Seven Behavioral Subsystems by Dorothy Johnson
Dorothy Johnson believes that each individual has a focusing and repeating ways of acting which covers a behavioral system distinct to that individual. These actions or behaviors form outstanding thoughts- out and included functional unit that determines and defines the relations between the person and his environment and establishes the bond of the person to the object,events, and circumstances in his environment. These behaviors are logical, fixed, predicatable and adequately secure and persistent to be satisfying to depiction and clarification. Johnsons identifies seven subsystems within the Behavioral System Model. These subsystems were originally in Johnson’s 1968 paper presented at Vanderbilt University. The seven subsystems are considered to be interrelated, thus changes in one subsystem affect all the subsystem. Seven Behavioral Subsystems The Attachment or Affiliative Subsystem is well-known as the earliest response system to expand in the individual. The most favorable functi...