Quotes About Behavior

The dorsomedial striatum, a subregion of the basal ganglia, seems to be critical to goal-directed behavior. If it is damaged, the rat's behavior will quickly become habitual even after limited exposure to a new task. Conversely, damage to the neighboring dorsolateral striatum will lead the rat to be more goal-directed and it will never lapse into habit, even after prolonged training.

It may be, for example, that one key difference between the brains of straight women and lesbians is the function of a particular protein, like a voltage-sensitive potassium channel, that influences the electrical behavior of certain neurons in a brain circuit that influences sexual and gender-typical behavior.

For example, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) relies heavily on homework assignments, such as keeping track of your moods, thoughts, or self-statements; challenging your assumptions and replacing them with alternative ways of thinking; or keeping behavior, sleep, and mood charts.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

When it comes to food, we are, in essence, following an eating script that has been written into the circuits of our brains.

Changing the way a man thought could be done by teaching him. Altering the way he reacted without thought meant tampering with his instincts.

It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.

Are you insane?" "Probably, yes," she said. "Empathy deficit disorder. Excessive violence. Something along those lines.

Who knows, perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things because of it. Is that what happened here?

The sum of all vices does not remain constant. Each one breeds another.

perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things because of it. Is

perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

People want to fit in and do well, and so they do indescribably stupid things.

Who knows, perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things

if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself.

People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things because of it.

Oamenii vor s? fie accepta?i, s? fie competen?i ?i ajung s? fac? prostii inimaginabile din cauza asta.

De ce sunt oare to?i nebunii ?i criminalii atât de religio?i în ziua de azi?

I quickly discovered three distinct traits about my tablemates: They hit each other a lot. They swore a lot. They belched a lot.

Can a machine, educated through a system of reward and punishment, be said to be able to think? Are children, when they cry or laugh, revealing some spark of soul that distinguishes them from machines, or simply following "rules of behavior" with which we as spectators empathize because we are familiar with them? Or to put it another way, does asking whether computers think require us to ask, as well, whether humans compute?

Nor should it be assumed that machines are not capable of deception. On the contrary, the criticism "that a machine cannot have much diversity of behaviour is just a way of saying that it cannot have much storage capacity.

Telling someone in France that they did something that was not correct is an affront to their honor, almost as severe as being told they're mal élevé, or "badly raised.

Mark a hen's comb with an oddly colored spot, or tie it so it hangs in a peculiar direction, and her former flock mates will attack her mercilessly. Jane Goodall, who was the first scientist to observe chimpanzees up close and personal in the wild, noticed that crippled chimpanzees were rejected and attacked by apes that were previously on friendly terms with them.

Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of ant, there is nothing in nature that comes anywhere near approximating it.