Search results for "Human behavior" - New World Encyclopedia
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- non-consensual, forced physical sexual behavior, such as rape, sexual assault ... Sexual behavior is related to the very purpose of human existence: ...18 KB (2,684 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- by Carl Rogers based on his theory of human personality. He believed ... Abraham Maslow referred to this process in human beings as "self-actualization ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- who developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). He was considered ... fiction well, Ellis researched and wrote on human sexuality. His lay counseling ...22 KB (3,239 words) - 19:27, 15 March 2024
- another person's self-destructive behavior such as addiction, poor ... of describing and explaining unhealthy human behavior. Third, it can describe ...25 KB (3,378 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- tonally pure sounds, often well above the human hearing range, to broad, ... ==Habitat, diet, behavior, and reproduction== Ensiferans inhabit terrestrial ...11 KB (1,512 words) - 12:04, 21 January 2023
- and defend territory), they also enhance human enjoyment of nature. Orthopterans ... common among many crickets, and swarming behavior is seen in locusts. Locusts ...13 KB (1,770 words) - 10:49, 11 March 2023
- to great pressures on their numbers from human causes. At one point, the ... Today, deer still provide many products for human use. Deer skin is ...17 KB (2,513 words) - 23:53, 23 August 2020
- The human nervous system is the most complex object known to science ... transmission in the nervous system. In the human brain, glia are estimated ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- disease of humans involving larval tapeworms in the human body. In a tapeworm infection, adult worms absorb food predigested by the host, so the ...12 KB (1,667 words) - 20:17, 31 July 2022
- experimental way to approach the study of human perception and cognition ... argued that his chimpanzee subjects, like human beings, were capable of insight ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 23:20, 17 May 2023
- various stages leading to the appearance of human beings. ... [[Image:Human-brachiosaurus size comparison.png|250px|thumb|left|Size ...13 KB (1,833 words) - 02:00, 12 January 2023
- engineering that deals with intelligent behavior, learning, and adaptation ... to automate tasks requiring intelligent behavior. Examples include control ...15 KB (2,061 words) - 17:40, 16 August 2023
- to be important in shaping human behavior. the latter run the risk of reducing human behavior to only measurable elements ...22 KB (2,987 words) - 12:19, 4 February 2023
- that evolution could be used to explain human history or civilization, ... applied to many aspects of human behavior and psychology, and that ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 00:45, 5 December 2023
- Lagomorphs provide a number of functions for human beings. Hares and rabbits have been a source of food and fur, and some are highly sought in ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 05:35, 4 March 2023
- treatment on the psychological health of human beings. After his death, ... camps in his 1943 Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations. ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- quot;looking inward." It is a uniquely human ability. to try to uncover the processes of the human mind by asking people to ...17 KB (2,469 words) - 11:00, 6 March 2024
- abuse that has already damaged a child. Human beings should develop the ... *Human bite marks *Lash marks *Choke marks around neck *Circular marks ...23 KB (3,424 words) - 15:27, 10 December 2023
- concerning marriage are for the purpose of human partnerships or child-raising ... . It has also long been known that human behavior is influenced by the brain. ...24 KB (3,629 words) - 06:41, 18 April 2024
- which states that thoughts, feelings, and behavior are all connected. Thus ... Therapy (RET) and later Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). The first ...25 KB (3,498 words) - 17:04, 20 March 2024
- as emotions (fear, rage) and sexual behavior, the typical religious conception ... pituitary), gastric reflexes, maternal behavior, blood pressure, food and ...21 KB (2,814 words) - 13:22, 4 February 2023
- very short or rudimentary tails, and the behavior of rolling into a tight ... also called anting because of a similar behavior in birds. ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 15:14, 25 January 2023
- among their beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. Contradicting cognitions ... dissonance based on study of the behavior of a UFO doomsday cult after ...24 KB (3,639 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- reason and love to advance beyond instinctive behavior. Fromm believed that human beings need to be responsible for their ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- fingerprints are remarkably similar to human fingerprints; even with an ... that some have labeled as homosexual behavior (Dobson 2007). Groups of ...19 KB (2,896 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- is extremely complex, since the human brain and human mind function ... to his collection of over three hundred human skulls, skull casts, and ...14 KB (2,093 words) - 05:20, 9 April 2024
- reptiles, the females exhibit parental behavior, which involves a high level ... == Behavior and diet== Large male alligators are solitary, territorial ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 18:37, 21 July 2023
- greatly advanced understanding of human nature, certain aspects of ... drive as the primary basis for all human behavior. This "vision of ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is an Old World monkey (family Cercopithecidae), characterized by large size, long limbs, stubby upright tail, light ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 06:44, 5 November 2022
- Observations on the reproductive behavior of the Chaetognaths species Spadella cephaloptera indicates that this species cross-fertilizes, with ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- Bullying usually is characterized by direct or overt behavior, observable ... is a problem that has been observed in human history. Its solution requires ...28 KB (4,146 words) - 18:43, 22 November 2023
- food-consuming pests that are vectors of human diseases. They do produce ... of the 3,500 species) have adapted to human habitations and have become ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 22:18, 7 January 2024
- including some very large wombats. Human activities may be largely ... Aboriginal community who were the original human inhabitants of the Sydney area. ...14 KB (2,097 words) - 23:26, 17 May 2023
