Search results for "Human behavior" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • However, his understanding of the human mind was limited to the structure ... made him turn toward studies of animal behavior. During three years of postdoctoral ...
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  • children and for stimulating cooperative behavior without punishment or reward ... Their basic assumption was that human behavior is not predetermined ...
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  • examples of Homo sapiens sapiens, modern human beings. Cro-Magnons lived ... Theoretically, modern human behavior is taken to include four ingredient ...
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  • social psychology. McDougall believed human behavior to be based on three ... It was at Cambridge that McDougall became interested in human behavior ...
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  • What was important for a behaviorist analysis of human behavior was ... as an overly deterministic view of human behavior—by ignoring the internal ...
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  • tool in increasing our understanding of human behavior. ... a theory of predicting economic behavior. In 1944, they wrote Theory ...
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  • for the greatest advances in understanding human behavior. ... culture plays an important role in human behavior and warned scientists ...
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  • concerned with the study of animal behavior. Ethologists take a comparative ... The study of animal behavior touches upon the fact that people receive ...
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  • and anxiety provided the basis for modern behavior therapy. He developed the ... grounded in the belief that much of human behavior is learned, and as such ...
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  • drives that motivate and influence human behavior. Miller was one of Clark ... which according to Freud greatly influenced human behavior. ...
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  • The fluidity of the science of human origins is seen in the case of ... Category:Human evolution 107522420 ...
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  • the depth (the hidden or deeper aspects) of human experience. Although not ... of spiritual components underlying human behavior comes from the field ...
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  • of the most basic methods to alter human behavior, through operant reward ... could not be excluded from theories of human behavior and is not merely a consequence ...
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  • Philosophy of action is chiefly concerned with human action, intending ... Since action has ties to central human concerns such as responsibility ...
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  • a certain time period, based on innate human abilities. He maintained ... center in the U.S. for the study of child behavior. There he spent some of ...
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  • a unified framework for animal and human behavior based on principles of ... quot; and that the experiment shed light on human behavior: ...
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  • study of ethology should be applied to human behavior as well as animals. This ... study of ethology should be applied to human behavior as well as animals. This ...
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  • of the individual, Tarde analyzed human society, particularly human ... to better understand the social nature of human beings and thus to support ...
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  • laws, established to prevent monopolistic behavior, although they have been ... theories that would expound more on human behavior in economics. ...
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  • national traits, racial superiority, herd behavior, and crowd psychology. His ... time it did open new avenues of understanding human behavior. ...
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  • The Common Rule is a federal policy governing the protection of human ... including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department ...
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  • of intrinsic motivation in driving human behavior. Like Maslow's hierarchical ... Motivation and Self-determination in Human Behavior. New York, NY: Plenum ...
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  • Arson risks both property and human life, and as such is destructive ... rely on knowledge of the "behavior of fire," the basic ...
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  • his Homo Ludens and explained how diverse human cultural activities, from ... etc.) have viewed play as endemic to the human species. ...
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  • and historical context. He recognized that human motivation was crucial in ... of the belief that behind economic behavior lay solely egoism and hedonism ...
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  • on his findings. His work on nonverbal behavior transformed our understanding ... aspects of human life, such as happiness. Throughout his career, he ...
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  • work in the field of animal social behavior. Their work recognized that ... of Vienna, where his uncle taught human physiology. His uncle noticed ...
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  • of shared values and standards of behavior are essential to avoid such ... and regulations may appear to limit the behavior of individuals, a lack of ...
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  • a sexual signal. It does aid in their feeding behavior (as they sit in one spot and reach for all fruit in range, thereby reducing energy expenditure ...
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  • == Behavior == [[Image:Male silverback Gorilla.JPG|right|thumbnail ... *Beck, B. B. Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools ...
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  • Simon was exposed to the idea that human behavior could be studied scientifically ... The book addressed a wide range of human behavior, cognitive abilities ...
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  • Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities ... is sometimes described in terms of human behavior. The modern science of ...
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  • for the conduct of research involving human subjects; its issuance in ... Research with human subjects is an essential tool for advances in ...
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  • Association in 1942, and president of the Behavior Research Fund from 1931 ... he argued, a scientist can approach the human side of a person, understanding ...
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  • suggesting that patterns of cultural behavior developed based on essential ... that is, organized patterns of social behavior such as family system, gender ...
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  • on hypnosis, criminology, and sexual behavior. Krafft-Ebbing is famous ... Krafft-Ebing has written on criminal behavior, the medical perspectives ...
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  • people have commonly indulged in sexual behavior with members of both the ... as bisexual on the basis of their sexual behavior self-identify primarily ...
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  • as those not visible to the unaided human eye. Meiofauna. Meiofauna ... large enough to be seen with the unaided human eye," drawing a much ...
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  • to study the most significant of things--human beings. Kluckhohn's ... Kluckhohn's grand goal was to render the study of human behavior ...
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  • namely perception of their attributes and behavior and cognition to understand ... effect of personality and attitudes on human behavior). Fritz Heider also argued ...
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  • He did extensive research on animal behavior, but is perhaps best known ... objective approach to the analysis of behavior. In 1901, Watson married ...
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  • spider monkeys add greatly to the human enjoyment of nature. Ecologically ... attack posture. When a spider monkey sees a human coming near, it will bark ...
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  • emotional disturbance). Abnormal behavior expressed because of psychological ... The psychodynamic theory regards human behavior to be determined by ...
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  • who introduced and developed the field of human ecology. Park began his career ... and becoming an inductive science of human behavior. He introduced ...
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  • various behaviors, such as their unique mating behavior, add to the human fascination with nature. ==Description== As with all members of the ...
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  • mechanistic ideas on animals to human behavior. The book was burned ... machines could also be applied to human behavior. He also suggested that ...
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  • as a source of leather, and they add to the human wonder of nature. ... == Conservation and human interactions == Capybara are not on the IUCN ...
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  • (Ballenger and Myers 2001). The fact that human beings co-existed with the ... Rhinos suggest that they co-existed with human beings who likely hunted ...
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  • to the study of mental processes and behavior, that is the study of psychology ... physical models to explain animal and human behavior. Descartes, for example ...
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  • A portion of the work deals with human sexual behavior. The text ... by hand and corresponding moaning, virile behavior in women, superior coition ...
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