Thresholds of Behavioral Flexibility in Turbulent Environments for Individual and Group Success

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Jones-Rooy
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Turbulent Environments ◽  
Group Success

FIT – Do Something Different

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben (C) Fletcher ◽  
Jill Hanson ◽  
Nadine Page ◽  
Karen Pine
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Longitudinal Studies ◽  
Behavioral Intervention ◽  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Calorie Intake ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Behavioral Repertoire ◽  
Additional Weight

Two 3-month longitudinal studies examined weight loss following a 1-month behavioral intervention (FIT-DSD) focusing on increasing participants’ behavioral flexibility and breaking daily habits. The goal was to break the distal habits hypothesized as playing a role in unhealthy dietary and activity behaviors. The FIT-DSD intervention required participants to do something different each day and to engage in novel weekly activities to expand their behavioral repertoire. These activities were not food- or exercise-related. In Study 1, the FIT-DSD program was compared with a control condition where participants engaged in daily tasks not expected to influence behavioral flexibility. Study 2 used an active or quasicontrol group in which half the participants were also on food diets. Measures in both studies were taken pre-, post-, and post-postintervention. In Study 1, FIT-DSD participants showed greater weight loss that continued post-postintervention. In Study 2, all participants on the FIT-DSD program lost weight, weight loss continued post-postintervention, and participants who were also dieting lost no additional weight. A dose relationship was observed between increases in behavioral flexibility scores and weight loss, and this relationship was mediated by calorie intake. Corresponding reductions in BMI were also present. Increasing behavioral flexibility may be an effective approach for tackling obesity and also provides affective and potential life-skill benefits.

The Contributions of the Prelimbic Area to Behavioral Flexibility

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Ragozzino ◽  
Jenna Kim ◽  
Derrick Hasstert ◽  
Nancy Minniti ◽  
Charlene Kiang
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Flexibility

Kecakapan Behavioral Dalam Proses Pembelajaran PAI Melalui Komunikasi Interpersonal

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Latifah Latifah ◽  
Ngalimun Ngalimun ◽  
Muhammad Andi Setiawan ◽  
Makmur Haji Harun
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Communication Anxiety ◽  
Social Style ◽  
Interaction Management

Penelitian ini membuat gambaran secara sistematis tentang bagaimana Kecakapan Behavioral dalam proses pembelajaran PAI melalui komunikasi interpersonal di Madrasah Ibtidaiyah AssalamMartapura. Penelitian ini memfokuskan pada kecakapan behavioral yang artinya kecakapan pada tingkat perilaku. Kecakapan ini membantu seseorang untuk melaksanakan perilaku yang membawa seseorang mencapai tujuan dalam komunikasi dengan orang lain. Kecakapan behavioral ini meliputi: 1) Keterlibatan interaktif (interactive involvement). Kecakapan ini menentukan tingkat keikutsertaan dan partisipasi seseorang dalam komunikasi dengan orang lain. Kecakapan ini meliputi, sikap tanggap (responsiveness), sikap perseptif (perceptiveness) dan sikap penuh perhatian (attentiveness). 2) Manajemen interaksi (interaction management). Kecakapan itu membantu seseorang mampu mengambil tindakan-tindakan yang berguna bagi seseorang untuk mencapai tujuan komunikasi. 3) Keluwesan perilaku (behavioral flexibility). Kecakapan ini membantu seseorang untuk melaksanakan berbagai kemungkinan perilaku yang dapat diambil untuk mencapai tujuan komunikasi. 4) Mendengarkan (listening). Kecakapan ini membantu seseorang untuk dapat mendengarkan orang yang berkomunikasi dengan seseorang tidak hanya isi, tetapi juga perasaan, keprihatinan, dan kekhawatiran yang menyertainya. 5) Gaya sosial (social style). Kecakapan ini membantu seseorang dapat berperilaku menarik, khas, dan dapat diterima oleh orang yang berkomunikasi dengan seseorang tersebut. 6) Kecemasan komunikasi (communication anxiety). Dengan kecakapan ini seseorang dapat mengatasi rasa takut, bingung, dan kacau pikiran, tubuh gemetar, dan rasa demam panggung yang muncul dalam komunikasi dengan orang lain.

Phenotypic plasticity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen D. Williams ◽  
Marla B. Sokolowski
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Behavioral Plasticity ◽  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Insect Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Variability ◽  
Gene By Environment Interactions ◽  
Affect Gene Expression

Why is there so much variation in insect behavior? This chapter will address the sources of behavioral variability, with a particular focus on phenotypic plasticity. Variation in social, nutritional, and seasonal environmental contexts during development and adulthood can give rise to phenotypic plasticity. To delve into mechanism underlying behavioral flexibility in insects, examples of polyphenisms, a type of phenotypic plasticity, will be discussed. Selected examples reveal that environmental change can affect gene expression, which in turn can affect behavioral plasticity. These changes in gene expression together with gene-by-environment interactions are discussed to illuminate our understanding of insect behavioral plasticity.

scholarly journals Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-260
Author(s):  
Joseph Cesario ◽  
David J. Johnson ◽  
Heather L. Eisthen
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Behavioral Flexibility ◽  
Brain Structures ◽  
Introductory Psychology ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Accurate Model ◽  
Nervous System Evolution ◽  
Neural Evolution ◽  
Human Brains ◽  
Unanimous Agreement

A widespread misconception in much of psychology is that (a) as vertebrate animals evolved, “newer” brain structures were added over existing “older” brain structures, and (b) these newer, more complex structures endowed animals with newer and more complex psychological functions, behavioral flexibility, and language. This belief, although widely shared in introductory psychology textbooks, has long been discredited among neurobiologists and stands in contrast to the clear and unanimous agreement on these issues among those studying nervous-system evolution. We bring psychologists up to date on this issue by describing the more accurate model of neural evolution, and we provide examples of how this inaccurate view may have impeded progress in psychology. We urge psychologists to abandon this mistaken view of human brains.

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