- of evolving networks of interdependent human beings. To understand society ... Elias focused his work on the relationship between power, behavior ...13 KB (1,741 words) - 02:41, 16 November 2022
- a serious infraction of the victim's human rights, namely the right ... on the other hand, is the taking of human life but in a manner considered ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- ===Homing behavior and territoriality=== [[Image:Cuncha033eue.jpg|175px ... of the rock surrounding the scar. This behavior presumably allows them to ...20 KB (2,800 words) - 08:45, 8 March 2023
- Sex education is a broad term used to describe education about human ... otherwise it can be destructive to human flourishing. There are a ...26 KB (3,715 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- changing the person's thoughts, and behavior therapy which focuses on ... maladaptive thinking leads to change in behavior and affect. Alternatively ...29 KB (3,904 words) - 22:22, 16 May 2024
- atmosphere that was conducive to peace and human cooperation. In his view ... in his day, was concerned with how human moral behavior depends on ...16 KB (2,570 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
- or prefer. In this respect they prescribe behavior categorically. A categorical ... of physics, for instance, describe the behavior of all physical properties ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 17:59, 30 November 2023
- to adopt a holistic perspective on human development, developing his ... In 1948, he accepted a professorship in Human Development, Family Studies ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- Fur seals have in various ways captured the human imagination and added to the wonder of nature, particularly as seen in the massive congregations ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- the beauty of their culture to the greater human society. Always passionate ... His partly autobiographical book The Human Cycle appeared in 1983. In ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- found in diverse cultures throughout human history. In Confucian thought ... must adapt to existing circumstances. The behavior of a Buddhist monk is similar ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- thinker. He noted in his Treatise of Human Nature (1740) that "a ... emotions. It also finds expression in behavior. In addition, self-esteem ...22 KB (3,077 words) - 23:44, 25 May 2023
- Examples of holism can be found throughout human history and in the ... century social scientists who considered human society to be analogous to ...23 KB (3,318 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- might not correspond with her behavior, and may be expressed with ... of society, the issue of norms of sexual behavior remains controversial. ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- no hard and fast rule in terms of social behavior, although there is often ... To signal friendly and/or submissive behavior, alpacas "cluck," ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 08:21, 23 July 2023
- with people have made them popular in human culture. On the other hand ... Dolphin behavior has been studied extensively by humans, however, ...28 KB (4,061 words) - 16:40, 29 January 2024
- of thoughts as a physical function in the human brain. However, his physical ... first dealing with the frame of the human body and mind, and their ...9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- has been able to describe the totality of human personality. The inherent ... on the work of Sigmund Freud, explain human behavior in terms of interaction ...35 KB (5,056 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- ethnographer, argued that the entire human race had passed through a ... totemism at or near the beginning of human religious development. Goldenweiser ...20 KB (3,178 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- The behavior of EM radiation depends on its wavelength. Higher frequencies ... It is probably not a coincidence that the human eye is sensitive to the wavelengths ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 15:55, 13 February 2024
- focuses on understanding the role of human-made institutions in shaping ... of rules governing cooperative human behavior. Institutional constraints ...34 KB (4,820 words) - 19:36, 5 March 2024
- not just of one useful perspective on human behavior, but of the key that ... of interpreting Nature, the world, and human behavior. This attitude tends ...22 KB (3,110 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- Behavior therapy, or the gradual exposure of an individual to certain ... releases hormones into the body to put the human body into an "alert ...19 KB (2,851 words) - 17:25, 23 November 2022
- "scientific" exposition of human behavior as being determined by ... by Zola. They sought explanations for human behavior in natural science, and ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 04:21, 11 March 2023
- a better chance against wolves, and later human hunters. The brown bear ... Bison were once very plentiful and an important prey for human hunters ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 02:50, 8 March 2023
- while doing so. The reason for this risky behavior is unknown. ... provide a further unexpected deterrent to human hunters—when hanging upside ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- that can be expressed through clothing, behavior, occupation, personal relationships ... exists proving the effect of hormones on behavior. However, hormone levels ...23 KB (3,388 words) - 20:48, 23 October 2022
- approach. In essence his view was that human beings behave according to ... established the view that human behavior is not a response to ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 15:10, 27 April 2023
- logically derived from basic principles of human action. Alongside the formal ... ignored the ability of an item to satisfy human wants as a measure of its value. ...22 KB (3,203 words) - 19:14, 22 August 2023
- depression. This represents one aspect of human creativity—utilizing it ... and females. On average, the adult male human produces about 20 to 30 times ...21 KB (3,056 words) - 15:00, 30 April 2023
- examples and thought-provoking explanations of human behavior. ... examples and thought-provoking explanations of human behavior. ...14 KB (2,060 words) - 17:51, 25 October 2022
- City of New York. In his, Influencing Human Behavior, Overstreet espoused ... * Overstreet, Harry. Influencing Human Behavior. W.W. Norton, 1975. ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 18:06, 24 January 2024
- and crystallized intelligences to explain human cognitive ability. In keeping ... was the derivation of 16 factors underlying human personality. He called these ...19 KB (2,804 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- by ancient Greek philosophers, of how a human being can achieve true happiness ... by ancient Greek philosophers, of how a human being can achieve true happiness ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 05:58, 11 August 2023
