2024年12月28日 · Human behavior, the potential and expressed capacity for physical, mental, and social activity throughout human life. Humans, like other animal species, have a typical life course that consists of successive phases of growth, each characterized by a distinct set of physical, physiological, and behavioral features.

6 天之前 · psychology, scientific discipline that studies mental states and processes and behaviour in humans and other animals. The discipline of psychology is broadly divisible into two parts: a large profession of practitioners and a smaller but growing science of mind, brain, and social behaviour.

Evolutionary psychology, the study of behaviour, thought, and feeling as viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology. Evolutionary psychologists presume all human behaviours reflect the influence of physical and psychological predispositions that helped human ancestors survive and …

2024年12月28日 · Human behaviour - Cognitive Development, Piaget's Theory: Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget took the intellectual functioning of adults as the central phenomenon to be explained and wanted to know how an adult acquired the ability to think logically and to draw valid conclusions about the world from evidence.

2024年12月28日 · Human behaviour - Social Interaction, Psychology, Biology: This article treats as separate various substantive spheres of human development (physical, perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, personality, and social), as it does various temporal phases of development (prenatal life, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age).

2025年2月19日 · Human behaviour - Emotions, Development, Socialization: Emotions are distinct feelings or qualities of consciousness, such as joy or sadness, that reflect the personal significance of emotion-arousing events.

2025年1月5日 · John B. Watson is famous for having founded classical behaviourism, an approach to psychology that treated behaviour (both animal and human) as the conditioned response of an organism to environmental stimuli and inner biological processes and that rejected as unscientific all supposed psychological phenomena that were not objectively ...

2024年12月28日 · Human behaviour - Development, Childhood, Socialization: The capacity for language usually emerges in infants soon after the first birthday, and they make enormous progress in this area during their second year.

Humanistic psychology, a movement in psychology supporting the belief that humans, as individuals, are unique beings and should be recognized and treated as such by psychologists and psychiatrists. Learn more about the development and characteristics of humanistic psychology in this article.

2025年2月12日 · Psychology - Brain, Mind, Behaviour: Late in the 20th century, methods for observing the activity of the living brain were developed that made it possible to explore links between what the brain is doing and psychological phenomena, thus opening a window into the relationship between the mind, brain, and behaviour.