Cultural Perspectives: Social-Cultural, Neuroscience, And Beha

Perspectives: Social-Cultural, Neuroscience, and Behavioral

Social-Cultural Perspective

According to the social-cultural perspective, the individual cut me off in traffic because of his/her understanding of circumstances in traffic and the implication of the behavior of cutting someone off. In this case, the consequences placed on such an individual can act as a motive or demotivate. In this case, the individual recognizes an opportunity to act based on reinforced thought patterns in social situations. The cognitive and psychological influences of behavior exist around an individual in society and continue to influence perceptions that in turn affect behavior choice in a given situation.

Neuroscience Perspective

The neuroscience perspective

would explain that a person cuts off another one in traffic because of a developed thought pattern that governs his or her behavioral choices. People create connections to see a meaning in detached things or factors in their lives. A person in traffic may develop a mental association where cutting others off seems to get them to the destination quicker than the other people in traffic. Alternatively, he or she could be relying on a mental model showing that those who cut other off do not have a right to do so and the best way to handle the situation is by doing the same thing.
Behavioral Perspective
The behavioral perspective sees all human behavior as intentional or relational based on existing relationships between the stimulus and the response. For instance, the lack of complaints by other drivers or the lack of dire consequences after cutting others off might be the reasons why someone options to act in the given way in traffic. The presence of an incentive to do something and the existence of the capacity to do so allow a person takes a particular action. Thus, the relationship of rules on the road, their enforcement, and the individual situation the driver faced might be the reasons explaining his/her behavior.