Humans, like other animal species, have a typical life course that consists of successive phases of growth, each of which is characterized by a distinct set of physical, physiological, and behavioral features. These phases are prenatal life, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood (including old age).
What causes human behaviour?
Behaviour is also driven, in part, by thoughts and feelings, which provide insight into individual psyche, revealing such things as attitudes and values. Human behaviour is shaped by psychological traits, as personality types vary from person to person, producing different actions and behaviour.
While there are many factors that motivate behaviour, there are four primary functions of that make a behaviour more likely to happen in the future:
▪️social attention
▪️access to tangible items or preferred activities ▪️escape or avoidance of demands and activities
▪️sensory sensitivities (this could be seeking or avoiding sensory input).
So what exactly is behaviour?
▪️Actions are behaviour
▪️Cognitions are behaviour
▪️Emotions are behaviour
Three fundamental types of behaviour can be distinguished:
▪️the purely practical - a determining reason
▪️the theoretical-practical - a motivating reason
▪️the purely theoretical - a supporting reason
Five common personality determinants:
▪️Brain. The brain is one of the most important personality determinants
▪️Physical Characteristics. One of the most important factors in determining personality are an individual’s physical characteristics
▪️Social Experiences
▪️Culture and Religion
▪️Heredity
What are behavioural characteristics?
Behavioural characteristics are based on behaviour of the person. Voice, Signature, Keystroke Dynamics, Gaits etc. traits falls under the behavioural characteristics.
A study on human behaviour has revealed that 90% of the population can be classified into four basic personality types:
▪️Optimistic
▪️Pessimistic
▪️Trusting
▪️Envious.
However, the latter of the four types, Envious, is the most common, with 30% compared to 20% for each of the other groups.
There are four different types of communication behavior:
▪️aggressive
▪️assertive
▪️passive
▪️passive-aggressive
What factors can affect behaviour?
Behaviour is affected by factors relating to the person, including:
▪️physical factors - age, health, illness, pain, influence of a substance or medication
▪️personal and emotional factors - personality, beliefs, expectations, emotions, mental health
▪️life experiences - family, culture, friends, life events
▪️what the person needs and wants.
Behaviour is also affected by the context, including:
▪️what is happening at the time
▪️the environment - heat, light, noise, privacy
▪️the response of other people, which is affected by their own physical factors, personal and emotional factors, life experiences, wants and needs.
How strange are men really?
Studies show male behavior is totally explainable.
New research suggests that, shockingly, men feel bad about themselves if somebody else opens the door for them. Women don’t. (Apparently this is worth researching.) This is not, by the way, the walk through the door and leave it open so the dude behind you doesn’t have it slam in his face type of opening. This is the jump in front of the guy and let him pass before you. Men are uncomfortable with this. To be honest, a lot of women don’t love it either, since it seems to suggest that we are too fragile to do as puny task as pushing a door.
Then there’s the research that men feel small when their wives or girlfriends are successful. All right, maybe that is a little retro of them. But now that more women are more educated than their husbands, that too will end eventually. As will, hopefully, this long line of headlines that suggest that while women may be from Venus, men are from some different cosmos altogether. The difference between the sexes, physically, is quite striking, but behavior and personality-wise, as this study shows, not quite so much.
Female personality types:
Women and men build their personalities from the same pool of traits. They're both influenced by their parents and siblings in early childhood and beyond. As such, there are few differences between male and female personality types, but children may be socialized to prioritize different traits.
The test results reveal 16 different personalities, each a combination that includes one the four following qualities:
▪️Introversion/Extroversion
▪️Intuiting/sensing
▪️Feeling/thinking
▪️Perceiving/judging
The alpha female vs the beta female
In the last decade, the theory of the alpha female has become a hot topic; it's not only popular in magazines and websites, but also in serious scientific research. Although men and women tend to occupy different roles in modern society, women's brains are similar to men's brains, so it makes sense that women may be wired for more dominant behavior than conventional thought might assume.
Alpha female characteristics include the following:
▪️Sexual
▪️Career-oriented
▪️Dominant
▪️Confident
▪️Assertive
▪️Confrontational
▪️Funny
▪️Strong
▪️Competitive
The beta female, the lesser-known sister of the alpha, has many positive qualities as well. Some of their personal qualities include the following:
▪️Easy-going
▪️Good listeners
▪️Passive
▪️Nurturing
▪️Gentle
There are a number of factors underlying behaviour: personality, motivation, values, abilities and environment, to name a few. So why measure behaviour in particular?
▪️It can change
▪️It can be observed
▪️It’s situational
▪️It’s practical
▪️It makes individuals and teams tick
▪️It can be predicted
▪️It’s more important than intelligence in predicting success
▪️It can be extrapolated
Many believe that whatever situations have happened in the past should be left in the past. To others, the past holds a special place in their hearts because it has helped in shaping the person they have become today.
Behavior is also driven, in part, by thoughts and feelings, which provide insight into individual psyche, revealing such things as attitudes and values. Human behavior is shaped by psychological traits, as personality types vary from person to person, producing different actions and behavior. Extraverted people, for instance, are more likely than introverted people to participate in social activities like parties.
People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.
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