Talk:Adaptive behavior

Mirandannhunter (talk) 01:54, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Within psychology

The context of “adaptive” here is based within the psychology field. Whilst this ties in with the content/context of the text within the adaptive behavior section there are many more adaptive fields: data communications, manufacturing, gambling, medical, biological etc.

I’m in the process of writing a draft to support a doctorate on adaptive/cognitive network technologies and from my standpoint this word is too big a subject to “fit” solely within this single field

Doug — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.19.88.34 (talk) 14:00, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

How should it be divied up then?

What do you think it should include? Josh.Pritchard.DBA (talk) 19:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Adapting to your environment.

Yes adaptive behaviour is essential to success. If we live in a space full of ease, calm, nutricious food and sunshine we can increase our chances. However, if we grow up in a home packed with fighting parents, poor nutrition and no intruding sunshine then we can definitely develop maladaptive behaviour detrimental to our success. The key is how do you get the bad out of your life. Well you can't, you just have to put up with it. You have to wait until the stressor vanishes, but how long can you wait. That is where natural selection comes into play. We have to accept the fact that things are only going to get worse and worse and worse. We have to develop the attitude that that's how life goes and that no one cares about us and that we don't get all worked up because there are unvariable conditions. This will make us less vulnerable and strengthen us for the next possible situation to escape our bad environment. However, it is important not to lose our train of thought which will make us go into a frenzy and weaken our drive to survive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.150.128.43 (talk) 13:19, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Merge

Adaptive behavior should really be merged with Adaptive behaviors - because, what is the difference??? - but I don't have the time or energy to do this. However, if anybody would feel like doing this, that would be great! Lova Falk talk 09:59, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Support, though I feel this article is better as a foundation, and that behaviors (with an s) should be merged here. Primefac (talk) 22:09, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

It appears consensus is with merge with a question mark on which way. Both of these articles are a mess; full of original research and synthesis. One has a severe lack of references while the other needs more. Initially I was leaning towards merging to the plural because there are many forms of adaptive behaviors, which could use more content, but I think the singular would be more appropriate.

There are some instances to cause laughter. We are in a merge discussion concerning two like named articles with only an "s" being the difference. The second reason to laugh is at the very top of "Adaptive behavior" it states: "This article is about human behaviors. For adaptive behaviors in children, see "adaptive behaviors".". Apparently along with the push that a "human" is not born male or female but is assigned a sex at birth that can be changed later, a child is not born human. What if a child decides not to become human when they are grown? What are they considered before becoming human? Both articles are actually about children, students, other non-adults, and children with disabilities, so a merge would solve that issue.

With all that:

Support merge: To the singular Adaptive behavior as long as it is edited to fit the references or better referenced. Otr500 (talk) 20:54, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Support: A merge seems logical to me. LoudLizard (📞 | contribs | ✉) 14:56, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Agreed and  Done, although the combined article could still do with some pruning and improvement, as it is still rather rambling. Klbrain (talk) 20:26, 5 September 2017 (UTC)