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• Human Behavior


  Refers to a voluntary or involuntary attitude of a person to adapt and fit society's values and ideas of what is right and wrong
• Common Perspectives in the Study of Human Behavior

  • Neurological
  • Behavioral
  • Cognitive
  • Psychoanalytical
  • Humanistic
• Neurological


  Human actions in relation to events that take place inside the body, especially the brain and the nervous system
• Behavioral


  External activities that can be observed and measured
• Cognitive


  How the brain processes and transforms information
• Psychoanalytical


  Unconscious motives stemming from repressed sexual and aggressive impulses in childhood
• Humanistic


  Subject's experience, freedom of choice, and strong motivation to achieve self-actualization
• Factors that Affect Human Behavior

  • Heredity
  • Environment
  • Learning
• Other factors that affect or influence behavior

  • Attitudes, beliefs, emotions
  • Reasoning
  • Culture, values, ethics, religion
  • Authority, motivation, persuasion, and coercion
• Needs Theory of Human Motivation


  States that throughout one's life, desires, wishes and drives that are collectively called "needs", motivate every individual
• Two Basic Types of Human Behavior

  • Inherited Behavior
  • Learned Behavior
• Inherited Behavior


  Behavioral response are based on their genetic endowment
• Inherited Behavior


  • Breathing, mating, defending one's self
• Learned Behavior


  Involves cognitive adaptation that enhances the human being's abilities
• Learned Behavior


  • Verbal communication, Jobs, Skills etc.
• Other Types of Behaviors

  • Habitual
  • Instinctive
  • Symbolic
  • Complex
• Habitual Behavior


  Motor, emotional, language
• Instinctive Behavior


  Unlearned behavior