How Do I Explain Behaviour.
Lecture How do we explain behavior
Behaviour generally refers to actions or reactions (an activity or response of some kind) of an object or organism usually in relation to the environment or surrounding world of stimuli. Behaviour can be conscious or unconscious, overt or covert, voluntary or involuntary, sometimes it can be common, unusual, acceptable, or outside acceptable limits. The acceptability of behavior is evaluated relative to social norms and regulated by various means of social control.
Insight into human behavior comes from both scientific and non scientific investigations. The knowledge obtained through the senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell) and experiences is non scientific. The knowledge acquired through this method remains private knowledge and cannot be subjected to objective testing.
The scientific method consists of a systematic collection of knowledge or truths and inferences after continuous study and experiments. The word science comes from the Latin word scientia, which means knowledge. It has two connotations – content and process. The content is what we know, such as facts we learn in chemistry or psychology courses. Science is also a process – an activity that includes the systematic ways in which data are gathered, relationships are noted and explanations offered. There is a great difference between sociology and physics, psychology and astronomy. For this reason, the sciences are commonly divided into natural and social sciences. Natural science is the study of physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change. Astronomy, biology, chemistry, geography and physics are all natural science. Science makes assumptions that every event or action results form an antecedent cause. The primary objective of science is to determine what causes what. Social science focuses on one area of interest: human behaviour to find out what we have in common and how we are distinct as individuals and
Behaviour generally refers to actions or reactions (an activity or response of some kind) of an object or organism usually in relation to the environment or surrounding world of stimuli. Behaviour can be conscious or unconscious, overt or covert, voluntary or involuntary, sometimes it can be common, unusual, acceptable, or outside acceptable limits. The acceptability of behavior is evaluated relative to social norms and regulated by various means of social control.
Insight into human behavior comes from both scientific and non scientific investigations. The knowledge obtained through the senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell) and experiences is non scientific. The knowledge acquired through this method remains private knowledge and cannot be subjected to objective testing.
The scientific method consists of a systematic collection of knowledge or truths and inferences after continuous study and experiments. The word science comes from the Latin word scientia, which means knowledge. It has two connotations – content and process. The content is what we know, such as facts we learn in chemistry or psychology courses. Science is also a process – an activity that includes the systematic ways in which data are gathered, relationships are noted and explanations offered. There is a great difference between sociology and physics, psychology and astronomy. For this reason, the sciences are commonly divided into natural and social sciences. Natural science is the study of physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change. Astronomy, biology, chemistry, geography and physics are all natural science. Science makes assumptions that every event or action results form an antecedent cause. The primary objective of science is to determine what causes what. Social science focuses on one area of interest: human behaviour to find out what we have in common and how we are distinct as individuals and