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Human Behavior
The study of human behavior which is affected by genetics, perceived behaviorial controls, attitude, and societal norms
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How do you get something off your mind?
Talk about it with a sympathetic friend. That's a great remedy to a cluttered mind
Does punishment always improve behavior?
sometimes if the person bein punished has a concience and realizes wat he or she has done is wrong.
but in circumstances like if he believes that he didnt do anything wrong or he exceeded effort to do things right but the situation turned out badly for some ironic reason,can possibly make him take things negatively.and as i meant with "negatively" is grudge that may lead to revenge.
the bottomline is that it always depends in the situation if he deserves the punishment and he is aware of what he's done wrong then it could possibly IMPROVE the behavior...but if his side was not clearly understood ,it may only WORSEN the behavior. self- destructive behavior is the main possible cause.
If a guys picks up your pencil what does that mean?
he picks up your pencil thats it
he wants to borrow it
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology, proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation." Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. This theory is applied to almost every element of our lives and often serves as the foundation for motivational training and personal development courses. Understanding your own needs helps you identify and understand the needs of others.
They are broken into five areas and are generally displayed in a pyramid with the physiological as the foundation of all needs, ending with self-actualisation as the pinnacle. Those needs are defined as follows:
Physiological needs
Generally, physiological needs are obvious - they are the literal requirements for human survival. If these requirements are not met, the human body simply cannot continue to function.
Physiological needs are considered the most prepotent of all the other needs. Accordingly, the human that lacks food, love, esteem, or safety would consider the greatest of their needs to be food.
Air, water, and food are requirements for survival in all animals, including humans. Clothing and shelter provide protection from the elements. The intensity of the human sexual instinct is shaped more by sexual competition than maintaining a birth rate adequate to survival of the species.
Safety needs
With physical needs being met, the individual's safety needs take priority and dominate behaviour. In the absence of physical safety, such as exposure to domestic violence, childhood abuse, etc., people can re-live experiences of post-traumatic events and other previous traumas. In the absence of economic security, safety needs can manifest themselves in scenarios such as preference for job security, grievance procedures for protecting the individual from unilateral authority, savings accounts, insurance policies, reasonable disability accommodations, and the like. This level is more likely to be found in children because they have a greater need to feel safe.
Safety and Security needs may include:
Health and a sense of well-being
Personal security
Financial security
Love and belonging
After physiological and safety needs are fulfilled, the third layer of human needs are interpersonal and involve feelings of belonging. The need is especially strong during childhood and can over-ride the need for safety, as witnessed in children who cling to abusive parents. Deficiencies with respect to this aspect of Maslow's hierarchy - due to hospitalisation, neglect, ostracism etc. - can impact an individual's ability to form and maintain emotionally significant relationships in general, such as:
Friendship
Intimacy
Family
As humans we all need to experience a sense of belonging and acceptance, whether it comes from a large social group, such as clubs, office culture, religious groups, professional organizations, sports teams, gangs, or social circles, i.e., family members, sexual partners, mentors, close colleagues. They need to love and be loved (sexually and non-sexually) by others. In the absence of these elements, many people become susceptible to loneliness, social anxiety, and clinical depression. The need for belonging can often overcome the physiological and security needs, depending on the strength of the peer pressure.
Esteem
All humans have a need to be respected and to have self-esteem and self-respect. Esteem presents the normal human desire to be accepted and valued by others. People need to engage themselves to gain recognition and have an activity or activities that give the person a sense of contribution, to feel self-valued, be it in a profession or hobby. Imbalances at this level can result in low self-esteem or an inferiority complex. People with low self-esteem need respect from others. They may seek fame or glory, which again depends on others. However, many people with low self-esteem are unable to improve their self-esteem simply by receiving fame, respect, and glory externally. They must first accept themselves internally. Psychological imbalances such as depression can also prevent one from obtaining self-esteem on both levels.
Most people have a need for a balanced sense of self-esteem. Maslow noted there are two versions of esteem needs; a lower one and a higher one. The lower one is the need for the respect of others, the need for status, recognition, fame, prestige, and attention. The higher one is the need for self-respect, the need for strength, competence, mastery, self-confidence, independence and freedom. The latter one ranks higher because it rests more on inner competence won through experience. Deprivation of these needs can lead to an inferiority complex, weakness and helplessness.
Maslow also states that even though these are examples of how the quest for knowledge is separate from basic needs he warns that these "two hierarchies are interrelated rather than sharply separated" This means that this level of need, as well as the next and highest level, are not strict, separate levels but closely related to others, and this is possibly the reason that these two levels of need are left out of most textbooks.
Self-actualization
"What a man can be, he must be." This forms the basis of the perceived need for self-actualization. This level of need pertains to what a person's full potential is and realising that potential. Maslow describes this desire as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming. This is a broad definition of the need for self-actualization, but when applied to individuals the need becomes specific. For example: one individual may have the strong desire to become an ideal parent, in another it may be expressed athletically, and in another it may be expressed in painting, photography, or inventions. In order to reach a clear understanding of this level of need, one must first not only achieve the previous needs - physiological, safety, love, and esteem, but master them.
