Animal behaviors are either instinctive or learned. ... With the stimulus of rain a frog dies, just as the rooster crows with the stimulus of dawn, and neither the frog nor the rooster had any choice in the matter, their behaviors were determined by the environment. ...
Seligman - with his theory of learned helplessness - normally any organism will learn to avoid pain, but after teaching an animal there was no escape there is no response. ... By pairing the anxiety producing stimulus with new behaviour the aim is to eliminate the previous reaction. ...
The biological and cognitive approaches use animal studies and brain scans to look at the DNA, genes and neurotransmitters. ... In contrast, the research from the behaviorist approach reduced behavior to a simple stimulus and response relationship and the research is based only at examining the social causes for specific behaviours. ...
The point to be remembered is that wars are initiated in the mind and man is an aggressive animal by nature. ... The triggering action of the environment is known as Stimulus and its response by organism is called Reflex. One must take into account what stimulus does on an organism before and afterwards. ...
