Behavioral Psychology: Understanding Human Behavior

Learn about the fundamentals of human and animal behavior based on behaviorism or behavioural psychology.

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What Will I Learn?

• Understand the basic processes that motivate organisms to take actions.
• Understand why we react and behave in certain ways.
• Learn how to predict and control of behavior, based primarily on observable phenomena.
• Explore the basic principles of behavioral psychology.
• Understand how to adjust your environment in such a way that it makes it easier to adopt good habits.
• Thorough dives into strategies that you can adopt to improve your self-control skills.
• Get a firm grasp of the two fundamental ways of acquiring knowledge.
• Learn how to create schedules of reinforcement to motivate yourself and others to adopt a desirable behavior.
• Find out how the individual behavior is constructed as part of a larger social scheme.
• Learn how to use classical conditioning to your benefit.
• Explore the most efficient schedules to motivate and maintain behaviors.
• Learn about self-control and its importance.
• Learn about the origins of behaviorism.
• And much more!

Requirements

• Willingness to enrich your knowledge.

Target audience

• Anyone interested in behavioral psychology.