FIVE GENERAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Five General Perspectives on Human Behavior



Five General Perspectives on Human Behavior

“The human experience involves five general perspectives on human behavior? each of which emphasizes different factors. These are the biological? learning? sociocultural? cognitive? and psychodynamic perspectives. This paper delineates how each of these perspectives explains the beginning? development? and maintenance of a stable marital relationship. The human experience involves five general perspectives on human behavior each of which emphasizes different factors. These are the biological learning sociocultural cognitive and psychodynamic perspectives. This paper very briefly delineates how each of these perspectives explains the beginning development and maintenance of a loving and stable marital relationship. Bateson states that the basic biological perspective is that all human behavior is biogenetic at its foundation.

Five General Perspectives of Romantic Relationship Introduction Romantic relationships are probably the happiest feelings and the most complicated relationships known to man. Their manifestations can be easily viewed by the naked eye. It makes us go green with envy when we see romantic people showing their love for each other. During the early stages of the relationship? the feeling of elation is present. Love is said to be biological for there is the innate need to be close to someone? to share our feelings and see them reciprocated? to be cared for? to be touched? and to be loved in return. However? did you know that it takes sometime for humans to love? First ?there 's the holding ? stroking ? kissing and nursing of the infant (Alberoni 1983 .Perspectives of Human Behavior As human beings ? our behaviors are greatly influenced by at least five general perspectives namely biological ? learning ? social and cultural ?cognitive ? and psychodynamic influences ? On the biological perspective ? it explains that human beings are actually made up of genes whose main objective is to reproduce . Husbands and wives must be connected sexually to produce their heirs (Laland and Brown 2002 . Of course? the biological aspect seems unromantic . It is understood that humans must perform the sexual act to produce offspring .Husbands and wives must perform the act to have their children . However? we must look at romantic love as sexual . God has commanded his people to `go forth and multiply . With the absence of sex in the relationships of husbands and wives ? it is no different from other relationships . Normally ? men like women who have the characteristics? which echo health and fertility ? while on the other hand ? women like men who have attributes? which reflect health and status . The qualities that both men rate first are apparently non-biological.

In a study conducted among over10 ?000 people across 37 cultures ? psychologist David Buss discovered that both men and woman rate intelligence and kindness as the foremost qualities they look for in a mate . However? even this makes genetic sense :kindness and intelligence indicate the psychological and social qualities? which are essential for ...