Human Behavior
Human Behavior
Donnell Brown
Beh/225
May 23, 2014
Human Behavior
Psychology is the study of behavior and mental processes. Today psychology is both a science and a profession. Psychology evolved into a science when it became a research or an observation. Scientist does research to discover new knowledge.
There are few psychological perspectives that explain human behavior. The biological perspective seeks to explain our behavior in terms of biological principles such as brain processes, evolution and genetics. The psychological perspective views behavior as the result of psychological process within each person. This perspective now includes cognitive psychology, which also explains how the mental processes affect our feelings thoughts and actions. The sociocultural perspective stresses the impact that social and cultural contexts have on a person’s behavior.
Nature is your genetic material, nurture is your environment. You come into who you are in three ways: Your genetic material that comes from your parents, their parents and all the people in your family tree. You have no influence over this because it already happened at conception. This is the ‘nature” component. The second part of the pie is your environment, which includes the “nurture” component. This includes being born in a tribe in a war-torn country where food may be scarce and prenatal care unavailable versus being born to wealthy parents in a suburb next to a university healthcare system where all the nutrition and healthcare needs available on the planet are available to you. This also includes being born into a place that would allow you to become educated or even abused by your own family, have parents who live, or being a child on the streets. The third part is you: how you take all this in and what you make of it, your personal choice. This is the part an individual has the most influence over. Are you a pessimist or optimist? Are you resilient? Do you use what intelligence and
Donnell Brown
Beh/225
May 23, 2014
Human Behavior
Psychology is the study of behavior and mental processes. Today psychology is both a science and a profession. Psychology evolved into a science when it became a research or an observation. Scientist does research to discover new knowledge.
There are few psychological perspectives that explain human behavior. The biological perspective seeks to explain our behavior in terms of biological principles such as brain processes, evolution and genetics. The psychological perspective views behavior as the result of psychological process within each person. This perspective now includes cognitive psychology, which also explains how the mental processes affect our feelings thoughts and actions. The sociocultural perspective stresses the impact that social and cultural contexts have on a person’s behavior.
Nature is your genetic material, nurture is your environment. You come into who you are in three ways: Your genetic material that comes from your parents, their parents and all the people in your family tree. You have no influence over this because it already happened at conception. This is the ‘nature” component. The second part of the pie is your environment, which includes the “nurture” component. This includes being born in a tribe in a war-torn country where food may be scarce and prenatal care unavailable versus being born to wealthy parents in a suburb next to a university healthcare system where all the nutrition and healthcare needs available on the planet are available to you. This also includes being born into a place that would allow you to become educated or even abused by your own family, have parents who live, or being a child on the streets. The third part is you: how you take all this in and what you make of it, your personal choice. This is the part an individual has the most influence over. Are you a pessimist or optimist? Are you resilient? Do you use what intelligence and