The phrase "category of behaviour" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different types or classifications of actions or conduct.
Example: "In psychology, researchers often study the category of behaviour related to social interactions."
Alternatives: "type of behaviour" or "class of behaviour".
Because you have no history with them, it's less perturbing to see them move from one category of behaviour - the performance of film dialogue - to another kind of activity - the vigorous movement of tumescent body parts.
Times have changed". Not for Simon Dessain, 61, who said: "Grooming is just not a suitable activity for a train, any more than leaky earphones, or bodily noises... make-up just falls into the same category of behaviour". Sarah Pennells, founder of the Savvy Woman money website, said eating "stinky food or leaving rubbish has an impact on other people in the way doing your make up doesn't".
A new method for decoding logger output into two general categories of behaviour, 'active' and 'inactive', was developed and validated.
Tinbergen envisaged such a mechanism for each of the major functional categories of behaviour: foraging, reproduction, antipredator behaviour, and so on.
Fig. 1 Total time spent on different categories of behaviour for all observations by solo, owner and intruder E. nassaui, n = 20 solo females and 15 owner-intruder pairs Fig. 2 General sequence of parasitism-related behaviour shown by E. nassaui in the absence of conspecific competitors (n = 20 solo females).
From this viewpoint we suggest that the patient with dementia gained a sense of control through four categories of behaviour: constructive, disengaged, distressed and neutral.
The observational data were analysed inductively to yield categories of behaviour reflecting the perlocutionary types of intervention which non-executive directors made in trust meetings.
Originators could then indicate more precisely which categories of behaviour were relevant as well as adding free-text information to describe the incident more fully as necessary.
We conducted semi-structured interviews rather than a quantitative survey to be able to gain a deeper understanding of the factors affecting deliberate decisions to speak up rather than using predefined categories of behaviour.
