Sentence examples for explanations of behaviour from inspiring English sources
Appeals to evolutionary principles for explanations of behaviour – we show micro-awakenings because of a primal fear of being eaten – are sometimes rejected as speculative Just So Stories, because they're untestable.
Where evolutionary explanations of behaviour become really interesting is when they home in on what is unique to humanity.Playing games with the truthOne uniquely human characteristic is the playing of games with formal rules.
By exploring explanations of behaviour with respondents from different generations, age differences should be apparent.
Students were less likely to be fearful of genetic explanations of behaviour despite their academic interest in social science.
Environmental explanations of behaviour can, of course, also be presented as deterministic, claiming a closed future for those experiencing poverty and disadvantage.
Social scientists, and criminologists, have presented biological/genetic explanations of behaviour as dangerous in terms of their potential effect on the individuals or groups identified as genetically at risk.
Many of the reasons for attraction cited by behavioural scientists derive their principles from evolutionary pyschology – that is, the explanation of behaviour using evolutionary theory.
I seem to know from my own case that mental events can be the explanation of behaviour, and I know of no other candidate explanation for typical human behaviour, so I postulate the same explanation for the behaviour of others.
However, folk psychology, they argue, is merely a heuristic device invented by human beings in order to make the explanation of behaviour easier.
Many disciplines study the effects of healthy cognition on behaviour, and there is no reason to expect that cognition will suddenly become irrelevant to the explanation of behaviour when we study mental illness.
Thus, for example, consider J.J.C. Smart's (1959) thought that we should identify mental states with brain states, for otherwise those mental states would be "nomological danglers" which play no role in the explanation of behaviour.
