Choosing the appropriate behavioral strategies that will be most effective.
The intentional stance is a useful behavioral strategy by which humans assume that others have minds like their own.
Cognitive and behavioral strategies used to avoid or excuse oneself from imagined failure.
Emotion regulation refers to the cognitive and behavioral strategies people use to influence their own emotional experience.
Such differences in behavioral strategy do make Darwinian sense.
Selection favors behavioral strategies in prey that enable them to avoid being eaten.
She acknowledges the good advice, exercise, and behavioral strategies, but she questions the long-term success.
"Studies show that counting calories is one of the best behavioral weight-loss strategies there is."
The person can, through interaction with his/her environment, construct an internal mental model of the situation and figure out a successful behavioral strategy.
An organism's behavioral strategies and ability to adapt will determine how they respond under different environmental conditions.