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Behavior

Activity in response to internal or external conditions.

Direct answer

Behavior broadly refers to an organism's activities in relation to internal and external stimuli. Psychology studies behavior alongside cognition, emotion, development, social context, and other processes.

Mechanism

How it works

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    Behavior emerges from interactions among goals, learning history, environment, physiology, cognition, and social context.

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    Observable action is evidence about a system, but it does not by itself uniquely reveal motive or identity.

Consequence

Why it matters

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    MyMindMine separates observation from inference so visible behavior does not automatically become a confident story about why someone acted.

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Questions this page answers

3 questions
What counts as behavior?
Can the same behavior have different causes?
How does context change behavior?

Evidence

Sources

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    APA Dictionary: behaviorAmerican Psychological Association

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