Small, unpredictable rewards lead to highly engaged, repetitive behaviour.
Many exhibited repetitive behaviour, such as repeatedly pacing.
For casual players like Tim Nthambi or Natalie Meehan, however, the repetitive behaviour is part of the fun.
Repetitive behaviour problems include stereotyped motor mannerisms, such as hand flapping, restricted interests, inflexible adherence to routines, and a preoccupation for parts of objects.
Morley tracks the looks and moments and smiles that lead up to the outbreak: the repetitive behaviour, touching your face in a certain way, pulling your blouse to conceal marks on the skin, possibly signs of self-harm.
It is never stated that Saga has Asperger's (we hear more about her mother's suspected Munchausen's), but we recognise the characteristics: the intense focus, the repetitive behaviour, the verbal candour – although her habit of taking off a sweaty T-shirt and replacing it with a clean one in the middle of a crowded incident room feels peculiarly Swedish.
The animals exhibited social problems, and repetitive behaviour - both classic signs of autism and related conditions.
Conduct disorder is a repetitive behaviour that violates the rights of others.
The results published in Science Translational Medicine showed increased social skills and less repetitive behaviour in animals taking a drug.
Autism is a behaviourally defined disorder including attenuated or abnormal social interaction and communication, as well as aberrant repetitive behaviour, with symptoms emerging early in childhood.
Since many industrial impact noise problems involve successive impacts with a repetitive behaviour, control algorithms with a learning behaviour are discussed.
