Talk:Behavior

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In reality, all behavior may well be some mixture of those two types, even in relatively simple organisms...

This needs to be made more specific, and justified with cites, if it is to go back in the article. The Anome

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Removed some wikipedia markup that tried, I think, to vary the sentence "American OR UK spelling: behavior OR behaviour", depending on which word was looked up. This code was broken, so I removed it. It doesn't seem to me to be a big deal whether or not this phrase is included -- the meaning of "behavior" is clear no matter how it's spelled. Is this common practice (to indicate UK or American spelling, depending on which is used in the article)? deadbarnacle

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Removed a remark which didn't seem to have any significance to the article, despite all thematic connections.

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There are some pretty big editing problems on this page. I know nothing about this subject, someone else should fix it.

[edit] what?

Hi, I removed the material below, which while important, did not seem to fit the category of a basic characterization of the term Behavior, but would be very useful if linked to what I have now added as basic content. Looking forward to response to this entry.

Sean Courtney, Alverno College

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In sociology, behavior is considered as having no meaning, being not directed at other people and thus is the most basic human action.

this is pretty bad. why does meaninglessness and indirection of behavior imply mean that it's basic?

im going to do something about this

Humans evaluate the acceptablity of behavior using social norms and regulate behavior by means of social control.

This statement comes from a limited view of behavior that does not include the innnate qualities of human nature. This also seems to suggest that humans consciously mull over nearly everything they do. Once again, this ignores behavior as the consequence of instinct...editing is needed.

I removed the following, not because it seems incorrect but that it seems out of place in a section that is very short and says very little about the concept of behavior as applied to humans (and animals). If the piece/section were substantially longer, these additional pieces might seem more in place. Hope this is ok

Behavior as used in computer science is an anthropomorphic construct that assigns “life” to the activities carried out by a computer, computer application, or computer code in response to stimuli, such as user input. Also, "a behavior" is a reusable block of computer code or script that, when applied to an object (computer science), especially a graphical one, causes it to respond to user input in meaningful patterns or to operate independently, as if alive.

In environmental modeling and especially in hydrology, a behavioral model means a model that is acceptably consistent with observed natural processes, i.e. that simulates well, for example, observed river discharge. It is a key concept of the so-called Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) methodology to quantify how uncertain environmental predictions are.