonstratively fond of Betty, envying the fortunate lover, praising his heroic behaviour in leaving her to me, and so forth.
Just because non-human animal memories can be expressed only in behavioural terms, the possibility always arises that what we are measuring is an aspect of the behaviour rather than the memory.
Discovering just how much creatures with nervous systems of this degree of complexity can remember, and whether they can meet the rigorous criteria laid down by association psychologists as to behaviour to be counted as learning, classical or operant conditioning, becomes a matter of the ingenuity of the experimenter in designing appropriate, biologically relevant tasks.
Meeting his eyes, which were wide-set and had the brackeny brightness of well-water in the sun, she recognised there the real significance of her own selective behaviour.
CHAPTER II Disgraceful Behaviour of My Brother, the Abbe, I Relieve Him of His Mistress--Departure from Genoa--The Prince of Monaco--My Niece Overcome--Our Arrival at Antibes On the Tuesday in Holy Week I was just getting up, when Clairmont came to tell me that a priest who would not give his name wanted to speak to me.