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(Crim Soc) HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT

This document discusses human behavior and its various classifications. It outlines four main views of human behavior: neurological, behavioral, cognitive, and psychoanalytical. Behavior is classified as either inherited/inborn or learned. Key factors that influence human behavior include heredity, environment, learning, personality traits like extroversion and neuroticism, and frustration. The document also defines three basic forms of conflict: approach-avoidance, approach-approach, and avoidance-avoidance.

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(Crim Soc) HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT

This document discusses human behavior and its various classifications. It outlines four main views of human behavior: neurological, behavioral, cognitive, and psychoanalytical. Behavior is classified as either inherited/inborn or learned. Key factors that influence human behavior include heredity, environment, learning, personality traits like extroversion and neuroticism, and frustration. The document also defines three basic forms of conflict: approach-avoidance, approach-approach, and avoidance-avoidance.

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SOCIOLOGY OF CRIMES, ETHICS AND HUMAN RELATIONS

By

Erick A. Gempesao
Criminologist

CRIM. 5: HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Human Behavior
- anything an individual does that involves self-initiated action and/or reaction to a given
situation.
- the sum total of man's reaction to his environment or the way human beings act

Human Beings
Human beings are intelligent social animals with the mental capacity to comprehend, infer and think in
rational ways.

Views in Human Behavior


1. Neurological View – deals with human actions in relation to events taking place inside the body such
as the brain and the nervous system.
2. Behavioral View – emphasizes on external functions of the human being that can be observed and
measured.
3. Cognitive View – it is concerned with the way the brain processes and transforms information into
various ways.
4. Psychoanalytical View – emphasizes unconscious motives that originate from aggressive impulses in
childhood.
5. Humanistic View – focuses on the subject’s experience, freedom of choice and motivation toward self-
actualization.

Two Basic Types of Behavior


1. Inherited (Inborn) behavior – refers to any behavioral reactions or reflexes exhibited by people
because of their inherited capabilities or the process of natural selection.
2. Learned (Operant) behavior – involves knowing or adaptation that enhances human beings’
ability to cope with changes in the environment in ways which improve the chances of survival.
Learned behavior may be acquired through environment or training.

Classifications of Human Behavior


Habitual – refers to motorized behavior usually manifested in language and emotion. Instinctive – are
generally unlearned and simply comes out of man’s instinct which can be seen among instinct-instinct
survival behaviors.
Symbolic – are behaviors that are usually carried out by means of unsaid words and shown
through symbols or body signs.
Complex – are those behaviors that combine two or more of the classified ones.

Causes of Human Behavior


Sensation – is the feelingorimpressioncreatedbyagivenstimulusor cause that leads to a
particular reaction or behavior.
Human Senses:
a. Visual – sight
b. Olfactory – smell
c. Cutaneous – touch
d. Auditory – hearing
e. Gustatory – taste
Perception – refers to the person’s knowledgeofagivenstimuluswhich largely help to determine the actual
behavioral response in a given situation
Awareness – refers to the psychological activity based on interpretation of past experienceswithagivenstimulusor
object.

Factors that affect Human Behavior


Heredity – it is the passing of traits to offspring (from its parent or ancestors). This is the
process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the
characteristics of its parent cell or organism.
Environment – refers to surroundings of an object. It consists of conditions and factors that
surround and influence behavioral pattern.
Learning – is the process by which an individual’s behavior changes as a result of experience
or practice.

Personality Traits that Affect Human Behavior


1. Extroversion – characterized by interests directed toward the external environment of people and things
rather than toward inner experiences and oneself.
2. Introversion – characterized by direction of interest toward oneself and one’s inner world of experiences.
Introverts, in contrast, tend to be more reserved, less outgoing, and less sociable.
3. Ambiversion – is a balance of extrovert and introvert characteristics. An ambivert is normally
comfortable with groups and enjoys social interaction, but also relishes time alone and away from the crowd.
4. Neuroticism – persons high in neuroticism react intensely and are generally moody, touchy, depressed,
sensitive and anxious or nervous. They respond more poorly to environmental stress, and are more likely to
interpret ordinary situations as threatening, and minor frustrations as hopelessly difficult.
5. Psychoticism – is characterized by cold cruelty, social insensitivity, disregard for danger, troublesome
behavior, dislike of others and an attraction towards unusual. A person high on psychoticism tends to be
impulsive, aggressive individual without appreciable concern for others.

Frustration in Human Behavior


Frustration refers to the situation which blocks the individual’s motivated behavior. Sustained frustration may
be characterized by anxiety, irritability, fatigue or depression.

Three Basic Forms of Conflict


1. Approach-Avoidance Conflict - occurs when an individual moves closer to a seemingly desirable
object, only to have the potentially negative consequences of contacting that object push back against the
closing behavior.
2. Approach-Approach Conflict - This is a conflict resulting from the necessity of choosing between
two desirable alternatives. There are usually two desirable things wanted, but only one option can be chosen.
3. Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict - This form of conflict involves two undesirable or unattractive
alternatives where a person has to decide of choosing one of the undesirable things.
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