Monday, October 29, 2007

Understanding Behavior

According to the chapter in the text book, it was interesting to find about the variety sides of behavior.In the book, it also says that behavior is a very important part of the ecological role of any animal. It definitely affects them to survive and reproduce. Last, but not least the book tolds that the actions of the animal have the same motivation as the human being. However, we can't guarantee whether its motivation or directions are same as the human being or not. The animals may not have the same motivations unless we could figure out what they're thinking about.

For me, the most interesting part was "Human behavior",that "phobia" such as a fear of snakes isn't a natural(heredity) behavior, but a learned behavior. Actually, when I think of the days I was young, I had never been afraid of the bugs, flies or insects as well. I didn't react any differently than to other moving objects as it mentions in the book.

2 comments:

Renate said...

In Speaking/Listening 5 I also had a lecture about "phobias". That' s the reason why I know that phobias can be learnd by watching others, but you are rigth it' s surprising.

Up to now I'm not afraid of animals in any way, but I have respect for the poisiounos spiders and snakes in Alabama.

masa said...

I also had same interests to Snakes' behavior. It is a part of myth in human behavior, isn't it? We don't realize whether the object s dangerous or not until we feel scare or are in danger. Maybe, we try to protect ourselves without our notices. It might relate with mental stuff. I like Psychology.