Human Behaviour
Personal, environment, and time dimension have influence on an individual’s understanding and behaviour. Perception is the individual’s selection, organisation, interpretation and response to information from the world around them. Individual personality differences affect understanding of personality of others. The environmental and time dimension influences human behaviour and personal understanding in view of representation such as cognition, perception and language (Dew, Conner and Gar, 2009). Each person has a different behaviour. One needs to understand human behaviour to be able to interpret the character and behaviour of others (Hutchison, 2010).
Diagnostic label classifies individuals for both treatment and research purposes (Gar & Lingler et al., 2009). According to Gar et al., these have an important impact on individual behaviour in terms of interpersonal relationship, attitude towards service utilisation, interactions with the health care community, and participation in clinical research.
The labels have positive and negative implications. Positively, labels provide efficient ways of clinicians and researchers to understand a huge amount of information. They classify patient according to symptoms presentations that imply for a course of prognosis. Negatively, labels serve as cues for a negative stereotype. In addition, the labels create a stereotype about the person, which makes the public reject them as incapable (Gar & Lingler et al., 2009).
Cognition incorporates attention, memory, planning, problem solving, and language. Emotion is a complex state of feeling resulting in physical and psychological changes influencing thoughts and behaviours. Emotion and cognition are non-modular. Two physiological theories of emotion are The James-Lange and Cannon-Bard. Response to physiological reactions identifies the two theories. The mind sends a signal to the body parts, one trembles, increase heartbeats and perspiration. The difference in the theory is that Cannon-Bard theory argues that one react to a stimulus and experiences the associated emotion at the same time while in first responses occur and result and are the cause of emotions (Pessoa, 2009). I align with Cannon-Bard theory. It explains the stages of emotion in a comprehensible manner.
References
Gar, Lingler, J. H., Conner, K. O., Dew, M. A. & A (2009). Diagnostic labels, stigma, and participation in research related to dementia and mild cognitive impairment. Research in gerontological nursing, 2 (2), p. 112.
Hutchison, E. D. (2010). Setting the stage a multidimensional approach. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/36523_PE_Chapter1.pdf [Accessed: 4 Jan 2014].
Pessoa, L. (2009). Cognition and emotion. 4 (1), p. 4567. doi: 10.4249 scholarpedia.4567 [Accessed: 4 Jan 2014].
Use the order calculator below and get started! Contact our live support team for any assistance or inquiry.
[order_calculator]