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Behavioral science Any of the social sciences that attempt to study and understand behavior.

Behavioral modeling 1. A therapeutic approach in which desired behavior is modeled for a client who learns vicariously to use the behavior …

Behavioral medicine A multidisciplinary field including physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, counselors, dieticians, and others who examine the relationships between behavior and …

Behaviorally anchored rating scales A behavior-based rating of job performance in which it is behaviorally described systematically from behavior consistent with lower …

Behavioral intervention An alteration of the contingencies of reinforcement so as to bring about the desired alteration in behavior.

Behavioral inhibition The restraint of tendencies to act along with environmental monitoring. As a temperament, this refers to individuals who are timid, …

Behavioral endocrinology The interdisciplinary study of relationships among overt behavior, the production and excretion of hormones by the endocrine glands, and the …

Behavioral ecology The study of the relationships between the environment and the behavior of the organisms within it within the general framework …

Behavioral contrast A pattern of response to reward such that if an organism is given a small reward for a particular response, …

Behavioral contagion Quick copying of behavior of a few individuals by those nearby spreads like a wave among a group often with …