behavioural experiment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbehaviouralandexperiment
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behavioural
adjective
uk/bɪˈheɪ.vjə.rəl/us/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ.əl/
relating ...
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experiment
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪkˈsper.ɪ.mənt/us/ɪkˈsper.ə.mənt/
a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or ...
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Where possible, and in order to preserve collaboration, participants were encouraged to treat their non-adherence as abehaviouralexperiment.
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In this context, results from recent behavioural experiments prove very important.
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Increasingly, behavioural experiments identify systematic response to signals capable of acknowledging the intrinsic value of action.
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Behavioural experiments reveal that individuals rely more heavily on low-cost signals and heuristics than on an optimising calculus.
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Electrophysiological and behavioural experiments in unimpaired individuals may be less likely, however, to show the independence of discrete components.
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Behavioural experiments in the laboratory showed that fish reacted to the parasite cercariae by avoiding the infection source, which decreased the rate of parasite establishment.
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Behavioural experiments involved strengthening existing coping skills or developing novel coping strategies.
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As with other studies with soil-dwelling organisms, the current behavioural experiments were by necessity conducted in soil-free apparatus in order to quantify subtle movements of larvae.
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The advisory committee is continuing its examination of psychological and behavioural experiments using live animals, which involve the infliction of stress.
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Remaining relatively unmodified, this method is still used in psychological and behavioural experiments investigating aspects of the hindsight bias.
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This species has been shown to have colour vision using behavioural experiments that control for brightness, apparently being the first known example of colour discrimination in reef fish.
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