Behaviors – How Society is Changing Them

Behaviours

Behaviours are an action that an organism does when there is a change in stimuli, An example of this is when the light of a stimuli changes an organisms pupils grow. There are many types of behaviour types, some of which are:

• Learned behavior
• Simple behavior
• Innate behavior
• Imprinting

Learned behavior

A Learned behavior is a behaviour that is learnt through life or taught to the organism by another, learned behaviours are actions such as walking, running, jumping and talking (a language).

Simple behaviour

Simple behavior is a behavior that is automatic response to a change in stimuli or where the organism just knows what to do without thinking about it. Innate behavior gives the organism  no choice to not do it (unless the organism tries hard not to) as it is “wired” into its brain and is forced when neccesary. Some examples of innate actions are flinching, breathing, sleeping.

Innate behavior

Innate behavior is a behavior known from birth, in which the organism is not taught it but is stored into its brain as a known behavior. An example of this is that a human baby knows how to cry as soon as it is born from its mother.

Imprinting

Imprinting is where an organism learns a certain thing (usually another organism) and remembers it for life. An example of an organism imprinting is when a duckling is first hatched. It imprints onto the first thing it sees, which is meant to be the mother but in some bizarre cases it is other organisms or even objects.

These behaviours are affected by different things such as the community, technology and the persons state of mind. These things affect the organism in different ways and for different reasons…

Technology

Technology has affected us as humans in many different ways. Mobile phones have forced human interaction to become rare and making humans more lazy. Television makes humans lazier and less social because there is no need to talk to people or travel to places to ask where things are.

The community

The community affects an organism because of peer pressure forcing an organism to do something that it is unwilling to do itself. Like smoking some people don’t want to do it but feel like they must to fit in to their “group” of friends.

State of mind

An organisms state of mind affects its behavior dramatically, for example if an organism is happy it is likely to do something it has learnt to do because it enjoys doing it. Whereas if an organism is sad or in a bad mood it is likely to do an innate behavior because it has no interest in having fun because it is upset.