Types of Behavior

In studying Psychology, there are 8 types of behavior that a Psych student must know, these are: Overt Behavior, Covert, Conscious, Unconscious, Rational Behavior, Irrational, Voluntary Behavior and its opposite: Involuntary Behavior.

Overt Behavior: This behavior is such an obvious act or behavior. It is a behavior that is observable by people. Based on my research, the perfect example of person that has its is a racist. Racists have no trouble of expressing their feelings, views and thoughts. What they have in mind, they speak openly. Overt Behavior may include walking, singing and other examples of bodily actions.

Covert Behavior: Opposite of overt behavior, covert behavior is a type of behavior that is an unobvious manner and a type of behavior that is being disguised and secret. It is any kind of action that can't be easily observed by other people. This behavior includes lying, praying, thinking and dreaming as an example of covert behavior.

Conscious Behavior: Is a type of behavior is conscious or aware. It is an action you do from what you really wanted to do. Example of this is making breakfast. You make and eat breakfast because you are hungry. It is like you know what you're doing or action with purposive conduct.

Unconscious Behavior: A type of behavior where the person is unaware of what he's doing. It is because of the automatic response of the body such as breathing and the beating of our hearts. Unconscious behavior is doing anything without thinking of any motivation because it is automatically done. Screaming because of cockroaches, spiders of females are like examples of unconscious behavior.

Rational Behavior: A type of behavior that is reasonable and used to explain the choices that people make with regards to achieving satisfaction. It is like, people would rather be better off or have more than less. For example, a person is more likely to buy an item at a lower price like items on sale because they believe it is better.

Irrational Behavior: It is defined as unreasonable behavior or having no clear objective or meaning. Example of this based of what I've red is, you want to have a good day yet you punch the mailman in the face. It is senseless and meaningless.

Voluntary Behavior: Behavior that a person is naturally contributed to an action. It also means that you have a free will and able to make a decision to take a specific action. Taking a walk down the street is an example of voluntary behavior.

Involuntary Behavior: Behavior that can't be controlled over. Example of this is when being emerged into bright sunlight from a dark place, we usually blink several times often without even knowing it.

I observed while doing this, these types of behavior is likely connected or similar from each other. So I think, it is more easier for us Psych students to study and we're enjoying it so much.