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refers to the action of an organism or system, usually in relation to its environment, which includes the
other organisms or system around as well as the physical environment.
Human Behavior
Is the voluntary or involuntary attitude of a person adopts in order to fit society’s idea of right or wrong.
It is partly determined by heredity and environment, and modified through learning.
Contributors in the study:
Sigmund Freud – the father of psychoanalysis ( instinct )
Francis Galton – Heredity and Human Behavior ( Genetics)
Charles Darwin – Theory of Evolution
KINDS OF BEHAVIOR
1. Overt or Covert Behavior
2. Conscious or Unconscious Behavior
3. Simple or Complex Behavior
4. Rational or Irrational Behavior
5. Voluntary or Involuntary Behavior
Normal and Abnormal Person
Normal Person - behaves according to the norms and standards of the society.
Abnormal Person - fails to meet the characteristics of a normal person.
Characteristics of a Normal Person
Free expression of personality
Adequate security feelings
Efficient contact with reality
Adaptability to group norms
Emotional maturity
Adequate self-knowledge
Integrated and consistent personality
Abnormal Behavior
Is something deviating from the normal or differing from the typical.
is a behavior that is deviant, maladaptive or personally distressful over a long period of time.
How abnormal behavior is identified:
1. Deviation from statistical norm:
a. Intelligence
It is statistically abnormal for a person to get a score about 145 on an IQ test or to get a score below
55.
b. Anxiety
A person who is anxious all the time or has a high level of anxiety and someone who almost never
feels anxiety are all considered abnormal.
Legal Definition
refers to action that are prohibited by the state and punished under law.
Moral Definition
- actions that maybe rewarding to the actor but that inflicts pain or loss to others.
Origins of Criminal Behavior
1. Biological factor 2. Personality Disorder 3. Learning Factor
Factor
Terrible Triad for Serial Killer
1. Bed wetting
2. Fire Starting
3. Animal Torture
Two types serial killer based on the serial killer's motive
1. Act-Focused - does'nt kill for the psychological gratification but making the act itself their
emphasis
VISIONARY - receives a vision or hears a voice
MISSIONARY - mission to eradicate a specific group of people
2. Process-Focused - killing for enjoyment
FOUR SUBTYPES
Gain power
thrill lust
Personality
refers to the sum total of typing ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that makes each person unique.
Types of Personality
• Introvert
• Extrovert
6 approaches to personality
Psychoanalytical Approach
id, ego. superego
Levels of awareness
Conscious Preconscious Unconscious
Trait Approach
Attempt to learn and explain the traits that make up personality, the differences between people
in terms of their personal characteristics and how they relate to actual behavior
Biological Approach
Emphasizes the role of biological processess and heredity as the key to understanding behavior.
Humanistic Approach
Identifies personal responsibility and feelings of self acceptance as the as the key cause of differences in
personality.
Behavioral/Social Learning Approach
the role of environment in shaping behavior.
Cognitive Approach
looks at differences in the way people process information to explain differences in behavior.
Psychosexual Stage (SF)
1. Oral Stage — 0 to 18 mons
2. Anal Stage — 18 mons to 3 years old
3. Phallic Stage — 3 to 6 years old
4. Latency Stage — 6 to 11 years old
5. Genital Stage— 11 years old and above
this refers to an instance where in boys build up a warm and loving relationship with mothers
OEDIPUS COMPLEX
this refers to occasion wherein girls experience n intense emotional attachment for their fathers
ELECTRA COMPLEX
Factors Altering Behavior and Coping Mechanism
Emotion
refers to feelings affective responses as a result of physiological arousal, thoughts and belief , subjective
evaluation and bodily expression.
It is a state characterized by facial expression gesture, posture and subjective feelings.
Emotional Disorders – Feeling
Exaltation – feeling of unwarranted well-being and happiness.
Apathy – serious disregard for the surrounding and the environment.
Phobia –excessive, irrational and uncontrollable fear of a perfectly natural situation or object.
Phobias
Acrophobia - Fear of heights
Biblophobia - fear of books
Hematophobia - fear of blood
Melancholia – intense feeling of depression.
Mania – a state of excitement accompanied by exaltation or a feeling of well-being which is out
of harmony with the surrounding circumstances of the patient.
Obsession – condition of the mind bordering from sanity and insanity.
CONFLICT
is a stressful condition that occurs when person must choose between incompatible or contradictory
alternatives.
Types of Conflict
Psychological Conflict (internal Conflict)
Social Conflict
Approach-Avoidance
Types of Conflicts
Double Approach Conflict – a person is motivated to engage in two desirable activities that
cannot be pursued simultaneously.
