PSYB45H3 Chapter 1: CHAPTER 1
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Activity, action, performance, responding, response and reaction; anything that a person says or does. Technically it is any muscular, glandular or electrical activity of an organism. Products of behavior: what you get from performing a behavior (e. g. an a plus in class) Overt behavior: visible behavior that can be observed and recorded by an individual other than the one performing the behavior. Covert: private, internal activities that cannot be readily observed by others; activities that occur within one"s skin and that therefore require special instruments for others to observe thinking and feelings are private behavior. Sometimes we think in words is called private self-talk. Imagining and private self-talk are sometimes also called cognitive behaviors (techniques to deal with these are called cognitive behavior modification) Characteristics of behavior that can be measured are called dimensions of behavior. The duration of behavior is the length of time that it lasts.