- is primarily nocturnal or active at night near human settlements and diurnal or active during the day elsewhere. The giant anteater does not sleep ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 18:57, 21 May 2024
- Caterpillars have about 4,000 muscles (the human being has only 629 ... of such potency that it can kill a human, causing them to hemorrhage ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 00:08, 1 December 2023
- to the complex systems of vertebrates like human beings, as well as including ... be altered or repaired. In particular, the human brain is the most complex ...32 KB (4,338 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- rights are inherent (things that all human beings possess whether they ... Rights are normative in that they aim to direct human behavior. Justifications ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- device that looks and acts like a human being. This type of robot ... mechanical limitations, and they lack the human spirit. Although they may ...27 KB (4,060 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- less numerous than it once was because of human activities such as hunting ... primitive characteristics and different behavior. Grevy's zebra is one ...20 KB (3,083 words) - 00:52, 17 April 2023
- foundation for research on the structure of human society. ... his fundamental statement of the nature of human society and its development ...22 KB (3,327 words) - 18:01, 13 February 2024
- Viperidae, whose members are commonly known as vipers, is a family of venomous snakes characterized by a head that is distinct from the body ...12 KB (1,886 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- for practical applications that enhance human health and well-being). Some ... More than 1000 disorders and diseases of the human nervous system ...20 KB (2,815 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- Although the human genome comprises roughly 25,000 genes carrying ... concept of genetic determinism whereby human behavior, intelligence, emotions ...26 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 3 August 2021
- theory, he built upon its theories of human alienation in order to understand ... His interests included urban life, behavior of minority groups, housing ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- is a more major determinant of human behavior than genetic inheritance ... legislation. She firmly believed that human behavior was learninglearned and ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 03:56, 6 November 2022
- government in his classification system of human knowledge. ... in order to explain animal behavior and the origins of meaning ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- hawks, and eagles. They have been harvested as human food. ... snake can strike (literally faster than the human eye can follow). Be aware ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- Tversky was an astute observer of human behavior, recognizing that ... anomalies and contradictions in human behavior. Subjects when offered ...28 KB (4,170 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2021
- reproduction, budgerigars also add to the human wonder of nature with their ... well as with other budgerigars. A common behavior is the chewing of material ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- a race of mythical creatures that are half human and half horse. In early ... While generally associated with barbarous behavior, notorious for ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- "manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of ... by moral philosophy as prescribing how human beings should live need not ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- *Blame - the parties attribute the cause of the dispute to the behavior ... *Actual problems - the behavior of those involved in the conflict ...32 KB (4,807 words) - 18:58, 15 May 2020
- giraffes have seven neck vertebrae; unlike human neck vertebrae, giraffe neck ... ===Social structure, reproductive behavior and life cycle=== ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 07:47, 24 January 2023
- Psychological egoism holds that every human has only one ultimate ... self-interest, and therefore altruistic behavior does not, in fact, exist ...28 KB (4,468 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- forest, adept at disappearing long before a human knows they are there. Even ... known bird call, and is on the edge of human hearing (Owen 2003). ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- Human beings are essentially social creatures, with the desire and ... sensory world makes up only a fraction of human experience, so in order to ...31 KB (4,695 words) - 19:52, 8 November 2022
- and which manifest themselves in various human activities, most notably ... emphasis on sexuality in relation to human behavior and to psychological ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- social patterns. Social patterns and human behavior, he said, were not determined ... of duty or oversteps his authority. Good behavior on every level of society ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- all four extant species are similar in form and behavior. ... have a similar structure to those found in human eyes, but are around 100 ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 18:15, 7 February 2024
- solitary, but the spring rains trigger a behavior transformation that can ... have been a serious problem for human agriculture, particularly ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- import. In the end, however, his model of human intelligence consisted of ... projective techniques, to my advocacy of behavior therapy and genetic studies ...24 KB (3,439 words) - 15:38, 14 May 2024
- a sexual nature. It includes a range of behavior from mild transgressions ... large numbers of young people experiencing such behavior. ...29 KB (4,311 words) - 10:14, 26 January 2023
- and to control the physiology and behavior of the body. In higher organisms ... the essential class of brain cells. The human brain, for example, contains ...28 KB (4,199 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- to explain the apparently inter-related behavior of things. A common analogy ... Leibniz posited that human souls were a special kind of monad, termed ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- frogs, toads, and other organisms. For human beings, they add to the diversity ... also to confuse. This is similar to the behavior of the similar looking but ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- It attempts to understand the role human behavior plays in social dynamics ... theories as scientific models of human behavior, and their successful ...53 KB (7,102 words) - 01:28, 12 April 2023
