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Assistant Professor, Gandhigram Rural Institute
– Deemed To Be University
• What is Behaviour?
• What is Health?
• Why We have to Study [Link]?
• What is Behavioural Science?
Human Behaviour
• Behaviour refers to the actions or reactions of an object or
organism, usually in relation to the environment.
• Human behaviour is the collection of behaviors exhibited by
human beings
• Behaviour can be:
• Conscious or unconscious,
• Overt or covert,
• Voluntary or involuntary.
Human Behaviour
• The behavior of people falls within a range:
Common X unusual,
Acceptable X outside acceptability
• The acceptability of behaviour and normativity is
evaluated relative to social and moral norms and
regulated by various means of social control.
• Social behaviour is behavior specifically directed at
other people.
• All types of human activities
• Any manifestations of life can be called an
activity
• It both bodily and mental.
• Bundle of reactions which an individual
makes in relation to particular environment.
(Physical and social)
• Beh. Is the actions and mannerisms made by
individuals
• Character is qualities that make somebody,
different from people or things
Categories of Human Behaviour
Four categories of human behaviour:
1. Behavior Detectability:
Behaviour we can detect with our senses (e.g, see or
hear) X Behaviour that can not be detected by
our senses (e.g., thinking).
2. Behaviour Purposive viz. goal-driven (involves
action).
Human Behaviour
3. Behaviour involving performance (or skilled
behavior ).
Behavior that demonstrates skills of various kinds
from work to sports.
4. Category of instinctual behaviour, having to do
with the anatomical or physiological nature of the
organism.
Causes of Behaviour
Behaviour
Inherited Learned
Perception,
Personality,
Attitudes,
Values
Causes of Behaviour
• Environmental
• Emotions and feelings
• Needs
• Motivation
• Intellectual perception
Responses
• Physical- Habits, skills
• Organic- Emotions, feelings, tension
• Intellectual- perception, Thinking, Reasoning
• Behaviour is the result of physical and mental factors
(Body and Mind) interacting in complicated ways.
• Behaviuors are responses to stimuli.
• To understand behaviour we must find out the
causes (or stimulus)
• Health is related to human Beahviour
What is Health?
• Health is positive and relative quality of life.
• A Healthy individual is not only physical
health
• Health is a state of complete physical, mental
and social well-being and is not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity- WHO
• Modern concept of Health Extends beyond the
proper functioning of the body.
• It controlled in a sound, efficient mind,
controlled emotions.
• Man is integrated mechanism of Psychosomatic
unit.
• Knowledge, attitude, habit and values leads to
behaviour
Why We have to Study [Link]?
• Behaviour science is important subject
• Concept of health is enlarged
• Interplay of mind and body
• Whoever working with people they must
understand behaviour of people.
Social Sciences
• The study of society and the activities and
relationships of individuals and groups within
society.
Behavioural Sciences (The science of behaviour)
• They must deal with humans directly
• Animals are sometimes used for studying
purposes
• The scientific study of behaviour, facts about the
people, what they do and what they should do is
behaviour science.
• Focus up on the human and better understanding
of human behaviour.
• Organise the facts surrounding the action of the
people
• Sciences concerned with the study, observation
and explanation of human behaviour either in
single individuals or in groups
• Behavioural sciences also concerned with the
study of individual differences in relationship
to behaviour
• Behavioural sciences encompass all the
disciplines that explore the activities of and
interactions among organisms in the natural
world.
• Behavioral science is the study of human
habits, actions, and intentions;
• Behavioral sciences include psychology,
Sociology and anthropology.
• Generally, Behavior science deals primarily
with human action and often seeks to
generalize about human behavior as it relates
to society