Biological Perspective Of Behaviour

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The Biological perspective looks at our physical biological make up and our brains to see how that influences our personality, behaviour, etc. Researchers could examine an MRI result in order to see how personality is caused by neurons in the brain. In the evolutionary perspective behaviour is adaptive and hereditary and cultural through the way we have evolved and natural selection. A researcher in this field could observe a flock of birds to see how behaviors pass or change from one generation to the other. Behavioral perspective states all behaviour is learned through the environment rather than from ourselves. Researchers could train a dog to see how fast it can learn certain behaviors. People in the Psychodynamic perspective it is believed

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