Which is more important for the achievement of success intelligence or perseverance?
Intelligence is a definite asset however, to push forward and persevere success does follow.
Perseverance is steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose or a state.
Perseverance is important because without perseverance success is hard to come by. Finishing everything that you are assigned or you want to do is something you should persevere to do. Employers look for perseverant people because they know such people will finish whatever task given to them.
Personality psychologist studies about the different persons Psychology and individual behaviors. They observe the social condition in which a person is living and also study its effect on persons psychology. Its all about the detailed research in human behavior.
What does the term altrusim mean and how does it relate to kin selection?
Hamilton (1964) outlined two ways in which kin selection altruism could be favoured.
Firstly, if individuals have the capacity to recognize kin (kin recognition) and to adjust their behaviour on the basis of kinship (kin discrimination), then the average relatedness of the recipients of altruism could be high enough for this to be favoured. Because of the facultative nature of this mechanism, it is generally regarded that kin recognition and discrimination are unimportant except among 'higher' forms of life (although there is some evidence for this mechanism among protozoa). A special case of the kin recognition/discrimination mechanism is the hypothetical 'green beard', where a gene for social behaviour also causes a distinctive phenotype that can be recognised by other carriers of the gene. Hamilton's discussion of greenbeard altruism serves as an illustration that relatedness is a matter of genetic similarity and that this similarity is not necessarily caused by genealogical closeness (kinship).
Secondly, even indiscriminate altruism may be favoured in so-called viscous populations, i.e. those characterized by low rates or short ranges of dispersal. Here, social partners are typically genealogically-close kin, and so altruism may be able to flourish even in the absence of kin recognition and kin discrimination faculties. This suggests a rather general explanation for altruism. Directional selection will always favor those with higher rates of fecundity within a certain population. Social individuals can often ensure the survival their own kin by participating in, and following the rules of a group.
from the web page encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Kin+selection
going on a clasic vacation
It depends on the women themselves. if they think physical body are more attractive in attracting their sexual partner, they will chose it. recently, there are so many factors that may be answered to your question; 1. people who live in such a health demanding area, like the people live in West Coast of America with high intensity of athletic venue or sports, they will tend to have shaped and athletic body. of course the women have some inspirings idea about who are the men will be their lovers. in these area, you may imagine a handsome, tall, dark skin, shaped, and muscular men, are the most favorite of choices. 2. if you live in the country in such a money demanding society, like in several country in Asia, the considerations of men that the women want are the rich, prosperous, and so on. 3. if you live in the country in such a religious activity, like in several Islamic or Christian country, of course you will know the answer. like or dislike of those muscular men are depend on background of the women, such as education, family, health opinion, race, religion, and so on.
Why do people lie about dying when there really not?
It is unfortunate that people would do this but for some reasons they have of their own they do. Attention, lonliness, jealousy and possibly even control issues over the individual(s) the person have told.
why would any one want to die. if u want to die ure freakin stupid. FAGS
What can be done about an uncomfortable headrest in a Subaru?
So many new cars have horribly uncomfortable headrests, that force your head into a forward position that's painful. I can't stand the Toyotas & Honda's especially, which is so sad because everything else is great! Sometimes you can turn the headrest around to face the back, but often it's too far back then, and you can't adjust it back and forth.
Maybe buy a fancy alternative car seat like a Recarro (sp?), or swap it out with an older model headrest. For me, I'm just driving an older model VW, which has a nice adjustable headrest.
P.S. No amount of pillows or towels has solved this problem for me.
How are you influenced by human nature?
what do you mean by human nature?
ANSWER
me or we?
we are all influenced the same generally anyway
we are all influenced by our human instincts all the time
our desire to procreate, sex is very important to us and is thought about and experienced all the time
our desire to nurture, to teach our children how to survive
womens desire to be a gatherer, they have hundreds of objects and ornaments of no use, due to possibility it may have use in surviving
mens desire to be a hunter, they are aggressive and boys more than girls are interested in animals workings as children, to know the weaknesses of possible predators we can use for food, or for protection against
our protective nature towards our children ie maternal instinct, we love them instantly, and will kill for them if needs be, all to keep our line of family and DNA going
we over eat a lot and overindulge in food because our very ancient early ancestors needed to hunt and scarcely got food, so we take all we can get
we have a thirst for knowledge our desire to learn, to further our lives and success of surviving
men instinctively love women with bigger hips, breasts and/or stomach due to this being a sign of good ability to bear children,( especially the hourglass shape like beyonce or kelly brooke)
on the other side of things you could mean society and people
most people are not influenced in a good way by society as society is very judgmental, society doesn't like non conformity and difference
individuals are more tolerant but will change to go with the group most of the time in social situations due to the need to fit in and not want to be the individual of the group
we are all subject to the opinions and behaviors of society, even those of us who know all about sociology and psychology
and our 'human nature'' still has latent animal instinct (ie what i mention above) and that will always affect our lives, personalities drives and desires
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Can people who steal ideas be arrested?
