The phrase "acquire behaviours" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of learning or developing certain actions or responses over time.
Example: "Children often acquire behaviours from their peers, which can influence their social development."
Alternatives: "develop behaviours" or "learn behaviours".
This may mean acquiring behaviours appropriate to a new biological environment: when moving into a new habitat, with unknown plants and animals, it is best to eat the foods the locals eat, for one thereby avoids poisoning.
The data also imply that early exposures or early acquired behaviours in India, or exposures during migration, may increase the risk of leukaemia and reduce the risks of gastric and testicular cancers in the migrants irrespective of their ethnicity.
Impaired function of the mesolimbic dopamine system can cause ADHD symptoms of delay aversion, hyperactivity in a familiar environment, impulsiveness, deficient sustained attention, increased behavioural variability and failure to extinguish previously acquired behaviour [ 4].
It has been suggested that deficient reinforcement of appropriate behaviour and/or deficient extinction of previously reinforced behaviour can give rise to ADHD symptoms of delay aversion, hyperactivity in a familiar environment, impulsiveness, deficient sustained attention, increased behavioural variability and failure to extinguish previously acquired behaviour [ 4].
Kulbicki, M. How the acquired behaviour of commercial reef fishes may influence the results obtained from visual censuses.
In this approach, emotional problems are thought to result from faulty acquired behaviour patterns or the failure to learn effective responses.
A second difference between regular and maintenance programme planning is that maintenance programmes aim to maintain the acquired behaviour and are therefore likely to focus more on skills and reducing the barriers to maintain behaviour.
Moreover, it considers performing behaviour and receiving feedback to be important strategies for acquiring behavioural skills.
Plants have recently been found to acquire new behaviours to enhance foraging efficiency for light through the non-associative learning process of habituation11, and thus to facilitate photosynthesis and growth.
Larger brains allow animals to process, integrate, and store more information about their environment, enhancing the capacity of individuals to modify or acquire new behaviours (innovations) in flexible ways [19] [23].
