Biological And Psychological Theories Of Behavior

How many interpersonal conflicts have you been in today, this week, or even this month? Do you even know which conflict styles you normally use when faced with a disagreement? Furthermore, this analysis shall reflect on my particular conflict styles, with an in-depth look at possible benefits of knowing the conflict styles I tend to incorporate, and how behaviors change based on a relationship and the environment.

In life, humanity is on a journey much like walking through a forest full of trees that requires consistent observation while navigating the path traveled. Remaining on course is a very important part of arriving at the destination of achievement and success. There is no way to have complete certainty of always arriving on time, as all the variables come into the picture of that journey which psychology also does in relation to the mind. The psychodynamic theory in comparison to the cognitive behavior theory is somewhat well viewed in focus of examining the mental process of what one does based upon what one has thought of doing. To consider the contrast of

Conflict is inevitable in any personal relationship or among members of any group. While we encounter many types of conflict in our lifetime, we often look for ways to avoid conflict. So, why do we run away from dealing with our conflict? It is often because many of us fear the conflict will escalate into a situation we will not be able to sustain. “As conflicts escalate, they go through certain incremental transformations. Although these transformations occur separately on each side, they affect the conflict as a whole because they are usually mirrored by the other side. As a result of these transformations, the conflict is intensified in ways that are sometimes exceedingly difficult to undo” (Pruitt, and Kim 89). We

(AC1) Two perspectives in psychology are the behaviourist approach and the biological (also known as physiological) approach. These perspectives consist of different theories, research methods and treatments in relation to mental illness.

Behavioral scientists Kenneth Thomas and Ralph Kilmann, who developed the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, have identified five styles to responding to conflict—competition, collaboration, compromise,

* The hypothalamus is a structure found near the base of the forebrain that is involved in the regulation of basic biological needs.

According to Ronald Comer, biological theorists view abnormal behavior as an illness brought about by malfunctioning parts of the brain. These malfunctioning parts can be brought around by a chemical imbalance as well as brain structure abnormalities. So, they tend to point the problem to the anatomy or the chemistry alone, adopting a purely medical perspective. The brain is made up of millions of tiny connections call synapse. In order for the biological process in the brain to work properly everything must be functioning perfectly. The brain runs on an all or none perspective, meaning if one small neuron isn’t firing properly, (the firing of the neurons is how the brain is charged to function) the neuron will die and stop working. This is the chemical outlook of mental illness, that mental illness could possibly be brought around by the misfiring of neurons, or the complete failure to fire that neuronal death could cause.

The Biological and Psychological Trait Theories are theories that are used to try and explain deviance. Biological Trait Theory stems from the Italian School of Criminology (mid-nineteenth century), head by criminologist Cesare Lombroso. Lombroso argued that criminality was a biological trait found in humans. Lombroso’s idea of atavism connected an individual’s appearance and their biological inclination to criminal activity. The Psychological Trait Theory focused on the mental aspects of explaining criminal activity by evaluating their intelligence, personality, and learning behavior. There are three subunits of the Psychological Trait Theory, which are the psychodynamic theory, behavioral theory, and cognitive theory. Sigmund Freud developed the psychodynamic theory with his research of the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious functions of the mind. The behavioral theory is about developing human actions through learning experiences. It explains that crime is learned from life situations. People aren’t born with violent tendencies, rather it’s learned from life experiences. Three sources of this behavior are family, the media, and the environment. Cognitive theory focuses on how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve problems. In the case of Jared Loughner, the psychological trait theory is the most applicable. With his diagnosis of being a paranoid schizophrenic, that connects him to both the psychodynamic perspective and

There are many was that people experience conflict throughout their day. This can include conflict in the work place, at home, or even on video games. All these opportunities to collide with conflict can make it difficult to determine what type of conflict is occurring, and reach the best possible solution to the problem. There are certain cues that can be seen when dealing with realistic, and nonrealistic conflict. These include then end goals related to the conflict, flexibility, and the interests of the parties involved within the conflict. Also, the appropriate response to a non-realistic conflict is to use force or coercion to resolve the issue. First realistic conflict produces different cues from nonrealistic, and these can be used in determining the type of conflict that is being dealt with.

Before discussing this question it is important to understand how neurotransmission occurs. Firstly, the neuron impulse needs to be triggered, dopamine for example can be triggered by something a human finds pleasurable such as cigarettes or food. After the neuron is triggered it fires the impulse across the neuron releasing dopamine transmitters into the synaptic gap. From there, the neurotransmitter binds with specific receptor sites to activate the dopamine. Almost immediately after the human is filled with joy and pleasure. This explains how (especially in addicts) the site of things can cause pleasure and affect human behavior in a positive way. Contradicting this however if there is a problem or lack of dopamine, the human will have feelings

In the start of the nineteen hundreds most people view nature the primal cause of someone’s behavior. Around the nineteen thirties to about the nineteen sixties the belief changed and people believed that nurture and the environment they lived them was the primal cause of behavior. As I stated before there was a case study on twins that where raised differently but come from a parent with schizophrenia and the chances of one of the twins being raised away in a totally different situation would decrease the chances of the twin to about fifty percent. Thus saying that nurture is a huge reason why people get schizophrenia. Also twins that are fraternal meaning two different eggs where fertilized the chances of one twin getting schizophrenia as

Chapter three of the book of Psychology: Themes and Variations explains the biological bases of behavior. The chapter goes into detail the process and organization of the brain as well as what it is made up of. For example, The structure of a neuron is broken down and is explained by each part. Neurons are the individual cells in the nervous system that receive, integrate, and transmit information. Neurons contain different parts that work together to make a whole.

According to Killeen (2001), “comprehension of a phenomenon involves identifying its origin, structure, substrate, and function, and representing these factors in some formal system” (p. 136). Many of these components account for the biological causes of behavior, including anatomy and physiology. In order to clarify the causes behind cognitive and emotional behaviors, biological explanations are divided into four categories: physiological, ontogenetic, evolutionary, and functional explanations. Normal, everyday behaviors, however, are not applied to these categories as they are considered to be common-sense activities (Kalat, 2013). To explain how each of these groupings relate to a specified behavior, consider the manner in which the practice

To study the evolution of human behavior, we must first understand the evolutionary foundation of modern human behavior. Using the knowledge we have about human behavior while observing for patterns that are consistent with evolutionary models. Taking advantage of natural experiments that produce different combinations of variables that can allows us to obtain new approach on human behavior. This chapter will focus on various aspects of human behavior from an evolutionary viewpoint. These involve the “ecology and demography of traditional human societies, patters of human behavior that have been shaped by sexual selection, the interaction between culture and biology in the expression of language, and the emergence of behavioral disease in an

Psychology is made up of many perspectives, such as, behavioural, biological, cognitive, social, humanistic and finally, psychodynamic. This essay will focus on the behavioural perspective and the biological perspective. According to J Walker (2012) the behavioural perspective is based on behaviourism and is the study of observing behaviour when in certain contexts and events. The biological perspective however, explains behaviour by focusing on the function of the nervous system, genes and the brain.