behavior

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  1. noun The manner in which one behaves.
  2. noun The actions or reactions of a person or animal in response to external or internal stimuli.
  3. noun One of these actions or reactions: "a hormone . . . known to directly control sex-specific reproductive and parenting behaviors in a wide variety of vertebrates” (Thomas Maugh II).

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  • It's a function of whether a goal in a behavior is achieved or whether the individual is rewarded in the behavior. —  Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain
  • Their accomplishments, much like their behavior is ancient! —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • It imagines, first of all, that your behavior is a guide for the behavior of everyone else in society, when in fact, as you may have noticed, all sorts of different people react to all sorts of different things in all sorts of different ways, which is why we have to have elections and stuff. —  Pajamas Media
  • So, whatever excuse he uses for his behavior is about that sickness. —  MRC Latest Headlines
  • That is the only way I can account for their behavior, and since their behavior is the subject of the film, that must be counted as a flaw.
 

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  1. Middle English behavour, from behaven, to behave (on the model of havour, behavior, from Old French avoir, from avoir, to have); see behave.
 

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