Examples of behavioral isolation in the following topics:
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- Reproductive isolation, through mechanical, behavioral, and physiological barriers, is an important component of speciation.
- Reproductive isolation is a collection of mechanisms, behaviors, and physiological processes that prevent the members of two different species that cross or mate from producing offspring, or which ensure that any offspring that may be produced is not fertile.
- Differences in breeding schedules, called temporal isolation, can act as a form of reproductive isolation.
- Behavioral isolation occurs when the presence or absence of a specific behavior prevents reproduction from taking place.
- These two related frog species exhibit temporal reproductive isolation.
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- Social isolation is usually imposed involuntary, not chosen.
- A related phenomenon, emotional isolation may occur when individuals are emotionally isolated, even though they may have well-functioning social networks.
- Socially isolated people have no one to turn to in personal emergencies, no one to confide in during a crisis, and no one against whom to measure their own behavior against or from whom to learn etiquette or socially acceptable behavior.
- Social isolation can be problematic at any age, although it has different effects for different age groups (that is, social isolation for children may have different effects than social isolation for adults, although both age groups may experience it).
- Social contacts influence individuals' behavior by encouraging health-promoting behaviors, such as adequate sleep, diet, exercise, and compliance with medical regimens or by discouraging health-damaging behaviors, such as smoking, excessive eating, alcohol consumption, or drug abuse.
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- As chemists studied organic compounds isolated from plants and animals, a new and subtle type of configurational stereoisomerism was discovered.
- The physical properties of this simple compound were identical, regardless of the source (m.p, 53 ºC & pKa 3.80), but there was evidence that the physiological behavior of the compound from the two sources was not the same.
- Another natural product, the fragrant C10H14O ketone carvone, was isolated from both spearmint and caraway.
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- A feral child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age.
- A feral child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language.
- Some feral children have been confined in isolation by other people, usually their own parents.
- The impaired ability to learn language after having been isolated for so many years is often attributed to the existence of a critical period for language learning at an early age, and is taken as evidence in favor of the critical period hypothesis.
- Several cases have been discovered in which caretakers brutally isolated their children and in doing so prevented normal development.
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- The number, size, and connections among the sub-groupings in a network can tell us a lot about the likely behavior of the network as a whole.
- All of these aspects of sub-group structure can be very relevant to predicting the behavior of the network as a whole.
- Certain individuals may act as "bridges" among groups, others may be isolates; some actors may be cosmopolitans, and others locals in terms of their group affiliations.
- Such variation in the ways that individuals are connected to groups or cliques can be quite consequential for their behavior as individuals.
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- Size (number of people involved) is an important characteristic of groups, organizations and communities in which social behavior occurs.
- Individual behavior deviates substantially in a group setting; therefore, it is difficult to determine group behavior by looking solely at the individuals that comprise the group.
- Individual behavior has been shown to be influenced by the presence of others.
- German sociologist Georg Simmel argued that as the group becomes greater, the individual becomes separated and grows more alone, isolated and segmented.
- Large groups introduce diversity of attitudes and behaviors.
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- Social psychology studies individuals in a social context and examines how situational variables influence behavior.
- Social psychology typically explains human behavior as a result of the interaction of mental states and immediate social situations.
- Thus, social psychology studies individuals in a social context and how situational variables interact to influence behavior.
- Essentially, people will change their behavior to align with the social situation at hand.
- During the years immediately following World War II there was frequent collaboration between psychologists and sociologists; however, the two disciplines have become increasingly specialized and isolated from each other in recent years, with sociologists focusing more on macro-level variables (such as social structure).
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- However, individuals in every society must cope with social isolation.
- Social isolation refers to a complete or near-complete lack of contact with society.
- Social isolation is distinct from loneliness.
- Any individual from any segment of society may be socially isolated, but senior citizens are especially susceptible to the risk factors that may trigger social isolation.
- This indicates a circularity of social isolation and health: individuals who are already marginalized are not pushed toward healthcare and individuals with quickly deteriorating health are more likely to be socially isolated.
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- Family violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one family member against another.
- Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation.
- Abusers use many tactics to exert power over their spouse or partner: dominance, humiliation, isolation, threats, intimidation, denial, and blame.
- Verbal abuse is a form of emotionally abusive behavior involving the use of language.
- Due to economic abuse and isolation, victims usually have very little money of their own and few people on whom they can rely when seeking help.
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- Erik Erikson proposed that people in early and middle adulthood struggle with two particular crises: intimacy vs isolation and generativity vs. stagnation.
- Intimacy vs. isolation (from around age 20 into 30's and beyond) marks the challenge of being alone versus being involved in meaningful relationships.
- This crisis is about the risk of establishing close relationships with a select number of others; without them, an individual risks feeling isolated.
- Some who experience a mid or quarter-life crisis struggle with how to cope and may engage in harmful behaviors, such as abuse of alcohol or drugs or excessive spending of money.