BEHAVORIAL BIOLOGY

(PHYSIOLOGY OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR)

Dr. Karzan A. Mohammad

Associate Professor
PhD BiomedicalSciences
DEFINITION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Human behavior It includes everything

encompasses all the from our daily routines
actions, reactions, and and habits to our
conduct of individuals emotions, thoughts, and
and groups of people. interpersonal
interactions.
 HUMAN BEHAVIOUR =
BODY MIND INTERACTION

• Sense Organs (Receptors)

• Muscle and Endocrine glands (Effectors)
• Nervous system (Connector + Integrator)
KEY COMPONENTS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Cognition: Emotion: Social Motivation:

The mental The complex Interactions: The driving force
processes interplay of How individuals behind our
involved in physiological interact with actions. It can be
acquiring, and others, including intrinsic (internal)
processing, and psychological communication, or extrinsic
using responses that cooperation, (external).
information. This influence our conflict, and
includes feelings, mood, social norms.
perception, and reactions to
memory, various stimuli.
decision-making,
and problem-
 POSSIBILITIES OF BEHAVIOUR

Man Punched his colleague

Creepy, mentally ill. Midlife Crisis. Genetic Mutation.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Prenatal events
SEX Orientation Religion and and Political Biology and
and Genetics? Genetics? Opinions after Religion?
30 yrs later?

GOD? SOULS? Intelligence and

HEART? FREE EVOLUTION? Gender?
WILL?
NATURE VS NURTURE

Human behavior is influenced by both genetic factors (nature) and

environmental factors (nurture).

The debate over the relative importance of nature and nurture

continues to be a central theme in the study of human behavior.
CONNECTION

1 2 3 4
Having Your Having Brain Eating Lots of Taking Lots of
Period Tumor Junk Foods Steroids
CATAGORIZED THINKING

• Runner (Speed)
• Rainbow
• Shapes
PROBLEMS WITH CATAGORIZED THINKING

Language (Accent) (P and B)

49- 50 Passing and Failing

Phone Numbers (3 digits, 2 digits, 1digit)

Number series (66 74 83 96 ?)

 BUCKETS (CATAGORIES)

Hormonal Anatomical Evolutionary ENVIRONMENTAL

Level View Aspects FACTOR
BREAKING CATAGORICAL THINKING

Gene Protein Childhood Trauma Environment

(NeuroTransmitter) (Bucket)
 • JOHN WATSON 1912
(CONTROLING CHID WILL TURN HIM INTO
WHAT YOU WANT)
• EGAS MONIZ 1949
FALSE QUOTES (SYNAPSES ADJUSTMENT) (LOBOTOMY)
 • WE ARE JUST LIKE OTHER ANIMALS (EVOLUTION)
OVULATION AND MENTRUATION (HAMSTER, FEMALES)

• We use physiology by sitting down or being in a fight

COURSE
CHALLENGES
• We are doing stuff other animals not accepting it (Couple
Un-Reproductive Sex)