Double Avoidance Conflict – a person faces two undesirable situations in which the avoidance
of one is the exposure to the other resulting to an intense emotion.
Approach-Avoidance Conflict – a person faces situation having both a desirable and
undesirable feature
Multiple Approach-Avoidance Conflict – a situation in which a choice must be made between
two or more alternatives each has both positive and negative features. It is the most difficult to
resolve because the features of each portion are often difficult to compare.
Maynard is the only son of his parents. He always takes into consideration the decision that they make
for him. However, he overthink as to what course he will take up in college, for his father want him to
enrol in criminology, but his mother want him in to be a chief. Which of the following explains the
scenario presented.
APPROACH – APPROACH CONFLICT
DEPRESSION
feeling of miserable thought, that a calamitous incident occurred in his life, something has gone wrong
with his bodily functions and prefers to be quiet and in seclusion.
STRESS
refers to the consecquence of the failure of an organism-human or animal – to respond appropriately to
emotional or physical threats, whether actual or imagined.
Stressors
is anything (physical or psychological) that produces stress (negative or positive).
Types of Stress
Eustress
Distress
FRUSTRATION
is a negative emotional state that occurs when one is prevented from reaching goals.
an unpleasant state of tension and heightened sympathetic activity, resulting from a blocked goal.
The following are common responses to frustration:
Aggression Scapegoating
Displaced Aggression Escape
During the final examination, Simon wishes to obtain the highest score in the subject human behavior,
but it turned out that he fails to achieve the said goal. Thus, he refused to talk to his friends and condemn
them as the reason why he got a low score. What type of response does Simon show?
SCAPEGOATING
COPING MECHANISM vs. DEFENSE MECHANISM
COPING MECHANISM
- are the sum total of ways in which people deal with minor stress and trauma.
DEFENSE MECHANISM
- refers to an individual’ way of reacting frustration. These are unconscious psychological strategies
brought into play by various entities to cope with reality and to maintain self-image.
SEXUAL DISORDER
Sexual Dysfunctions
is a persistent or recurrent problem that causes marked distress and interpersonal difficulty and that may
involve any or some combination of the following:
sexual arousal or the pleasure associated with sex; orgasm.
What is the Human Sexual Response Cycle ?
Responses during sexual stimulation
Types of Sexual Dysfunction
A. DYSFUNCTIONS OF SEXUAL DESIRE (occurs during the Excitement Phase)
Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
Sexual Aversion Disorder
B. DYSFUNCTIONS OF SEXUAL AROUSAL (occurs during the arousal/plateau phase)
Male Erectile Disorder (previously called as impotence)
Female Sexual Arousal Disorder ( previously called frigidity)
C. DYSFUNCTIONS OF ORGASM (occurs during the Orgasmic Phase)
1. Premature Ejaculation 2. Female Orgasmic Disorder 3. Male Orgasmic Disorder
D. SEXUAL PAIN DISORDERS
1. Vaginismus
2. Dyspareunia
E. HYPER SEXUALITY
1. Nymphomania (or furor uterinus)
2. Satyriasis - the etymology is satyr.
PARAPHILIAS
-(in Greek ‘para’= over ‘philia’= friendship) is a rare mental health disorder term recently used to
indicate sexual arousal in response to sexual objects or situations that are not part of societal normative
arousal/activity patterns.
COMMON FORMS OF PARAPHILIA ARE :
EXHIBITIONISM
Fetishism
People with a fetish experience sexual urges and behavior which are associated with non-living objects.
TYPES OF FETISHISM
Sexual Transvestic Fetishism
Foot Fetishism
Tickling Fetishism
Wet and Messy Fetish (WAM)
Pygmalionism - It is a sexual deviation Scatologia
whereby a person has sexual desire for
statues. Coprophilia
Incendiarism Scoptophilia
Pedophilia Zoophilia
Masochism
involves acts in which a person derives sexual excitement from being humiliated, beaten, bound, or
otherwise abused.
Sadism
Is the act attaining sexual pleasure or gratification by the infliction of pain and suffering upon another
person.
GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER
Category of Sexual Abnormalities
A. Sexual Abnormalities as to the Choice of Sexual Partner:
Heterosexual Bestosexual
Homosexual Autosexual- (Self Gratification or
Masturbation)
Infantosexual
Incest
B. Sexual Abnormalities as to Instinctual Strenght of Sexual Urge:
Over Sex Sexual Anesthesia
Satyriasis Dyspareunia
Nymphomania Vaginismus
Under Sex
C. Sexual Abnormalities as to Mode of Sexual Expression or Way of Sexual Satisfaction:
Oralism
Fellatio ( Irrumation)
Cunnilingus
Sado-Masochism ( Algolagnia)
Sadism
Masochism
Fetishism
4. Assassination/ Liquidation Targets are often predictable, and invariably, the terrorist will claim
responsibility for the assassination mostly government officials, corporate executives, military and
police and security officer.
5. Ambush = this is a well-planned, generally well-thought –out, properly rehearsed and precisely
executed operation.
6. Kidnapping = kidnapping for ransom is the most common form of this tactic.. The victim is normally
confined in a secret hideaway and the kidnapper makes material demands.
7. Hostage-taking = the hostage taker confronts the authorities and openly holds the victims for ransom.
His demands are often more than just material in nature
HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS
mutual discussion between authorieties and a hostage-takert or barricaded offender leading to n
agreement concerning the release of hostages or the surrender of the offender.
NEGOTIATION
- is the process of inter personal communication in which interested parties resolve dispute agree upon.
Crisis Management Action Group
1. Negotiation Group = composed of selected civilian officials/personalities and military/police
personnel for the purpose of negotiating with the terrorist elements and performing liaison functions
between them and the On-Scene Command Post.
Negotiation Team =include psychologist or an interpreter whose primary concern
is to save lives, prevent destruction of property and pave the way for a peaceful
resolution of the crisis situation.
Liaison Team = coordinates the negotiation team and OSC .
2. Operation Groups = composed of regular and special military and police elements deployed in the
crisis incident site to perform security functions.
They conduct tactical operations necessary and appropriate to neutralize the terrorist elements at the
earliest possible time and at minimum risk and cost to life and property.
3. Service Support Group = this group shall be composed of civilian agencies/organizations and
military police units tasked to provide the necessary administrative, operational and logistical support to
the OSC Post. These include food distribution, medical evacuation, communication-electronics,
transportation and other services.
Investigation team Medical team
Intelligence team Administrative Support team
Communications-Electronics team Fire-Fighting Team
Logistic team
HOSTAGE
A person or entity who is held by a captor.
HOSTAGE-TAKER
A person or party who seize or hostages.
GENERIC CATEGORIES OF HOSTAGE-TAKERS
1. The common criminal –concede to police negotiations.
2. The Psycho – unpredictable & may resort to violence depending on his mood.
3. The Fanatic- most dangerous , extreme side of violence.
PERSONALITY TYPES OF HOSTAGE-TAKERS
1. Psychotics
a. Paranoid Schizophrenics =they are characterized by persistent false mental perceptions or beliefs such
as delusions or persecution. Their thinking is often loose and makes no sense.
b. Inadequate personalities = they are unable to respond effectively to emotional, social, intellectual an
physical demands. They show ineptness, poor judgment, social instability and they lack physical and
emotional stamina.
What to do when Hostage Crisis occur?
First Arrival
Isolate, Contain, Evaluate, Report (ICER)
Assessing the Hostage Situation
Preventing Early Harm Creating Normality
Getting Organized Creating Humanity
Finding Information Developing Authority
Getting Close
Policies in Handling Crisis/Hostage Situation
Peaceful means and other options in the Prompt Handling of a Crisis at the
Resolution of a Crisis lowest Level Possible
No-Compromise with Terrorist Respect for Human Rights
Safety of Victims and Civilians Crisis Situation involving Foreign
Nationals
Handling Hostage Situations
PNP shall ensure the safety of civilian hostages.
Understand and minimize the mental anguish and agony of the victim's of the family.
Achieve the early liberation of the hostages or victims.
SIGNIFICANCE OF DEBRIEFING
There should be a debriefing after the resolution of any crisis incident.
Debriefing should take place immediately following an incident.
Debriefing should focus on how the various units handled.
Hostage Crisis
- Develops when one or more terrorists or criminals hold people against their will and try to hold off the
authorities by force.
Stages of Hostage Situation
A. Alarm Stage
— most traumatic and dangerous.
— emotion of hostage taker is at highest peak.
— may inflict physical harm or even kill anyone.
— rationalization and proper thinking is low.
B. Crisis Stage
— stage when negotiation starts intiated by crisis negotiator.
— stage which may predict the remainder of solution.
C. Accomodation Stage
— distinguished by boredomes and moments of terror.
— captors has increase controls over hostage.
— hostage developed sympathy over captors.
D. Resolution Stage
— stage when hostage taker is being stressed out or fatigued of the situation.