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HUMAN BEHAVIOR - COMBINATION of qualities either a

person OR persons
DEFINITION OF TERMS
10. COMMON SENSE
1. BEHAVIOR - sound practical judgment derived from
-the aggregate of the responses or reactions experience rather than study
or movement made by an organism in any - known as SENTIDO DE COMMON/
situation SENTIDO KUMON
-any act which is observable
SOMNAMBULISM -sleepwalking
2.ATTITUDE SOMNILOQUY -sleep talking
- position of the body, as suggesting some ENURESIS -bed wetting
thought, feeling or action, state of mind,
internal processes ATTRIBUTES OR
CHARACTERISTICS OF BEHAVIOR
3.HUMAN BEHAVIOR
- acts, attitudes and performances of flesh 1.OVERT BEHAVIOR
and blood individuals according to their - behaviors that are observable
environment; properly the subject matter of - VISIBLE
psychology. (example: smiling, laughing)

- STUDY OF HUMAN CONDUCT 2.COVERT BEHAVIOR


- those are hidden from the view of the
4.PSYCHOLOGY observer
- the science that studies behavior and - NOT VISIBLE
mental processes (example: thinking)
- totality of some actions.
3. SIMPLE BEHAVIOR
5.PSYCHOLOGIST - less number of neurons are consumed in
- a PERSON who study psychology the process of behaving
6.PSYCHIATRY (example: WRITING)
- focuses on prevention, diagnosis and 4.COMPLEX BEHAVIOR
treatment of mental illness/disorder -combination of simple behavior
7.PSYCHIATRIST (example: WRITING WHILE DANCING)
- a PERSON who study psychiatry 5. RATIONAL BEHAVIOR
8.PERSONALITY - acting with sanity or with reasons
- distinguishes and characterizes a person - WITH understanding
- UNIQUENESS of a person (example: punching the boxing bag for his
training)
9.CHARACTER
- the combination of qualities; distinguishing 6.IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR
any person or class of persons; any -acting without reason/unaware
distinctive trait or mark, or such marks or -WITHOUT understanding
traits collectively belonging to any persons, (example: punching anyone who walks in
class or race the street.Insanity)
7. VOLUNTARY BEHAVIOR (examples: hugging is the expression of
- Done with full volition of will. love, giving gifts to someone)
(example: gnawing-to bite or chew on with
6. POLITICAL ASPECT
the teeth)
- Ideology towards the government
(example: clapping of hands)
(example: against the government,
8. INVOLUNTARY BEHAVIOR apolitical, very supportive)
- bodily process that goes on even when we
7. VALUE/ ATTITUDE
are awake or asleep
- interest towards something, likes and
(examples: pumping of heart, blinking of
dislike
eye, erection,)
(bruxism-grin, ,gnash or clench your teeth) 3 LEVELS OF BEHAVIOR
ASPECTS OF BEHAVIORS 1.VEGETATIVE
- responsible for NURTURING and
1.INTELLECTUAL ASPECT
REPRODUCTION
- way of thinking, reasoning, solving
-found in plants and food
problem
- MENTAL PROCESSING 2.ANIMAL
(example:Khalikak’s family- feebleminded) - movement and sensation, mostly the use of
Idiot - IQ 0-25 the senses and sex drives (being
Imbecile - IQ 26-50 immature ,impulsive)
Moron - IQ 51-70
3.THE RATIONAL/PSYCHE/HUMAN
2. EMOTIONAL ASPECT - values and morals, reasons and the will
- feelings, moods, temper, strong (purpose and freedom.
motivational force with people
(example: PSYCHOPATH-lack of emotion, 3 FACULTIES OF MAN
being inlove, suicidal , how you feel when
1.WILL
there is a problem
- HUMAN
3.SOCIAL ASPECT - conscious deliberate actions
- people interaction or relationship with
2.INTELLECT
other people
-RATIONA
(family interaction, friends and community
- power of perception or understanding
interaction.
3.SOUL
4.MORAL ASPECT
- PSYCHE
- conscience, concept on what is good or bad
- rational, emotional and volitional faculties
- morality –the right or wrong
in man
5. PSYCHOSEXUAL ASPECT
INSTINCT
- Being a man or a woman and the
- innate (biological ,unconscious)
expression of love.
- expression of love (on how you treat )
Life (sexual wishes) B. INFLUENCES OF CHILDHOOD
TRAUMA
LIBIDO
- feeling of security of a child
-pleasure principle
-the development processes are being
-instinctual craving of drive behind all
blocked sometimes by parental deprivation
human activities, especially sexual, the
as a consequence of parents or lack of
repression of which leads to NEUROSIS.
adequate maturing at home because of
EROS - LOVE instinct parental rejection

