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Accident Proneness - Tendency toward involvement in accidents. Implies certain personality characteristics which predispose to accidents. |
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Adolescent Behavior - Any observable response or action of an adolescent. |
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Behavior, Animal - The observable response an animal makes to any situation. |
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Behavioral Symptoms - Observable manifestions of impaired psychological functioning. |
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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. |
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Codependency (Psychology) - A relational pattern in which a person attempts to derive a sense of purpose through relationships with others. |
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Communication - The exchange or transmission of ideas, attitudes, or beliefs between individuals or groups. |
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Drinking Behavior - Behaviors associated with the ingesting of water and other liquids; includes rhythmic patterns of drinking (time intervals - onset and duration), frequency and satiety. |
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Exploratory Behavior - The tendency to explore or investigate a novel environment. It is considered a motivation not clearly distinguishable from curiosity. |
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Habits - Acquired or learned responses which are regularly manifested. |
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Harm Reduction - The application of methods designed to reduce the risk of harm associated with certain behaviors without reduction in frequency of those behaviors. The risk-associated behaviors include ongoing and active addictive behaviors. |
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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. |
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Imitative Behavior - The mimicking of the behavior of one individual by another. |
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Impulsive Behavior - An act performed without delay, reflection, voluntary direction or obvious control in response to a stimulus. |
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Inhibition (Psychology) - The interference with or prevention of a behavioral or verbal response even though the stimulus for that response is present; in psychoanalysis the unconscious restraining of an instinctual process. |
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Motor Activity - The physical activity of a human or an animal as a behavioral phenomenon. |
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Personal Satisfaction - The individual's experience of a sense of fulfillment of a need or want and the quality or state of being satisfied. |
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Reproductive Behavior - Human behavior or decision related to REPRODUCTION. |
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Risk Reduction Behavior - Reduction of high-risk choices and adoption of low-risk quantity and frequency alternatives. |
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Risk-Taking - Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. It may also include the exhibiting of certain behaviors whose outcomes may present a risk to the individual or to those associated with him or her. |
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Self Stimulation - Stimulation of the brain, which is self-administered. The stimulation may result in negative or positive reinforcement. |
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Sexual Behavior - Sexual activities of humans. |
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Social Behavior - Any behavior caused by or affecting another individual, usually of the same species. |
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Spatial Behavior - Reactions of an individual or groups of individuals with relation to the immediate surrounding area including the animate or inanimate objects within that area. |
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Stereotyped Behavior - Relatively invariant mode of behavior elicited or determined by a particular situation; may be verbal, postural, or expressive. |
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Sucking Behavior - Any suction exerted by the mouth; response of the mammalian infant to draw milk from the breast. Includes sucking on inanimate objects. Not to be used for thumb sucking, which is indexed under fingersucking. |
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Tobacco Use Cessation - Cessation of the habit of using tobacco products for smoking or chewing, including the use of snuff. |
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