How do psychologists actually go about the task of adding to our knowledge about human behavior? Primarily, you'll soon see, through the use of three basic procedures: observation, correlation and experimentation. 1. Observation: Describing the World around Us: One basic technique for studying behavior—or any other aspect of the world—involves carefully observing it as it occurs. Such observation is not [...]
In this article we will discuss about the evolutionary ecological approach to human behaviour. In general, animal behaviour researchers have been even more insistent that the human sciences need an evolutionary and ecological theoretical framework than that they need ethological methods. How have more specific lower-level theories imported from animal behaviour informed research on human beings? The question is best [...]
In addition to core gender identity and sexual orientation, several other human behaviours, sometimes called gender role behaviours, show sex differences. They include: (a) Childhood play, (b) Aggression, (c) Interest in parenting or nurturing, (d) Certain cognitive abilities, and (e) Manifestations of neural asymmetry, such as hand preferences for writing and neural asymmetries for language processing. (a) Childhood Play: Several [...]
