{"id":7360,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/behavior_mechanism\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:02","slug":"behavior_mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/behavior_mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Behavior mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hypothetical structure in the central nervous system that, when activated, produces an event of behavioral interest such as a particular perception, a specific motor pattern, or an identifiable internal state. &nbsp;Similar in meaning to cognitive structure.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cause_-or_causal_factor-\">Cause (or causal factor)<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_structures\">Cognitive structures<\/a>, <a href=\"mechanism\">Mechanism<\/a>, Process<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hypothetical structure in the central nervous system that, when activated, produces an event of behavioral interest such as a particular perception, a specific motor pattern, or an identifiable internal state. &nbsp;Similar in meaning to cognitive structure. See Cause (or causal factor), Cognitive structures, Mechanism, Process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}