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Adaptive behavior is behavior that enables a person (usually used in the context of children) to cope in their environment with greatest success and least conflict with others. This is a term used in the areas of psychology and special education. Adaptive behavior relates to everyday skills or tasks that the "average" person is able to complete, similar to the term life skills.
Nonconstructive or disruptive social or personal behaviors can sometimes be used to achieve a constructive outcome. For example, a constant repetitive action could be re-focused on something that creates or builds something. In other words, the behavior can be adapted to something else.
In contrast, maladaptive behavior is a type of behavior that is often used to reduce one's anxiety, but the result is dysfunctional and non-productive coping. For example, avoiding situations because you have unrealistic fears may initially reduce your anxiety, but it is non-productive in alleviating the actual problem in the long term. Maladaptive behavior is frequently used as an indicator of abnormality or mental dysfunction, since its assessment is relatively free from subjectivity. However, many behaviors considered moral can be maladaptive, such as dissent or abstinence.
Adaptive behavior reflects an individual's social and practical competence to meet the demands of everyday living.
Behavioral patterns change throughout a person's development, life settings and social constructs, evolution of personal values, and the expectations of others. It is important to assess adaptive behavior in order to determine how well an individual functions in daily life: vocationally, socially and educationally.
Adaptivebehavior is behavior that enables a person (usually used in the context of children) to cope in their environment with greatest success and least...
The Vineland AdaptiveBehavior Scale is a psychometric instrument used in child and adolescent psychiatry and clinical psychology. It is used especially...
behavior. It has since come to refer mainly to techniques for increasing adaptivebehavior through reinforcement and decreasing maladaptive behavior through...
person's adaptive functioning, the diagnosis is not made rigidly. It encompasses intellectual scores, adaptive functioning scores from an adaptivebehavior rating...
A complex adaptive system is a system that is complex in that it is a dynamic network of interactions, but the behavior of the ensemble may not be predictable...
neurons as a human's cerebral cortex. Elephants manifest a wide variety of behaviors, including those associated with grief, learning, mimicry, play, altruism...
Self-help eating Self-help dressing Socialization skills Vineland AdaptiveBehavior Scale Gould, J (September 1977). "The use of the Vineland Social Maturity...
WISC–V is also linked with measures of achievement, adaptivebehavior, executive function, and behavior and emotion. Equivalency studies were also conducted...
infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptivebehaviors within an environment or context. The term rose to prominence during...
of the AdaptiveBehavior Assessment System (ABAS; Harrison & Oakland, 2003); this pairing can result in information on cognitive and adaptive functioning...
decision making. Gigerenzer is director emeritus of the Center for AdaptiveBehavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development...
themselves. Other animals are victims of parasites that are known to alter the behavior of their host to complete their lifecycle, which result in the host's death...
species. There exist many hypotheses as to why crown shyness is an adaptivebehavior, and research suggests that it might inhibit spread of leaf-eating...
viewing behavior as an evolutionarily adaptive trait. Behaviorism is a term that also describes the scientific and objective study of animal behavior, usually...
together Behavioral dynamics have been applied to locomotive behavior. Modeling locomotion with behavioral dynamics demonstrates that adaptivebehaviors could...
), 1977, Handbook of operant behavior. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Staddon, J. E. R. (2016) AdaptiveBehavior and Learning, 2nd edition. Cambridge...
orientate to tasks that are relevant in the person's environment. AdaptivebehaviorAdaptive functioning Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Cognition Cognitive Abilities...
the term continuous partial attention in 1998 to describe a modern adaptivebehavior of continuously dividing one's attention. Stone has clarified that...
Sickness behavior is a coordinated set of adaptivebehavioral changes that develop in ill individuals during the course of an infection. They usually,...
microorganisms. The concept encompasses complex adaptivebehavior shown by single cells, and altruistic or cooperative behavior in populations of like or unlike cells...
with XXXY syndrome exhibit cognitive and behavioral problems. Patients typically show altered adaptivebehavior, which is the ability of an individual to...
arguably, constancy is not so obviously adaptive for pollinators. Individuals that show constant behavior ignore other flowers that could potentially...
the Society of Adaptive Behaviour meets and produces a proceedings on this topic. This group also have a journal, AdaptiveBehavior. Cultured neuronal...
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