PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Bulimia Nervosa, Target2, Junk Food
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Behaviours can be internal we can be enacting behaviour that no one else can see (examples are in slide 2). Behaviours are internal or external responses to internal or external events. Looking sleepy is not a behaviour it"s an adjective it means something different to everything else, the behavioural aspects of it would be posture, drooping eyes, yawning, moving slowly etc. Looking sleepy is subjective but yawning is objective. Similarly, planning a party is not a behaviour it is a series of behaviours. Planning a party is a broad overview being respectful is a trait, it does not describe behaviour therefore, acted respectfully is not a behaviour. A trait is how someone acted in general over time (ex. meticulous) when you see something ending in a y it"s not a behaviour. Overt behaviour covert is on the inside, overt (outside) behaviour involves the physical body. Ex. of a covert behaviour would be thoughts, emotions,