No, stealing ideas is not a criminal offense. However, if someone infringes on intellectual property rights by using, selling, or distributing the stolen ideas, legal action can be pursued through civil court. It is important to protect ideas through patents, copyrights, or trademarks to have legal recourse if they are stolen.
Why do people cross their legs?
It is considered a form of good manners and shows that one is not given to slovenly behavior.
How do you get to know important things about the literature of mesopotamia can you tell you?
The most excellent literary work from ancient Mesopotamia is the Epic of Gilgamesh. Originally recited aloud, this towering work was probably recorded on clay tablets around 2000 B.C., more than one thousand years before the Iliad and the Odyssey were recorded in writing. Gilgamesh is a long narrative poem that describes the deeds of a hero in his hunt for identity and the meaning of life. Part man and part god, Gilgamesh deals with such universal themes as the meaning of friendship; fear of sickness, death, and the forces of evil; and the search for immortality.
What stops a person from choosing a good password?
Nothing. Good passwords should never include your name, initials, street address numbers, telephone numbers, names of relatives or pets or relatives birth dates, license plate numbers, your occupation, nickname, social security or military Id numbers. They should contain both alphabetic and numeric characters. They should be at least eight characters long and the longer the password, the more secure it is.
Or, Plenty. Good passwords take longer to crack than the patience of the attacker's methods to work. Passwords of 8 places with only characters and numbers can take less than 1.5 minutes to crack in with stock Pentium 4 desktops. But, no one updates this advice -- it remains or unchanged or technically updated since 1970. These results have been valided on groups of 10,000 users or more. Why would people given the advice above, not choose a good password?
If you want to be punctual, be early. Chronically late people think that they can always arrive right on the dot. They forget the fact that the time it takes them to get to their destination isn't the same every time. Punctual people plan for the worst; if the worst happens they arrive right on time, if it doesn't, they arrive early.
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Some adjectives used to describe rubies may also be used to describe women: rare, priceless, extraordinary, brilliant, valued, precious, beautiful, pure, magnificent, hard, valuable, etc. A woman may also be described as a "gem" (noun). The symbolism, meaning, and emotions stimulated by the color red might also be associated with some women: love, hot, fire, fiery, sin, heed, passion, and warmth. Remember, however, if such words are used to romance a women, take careful attention and listen for the most urgent word associated with the color red and women. That word is "Stop!" OFF-TARGET FOOTNOTE: King James Bible
"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies."
Why do people mainly artists describe themselves as I'm an enigma?
1 : an obscure speech or writing 2 : something hard to understand or explain 3 : an inscrutable or mysterious person With that in thought, especially musicians usually consider themslef to be something unlike others, unique, expressing themself through word or song. I think it also has a lot to do with ego and how you look at yourself. == == They try to make themselves out to be mysteries that have to be studied.
ANSWER: That is so weird you ask that question because I was wondering about what to write about myself in my wiki bio and was toying with the idea of claiming to be an enigma. I'm not really sure what enigma means. It's a mystery to me, so maybe I'm not so much the enigma as the word enigma is an enigma. I was thinking of calling myself Fabian but to be honest I don't really like the name. So, now that I've read your question and the answer above, I'm wondering...do you think I shouldn't use the word enigma to describe myself? This is quite puzzling for me. What should I write? I know, what about this: I'm a paradox, wrapped inside and enigma, wrapped inside a puzzle, that is a mystery. The paradox thing was my idea. What do you think? O.k. fine, I'll wait a while longer to write my bio since you guys have so effectively shamed me out of using enigma as a description. Hope your happy. They mean that they are different and mysterious, though that is not the most accurate word to use.
''what are the benefits of displaying accountability behavior''?
If you have never learned to be accountable for your actions then you're going to have a rough time out in this old world. Everyone makes mistakes or they may something in anger. Perhaps they have stolen for the first time for reasons of their own, or they have purposely hurt someone they shouldn't have hurt. By being accountable and facing each person you've hurt and apologize or rectify the problem you build a good, strong character and eventually, in time, people will look up to you as being trustworthy, stern but kind, and someone they'd like to have as a partner in life, workplace, or a friend. Being accountable for your actions and not running from them is called 'responsibility' and once you face them head-on instead of making excuses and running the other way you simply become a more reassured and confident person.
What are some personality traits of lawyers?
Some common personality traits of lawyers include being analytical, detail-oriented, persuasive, and having strong communication skills. Additionally, lawyers often exhibit traits such as resilience, competitiveness, and the ability to work well under pressure.
To adopt a goth style, you can start by wearing black clothing, dark makeup, and accessories like skulls or crosses. You can also listen to goth music and explore gothic literature to understand the culture better. Remember, being goth is about expressing your individuality and embracing darker aesthetics.
Are women capable of doing more tasks than men?
Women are better at doing more tasks then men!
No, this is a myth. While women seem to think they are superior at multi-tasking, there is little evidence to support it, and those that try, just do lots of things badly. For example, a woman might claim she can have a discussion with you and listen in on another conversation. If she is listening to a different conversation she will NOT be listening to you.
Whenever you put hands on someone without their permission, that is considered assault. Pushing would definitely fall under this.