THANATOS - death wish or LOVE of PARENTAL REJECTION


death - the parents do not show love and affection
to the child.
2 Basic factors Affecting
3.PATHOGENIC FAMILY STRUCTURE
behavior - called as broken family or problematic
1. HEREDITY OR BIOLOGICAL family -
FACTORS families associated with high frequency of
- the nature problems such as:
- characteristics of person acquired from 1. INADEQUATE FAMILY
birth transferred from one generation to - lack the resources
another
-THEORY OF ATAVISM 2. ANTISOCIAL FAMILY
- a person born with the physiological - espouses unacceptable value as a result to
characteristics of an animal the influence of parents to the children
- man are born criminal 3.THE DISCORDANT/DISTURBED
2. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS FAMILY
- the nurture - Un satisfaction of one or both parent
- refers anything around the person that -unhappy relationship
influences his actions. 4. DISRUPTED FAMILY
A. FAMILY BACKGROUND - incompleteness
Death , divorced, separation
- Family is the cradle of personality
- Family is the basic unit of society 5. INTITUTIONAL INFLUENCES
- Family can result to : -mass media, school, church, government

Harmonious relationship(happy family) or 6. SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS


Pathogenic relationship(broken family)By: - was and violence, prejudices and
CESARE LOMBROSO discrimination, employment
7. NUTRITION OR THE QUALITY OF
FOOD
- POVERTY
1.HOMER PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
-author of Iliad and Odyssey, described
SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT are known as
human behavior as the
APPROACHES OR PERSPECTIVES
“Modern sense of breath or sign of life
2. SOCRATES AND PLATO THEORETICAL
A.RATIONAL PART -understanding
PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN
NATURE
B.IRRATIONAL PART -lack of
understanding A. CONFORMITY PERSPECTIVE
- humans as creatures of conformity who
3. ARISTOTLE
want to do the right thing
- the principle of life; quality or essence of
- KEY WORD : positive
that distinguishing the living from non-
living B. NONCONFORMIST
- human beings are basically undisciplined
MOLAR BEHAVIOR creature
VS.MOLECULAR - KEYWORD: negative

A.MOLAR BEHAVIOR C. LEARNING PERSPECTIVE


- behavior organized into meaningful - sees human beings are born neutral
sequences or patters onto activities that - KEYWORD: neutral
satisfy the organism’s needs, bring it closer D. DIFFERENCE IN KIND
to its goal or help to avoid danger. PERSPECTIVE
B.MOLECULAR - Spiritually, psychologically and mentally
- things as isolated muscular movements or different from other animals.
glandular secretion or to the movements of - KEYWORD: animals
the nerve cells or muscles.
E. DIFFERENCE IN DEGREES
FIVE ELEMENTS OF HUMAN - human aggression and violence is a result
BEHAVIOR of innate, biological needs to obtain
sufficient food supplies, territory, status and
1.VEGATATIVE - nurture, mother/woman
mates.
2.SENSITIVE POWER -different senses
KEYWORD: Human aggression and
3.ESTIMATE POWER violence
-memory/imaginative power
4.COMMON SENSE - sound practical
judgment
5.WILL AND INTEREST – attraction
FOCUS OF 4. PSYCHOANALYTICAL - emphasizes
unconscious motives stemming from
PSYCHOLOGICAL repressed sexual and aggressive impulses in
CRIMINOLOGY childhood.
A. COGNITIVE APPROACH -UNCONCIOUS STEEMING FROM:
REPRESSED SEXUAL AND
- attitudes, beliefs, values and thoughts that
AGGRESSIVE IMPULSE IN
people hold about the social environment
CHILDHOOD
B. BIOLOGICAL OR NEUROLOGICAL
5. HUMANISTIC -focuses on the subject’s
APPROACH
experience, freedom of choice and
- Aggression and violent behavior motivational toward self-actualization
C. DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH -WHAT YOU WANT, WHAT YOU GET
- examines the changes and influences
across a person’s lifetime
-called RISK FACTORS

APPROACHES IN THE
STUDY OF HUMAN
BEHAVIOR
1. NEUROLOGICAL - emphasizes human
actions in relation to events taking place
inside the body, especially the brain and the
nervous system.
KEYWORD: Brain and Central Nervous
System
2. BEHAVIORAL - focuses on those
external activities of the organism that can
be observed and measured
- ACTS WHICH IS OBSERVABLE
WITNESS
- a person who can perceive, who’s
perceiving
3. COGNITIVE - concerned with the way
the brain processes and transforms
information in various ways.
- BRAIN PROCESSES

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