UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR
BEHAVIOR
 Organism’s responses to stimulation or
environment.
Two basic Types of Behavior
1. Inherited
- Any behavioral response or reflex exhibited
by people due to their genetic endowment
or the process of natural selection.
- Otherwise known as Innate Behavior
2. Learned
- Involves cognitive adaptation that enhances
the human beings ability to cope with
changes in the environment
- Called as Operant Behavior
Kinds of Behavior (CORVS)
1. Conscious and Unconscious
- Conscious Behavior; when a person is
aware of his actions.
- Unconscious or Unaware; acts are
embedded in one’s sub consciousness
2. Overt and Covert
- Overt behavior; directly observable,
outwardly manifested.
- Covert behavior; not visible to the naked
eye, hidden.
3. Rational and Irrational
- Rational; done with sanity.
- Irrational; done without knowing the
nature and consequences of the action.
4. Voluntary and Involuntary
- Voluntary; act done willingly
- Involuntary; body activities and process
that we cannot stop even we are sleeping
like breathing circulation of the blood and
metabolism.
5. Simple and Complex
- Simple; less number of neurons used.
- Complex; more number of neurons used.
Aspects of Behavior (ISEP-PMA)
1. Intellectual – mental processes such as decision
making, reasoning and solving problems.
2. Social – Interaction and relationship with other
people.
3. Emotional – concerns with our feelings, moods
and temper.
4. Psychosexual – state of being whether man or
woman; referring to our expression of love to
another person irrespective of sex.
5. Political – Aspect of behavior involving our
ideology towards government.
6. Moral – pertains to our conscience whether the
action is good or bad.
TYPES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR (IHCS)
1. Instinctive – This type of behavior is unlearned
since the person’s action is dictated by his
instinct.
2. Habitual – Deals with the person’s motor,
emotional and language that is regularly
repeated and tend to occur subconsciously.
3. Complex – Characterized by two or more
habitual behavior occur I one situation.
4. Symbolic – Type of behavior happens when a
person uses sign as subtitles for words to
describe a particular thing or event.
1. Primarily Native or Learned
Drives- states that a driving force originates
from natural need, like thirst.
Instinct- refers to an innate biological force
which commands an individual to behave in a
particular way.
Learning- a relatively permanent change in
behavior that occurs as a result of prior
experience.
2. Evoked by External Stimuli or Internal Need
3. Automatic, Voluntary, Conscious, Motor or
Intentional
 ATTRIBUTES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR (E-D-IQ)
1. Extensity- focuses in size, distance and
location.
2. Duration- deals with the function of time.
3. Intensity- centers of terms of magnitude
4. Quantity- concerned with normal and
abnormal traits
FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE HUMAN BEHAVIOR (HEL)
DEFENSE MECHANISM (CAW)
2. Environment- consists of the condition and
factors that surround and influence an
individual.
3. Learning- the process by which behavior
changes because of experience or practice.
CAUSE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR (SPA)
1. Sensation (VAGOC) – relates to the feeling of
impression or stimulus; categorized into five, to
with;
a. Visual – sense of sight
b. Auditory- sense of hearing
c. Gustatory- sense of taste
d. Olfactory- sense of smell
e. Cutaneous- sense of touch
2. Perception- deals with the person’s knowledge
of a given stimulus which largely helps to
determine the actual behavioral response in a
given situation.
3. Awareness- concerned with psychological
activity based on the interpretation and
experience of object or stimulus.
WAYS ON HOW PEOPLE INTERACT (CAP)
1. Child Ego (RED SID)
- Rebellious, Emotional, Dependent, Selfish,
Impatient and Demanding.
2. Adult Ego (RFC WF)
- Reasons, Factual Co-equal, Worthy and
Flexible.
3. Parent Ego (PIERR)
- Protective, Idealistic, Evaluative, Righteous
and Refers to laws, rules and standards.
HOW PEOPLE TRANSACT? (C-NC)
1. Complimentary- happens when the stimulus
and response patterns from one ego state to
another are parallel.
2. Non-Complimentary- characterized when the
stimulus and response patterns from one ego
state to another are Not Parallel.
- When a person is threatened by severe
emotional injury arising from frustration, he
resorts to unconscious psychological
processed which serve as a psychological
equilibrium.
1. Compromise Reaction (C-SIS)
A. Compensation- process of balancing
inferiority by doing well in another activity,
one thinks could succeed.
B. Substitution- process of replacing an
unattainable or unacceptable goal by one
that is attainable or acceptable.
C. Isolation- process of avoiding conflict
D. Sublimation- process of changing
unacceptable impulses or needs into
socially and culturally acceptable channels
or means.
2. AGGRESSIVE REACTION (SDP)
A. Suicide- process of destroying oneself.
B. Displacement- process of directing anger to
something other than the one e is
somewhat angry at.
C. Projection- process of blaming other’s for
one’s own mistake.
3. Withdrawal (DR-FNR)
A. Depression- process of excluding memories
causing pain.
B. Regression- process of going back to a
pattern of behaving which was proper to an
earlier stage of development.
C. Fantasy- also known as daydreaming;
process of imagining sequence of events.
D. Nomadism- process of traveling, migrating
or loitering as a form of withdrawal from
the present problem or sad reality of life.
 E. Reaction Formation- doing the opposite of
that we do not want to recognize.
WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY?
- Branch of knowledge regarding human
behavior.
- Comes from two greek words:
- Pysche which means mind
- Logos which means knowledge or study.
- “Study of the mind”
- A systematized knowledge that is gathered
by carefully observing and measuring
events.
- A behavioral science, therefore, aims to
explain, predict, and control human
behavior.
Psychologist
 The person who is expert in Psychology
 Uses different methods and techniques of
science in order to investigate behavior and
mental processes.
WHAT IS CRIMINAL PYSCHOLOGY?
 Behavior is what can be observed from outside.
 Mental processes refer to our thoughts,
feelings, sensations, and various internal
processes.
 Crminal Psychology is the study of criminal
activities, behavior and conduct in an attempt
to discover intermittent patterns and to create
set of laws about his behavior.
 Intersection of Psychology and Criminology as
well as the criminal justice.
 Enhances the study of behavior of the offenders
an dimprove the investigation of the crime by
adding a psychological component such as the
mental health status.
PSYCHOANALYTICAL THEORY OF HUMAN PERSONALITY
(IES)
What is ID?
 Refers to the unconscious Instinctual Drive of a
person which is based on the Principle of
Pleasure.
 Contains all the urges and impulses included
libido because the satisfaction of it gives
enjoyment to the person.
What is EGO?
 The only part of conscious personality that is
dominated by the Principle of Reality.
 Tries to mediate the demands of the Id and
prohibition of the superego.
What is SUPER EGO?
 The conscience of man which is the unconscious
part of our personality.
 Represented by the Voice of God,
commandment of the community or self-
goodwill and sense of right and wrong.
PERSONALITY AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
Is there a criminal personality?
 Researcher have shown varied and
contradictory findings as to whether or not be
distinctive personality pattern of the criminal or
personality traits are considered causative
factors of criminal behavior.