GENDSO_Lesson 1: Society & Behavior

• 4 components of behavior

  Thinking

  Feeling

  Action

  Physiology
• what are the basic psychological processes affecting behavior?

  Perception

  Learning

  Language

  Thought

  Attention

  Memory

  Motivation

  Emotion
• what are the types of human behavior?

  Molecular behavior

  Moler behavior

  Overt

  Covert

  Voluntary

  Involuntary
• A voluntary behavior can be overt and moler
• An involuntary behavior can be molecular
• Acceptable behavior - behavior that is either praised or tolerated

  Unacceptable behavior - behavior that is disliked, discouraged, or punished
• Ways that individuals interact with their environment; observable & unobservable

  Behavior
• An aggregate of people living together in more or less ordered community. It is the regulating agents of behavior.

  Society
• The study of the mind & behavior

  Psychology
• An unexpected behavior that occurs without thinking (instinctive). Example: flinching when something is about to hit you

  Molecular behavior
• Type of behavior that occurs after thinking

  Moler behavior
• Visible type of behavior that can be seen to occur outside of human beings.

  Overt behavior
• A not visible type of behavior. Example: Thinking

  Covert
• Type of behavior that depends on human wants

  Voluntary behavior
• Type of behavior that occurs naturally & without thinking

  Involuntary behavior
• Personality - characteristic patterns of behavior
• Habit - any regularly repeated behavior and is learned
• Experience - conscious component of human existence
• Action - observable component of human behavior
• Physiology - something to do with the body
• Feelings - the affective component of human behavior
• Thoughts - the cognitive component of human behavior
• Somatic - physiological changes provoked by emotion
• Behavioral - spectrum of behavior triggered by an emotion
• Feeling - subjective experience of the individual
• Responsible for organizing & giving meaning to all sensory stimuli


  Perception
• It is how we modify and acquire knowledge, abilities, skills, behaviors, etc.. It works through what happened in the past and is closely related to memory

  Learning
• It gives us the ability to communicate w/ others


  Language
• It is a complex process that psychology defines as the process in charge of transforming information


  Thought
• It focuses our resources on a series of stimuli while ignoring the rest

  Attention
• It encodes information for future storage and retrieval, it is an essential process

  Memory
• The process in charge of activating the body & putting it in the ideal state

  Motivation
• The reactions to external stimuli. Allows us to guide our behavior & act quickly in response to the demands of environment

  Emotion