FRHD 3150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Seat Belt, Health Promotion, Fidgeting

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3150
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

Choose on health behaviour and change it for the better: e. g. , exercise, eating, helmet, seat belt, quit smoking, more positive outlook, study better. Human behaviour is highly complex: people are looking for immediate reinforcement, things that happen in their early life affect their current lifestyle. The way in which a person reacts to the environment: we don"t always know how they will act in the environment (classic example: Ww2, listen to dictatorship or be killed and need to kill others i had to kill these people because if i didn"t i would be killed, soldiers put on trial said this. Research was made and it was found that people listen to authority. The way in which an organism works. Martin and pear (textbook authors: covert behaviours or cognitive behaviours. Feelings: overt behaviours visible behaviour, something that can be observed, dimension of a behaviour: duration, intensity, frequency, antecedents what came before.