Friday, 5 December 2014

Learning Objective 1#

Outline principles that define the biological level of analysis.


  • Principle 1 : The first principle claims that all behaviors have a biological correlate or component. The reasons why our behavior is the way it is today related to the connection of neurotransmitters hormones and genes .Teenagers brain will produce a lot of hormones including stress hormone which stress can make a person’s behavior completely changed.
  • Principle 2 : Animal research can provide insight into human behavior. Because human and some animals share the similar biological or even thinking processes with those animals such as rats or even monkeys.
  • Principle 3 : Human behavior is, to some extent, genetically based.

This means most behaviors are shaped by genetic inheritance, in the form of a genetic predisposition for an illness or a behavior.

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