CHAPTER II – Human Behavior and

Coping/Defense Mechanism

OBJECTIVE
S; At the end of the unit, students will be able to:
• Define and explain emotion and its Theories

SOCIAL MEDIA | QUARTERLY REPORT DECEMBER 2020

The terrible triad for serial killers

The three characteristics of almost serial killers
during their childhood are: bed-wetting, fire-
starting and animal torture.
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Bed-wetting
1.- bed wetting is the most intimate of these, “triad” symptoms, and is less
likely to be willfully divulged. By some estimates, 60% of multiple murderers
wet their beds past adolescence. Kenneth Bianchi apparently spent many a night
marinating in urine-soaked sheets.

Fire-starting (fascination of
fire)
Otis Toole and Carl Panzram were two serial killers who started fire during their childhood.
Carl Panzram burned down the reformatory he was sent to. Toole set fire to a neighbor’s house.
Fire fascination was an early manifestation of their obsession with destruction.
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Animal Torture (Cruelty to

Animals)

Most serial killers, before moving to human victims, start

with animals. Ed Kemper killed neighborhood cats. A dog’s
severed head was found on a stick in the wood near Jeffrey
Dahmer’s childhood home.

Note: There is no guarantee that if the three

aforesaid conditions are present, the child will
grow as serial killer. They are only early signs to
beware of.

Childhood characteristics of serial killer

a.Majority of serial killers have a history of sexual and physical abuse
during their childhood.
b.Half of the serial killers’ families, the biological father had left before
the child were 12 years old. In cases where the father didn’t leave, he
was domineering and abusive.
c.Delinquent acts such as pyromania, theft, and cruelty to animals were
present during the childhood of the most killers.

What is Human
Intelligence?
Human Intelligence generally points to at least three characteristics. First, Intelligence
is best understood as a compilation of brain-based cognitive abilities. According to 52
eminent researches, intelligence reflects`` a very general mental capability that,
among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think
abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience’’.

What is emotion;
Theories
It is a state characterized by facial expressions, gestures, postures and subjective
feelings.
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Theories of emotion are:

1.James-Lange Theory by William James and Carl Lange – James Lange theory states
that emotion results from physiological states triggered by stimuli in the environment:
emotion occurs after physiological reactions. This theory and its derivatives states that
a change situation leads to changed bodily stat. as James says” the perception of
bodily changes as they occur is the emotion.”

Theories of emotion are:

James further claims that ‘ we feel sad because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid
because we tremble, and neither have we cried, strike, nor tremble because we are
sorry, or fearful, as the case may be,” the James Lange theory has now been all but
abandoned by most scholars.

Theories of emotion are:

Cannon-bard Theory by Walter Cannon and Philip Bard- this suggest that people feel
emotions first and then act upon them. This is a theory that emotion and physiological
reactions occur simultaneously. These actions include changes in muscular tension,
perspiration, etc The theory was formulated following the introduction of the Jame-
lange theory of emotion in the late 1800s, which alternately suggested that emotion is
the result of one’s perception of their reaction or bodily change

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