Reward and Punishment

[Villager]

This will have more concise meaning for anyone who has studied behavioural Psychology.

Some people argue that each and every human behaviour can be attributed to a response to an environmental stimuli, either instintive or learned/taught. They say that no behaviour can escape this rule, however remote and trivial it may seem.

The hippie in me disagrees, and says that while basic human behaviour is determined by these things, we are far more complex animals than that. The calm and collected scientist in me (haha) reasons that if you use your imagination, most things can be attributed to some form of stimuli in one way or another.

Are we merely a species of response? Do we truly have no freedom of thought and action?

[Diva]

I think that while we do learn from both our own and other persons experiences, we also make a choice as to whether we will follow that lesson or disregard it.

[Princess]

human behavior has so many factors.... including biological. I believe our behavior is a combination of a biological bases, with enviornmental influences and personally experienced out comes of specific situations.

But, I do also believe that in Most situations, the envornment has control over and above the individual .....

[kittyroze]

I agree that biology needs to be taken into account. And although depressing, I completely think that we are programmed in some way or another to react the way we do. However, I choose to ignore it and pretend I'm my own unique free-thinking snowflake.

[Jake]

I believe that we can be creatures of habit. While we do have freedom of thought, we tend to follow what we know, mostly out of lazyness