释义 |
behavioural, a.|bɪˈheɪvjərəl| [f. behaviour + -al.] Concerned with, or forming part of, behaviour. Hence beˈhaviourally adv.
a1927E. B. Titchener Systematic Psychol. (1929) iii. 263 All biological facts, we propose to say, are ‘behavioural’. 1936J. Kantor Objective Psychol. Gram. xv. 213 Vocabulary phenomena.., though remote from things,..operate behaviourally in a definite adjustmental manner. 1946C. W. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior i. 4 A behavioral theory of signs. Ibid. i. 21 Vagueness shows itself behaviorally in an uncertain and hesitant response to an object to which the organism has been directed by a sign. 1956Camb. Rev. LXXVII. 301 Some contrasting of C and I behavioural and linguistic patterns is possible. 1958New Statesman 6 Sept. 300/2 The so-called ‘behavioural sciences’..—sociology, social psychology, social anthropology—have been much pushed by the foundations. |