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behaviorally

behaviorally

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In a way that shows how a person or animal acts
  • adverb
  • /bɪˈheɪvjərəli/
  • US
: conductualmente
  • How do riverine fish respond physiologically and behaviorally to particularly early or rapid fall cooling?
  • behaviorally disordered
  • behaviorally difficult students
  • behaviorally disturbed

But clearly behaviorally, it is advantageous.

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Examples

  • A comprehensive, integrated, three-tiered (CI3T) model of prevention offers benefits for supporting students academically, behaviorally, and socially.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The two groups occupied the same general area, but behaviorally lived in separate sections or, in central-place terms, separate hexagons.

    Academic text (1992)
  • But behaviorally, we know that boys are more active, as I mentioned.

  • You can only mean probe them behaviorally and look at the information processing.

  • And my point about that is these people identify themselves behaviorally, psychologically.

  • But clearly behaviorally, it is advantageous.

  • Specifically, in behaviorally oriented intervention approaches, our research suggests that several areas appear to be especially important.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Chinese children who are sensitive and behaviorally restrained are considered socially competent and understanding.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Self-regulated learners are those who are "metacognitively, motivationally, and behaviorally active participants in their own learning process."

    Academic text (2012)
  • In therapy, we explore how past experiences influence us behaviorally.

Surface Forms

behaviorally positive
behaviourally positive

Morphology

behaviorally = behavioral (transparent) = behavior + al + ly

Formed by the adjective 'behavioral' + the productive adverbial suffix '-ly', so the meaning is directly derived from 'behavior'.

Etymology

The word behaviorally comes from behavior and the ending -ly, and behavior comes from behave. Think of behave as be- 'be' plus have 'hold', so it pictures how someone 'holds' or shows themselves, and behaviorally means 'in the way someone acts'.