Identify 3-4 key principles that govern human and animal behavior.

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demonstrate your mastery of this competency, you should

  • Identify 3-4 key principles that govern human and animal behavior.
  • Apply these principles to your own life. (e.g. How can you see them in daily life?)
  • How do they enhance interactions between individuals and among societal groups?

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Running head: PRINCIPLES THAT GOVERN HUMAN AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Principles That Govern Human and Animal Behavior
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PRINCIPLES THAT GOVERN HUMAN AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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Introduction
Scholars define behavior as the response from either a human being, groups of people, animal
or group of animals to internal or external stimuli. Behavior entails observable emotions or
an array of physical activities that are attributable to a specific individual. While traits such as
temperament tend to be inborn are relatively consistent through one's lifetime, other
behaviors are acquired as one progress through life. The genetics and age of a person will
predominantly define an individual's behavior, though other factors such as thoughts,
feelings, psyche, attitude, and values play a significant role.
Behaviorist
Psychologists believe that human behavior is learned: this they prove using basic principles
depicted by animals to explain human behavior including aspects such as human evolution
culture and personality: this theory is called behaviorism. John B. Watson was first to
advance the theory that was later reinforced by B. F. Skinner. The two theorists believe that
the environment controls human being and animals. Human beings generate an observable
behavior (response) due to environmental factors (stimuli). They advanced two processes
through which human beings learn from the environment, which are either operant
conditioning or classical conditioning. In operant conditioning, characters learn from a
sequence of their behavior while classical conditioning individuals learn by association.
Lastly, the two scholars believed that human beings depend solely on the environment for
decisions and have no co...


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