Psychological PerspectiveBased on my research, I believe that the biological perspective can best describe human behaviors. This perspective involves studying the nervous system, endocrine system, immune system, and genetics. Neuroscience, the study of the nervous system, especially the brain, falls under this perspective. The ability to use brain-scanning techniques to capture brain structure and activity provides detail used as insight into our brains' internal signals and processes in correlation with our behaviors. UCLA neuroscientists conducted a study on twenty individuals using fMRI to predict whether the participants would use sunscreen for one week more or less than what they intended. The participants were shown aseries of public service announcements regarding the necessity of using sunscreen daily while their brains, specifically the medial prefrontal cortex, were being scanned. Neuroscientists proved that they could predict for three-quarters of the people whether they would increase their use of sunscreen beyond the participants' expectations. The study's senior author stated, "If you just go by what people say they will do, you get fewer than half of the people accurately predicted, and using this brain region, we could do significantly better." This study is one of many that proves neuroscience's distinct ability to capture our behaviors' internal workings. It is my opinion that without the knowledge of what those signals, interactions, and processes encompass, we would have no leg to stand on in describing the varying behaviors exhibited by human beings across the globe. Because of that, I consider the biological perspective to be the best at describing human behavior."Brain scans predict behavior." Science Scope, vol. 34, no. 3, Nov. 2010, p. 12. Gale Academic OneFile,
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