PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Albert Bandura, Determinism, Demonic Possession
13 Jun 2016
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But averaging your behavior across many occasions does reveal distinct traits. Personality traits can even predict mortality and divorce. Personality result of an interaction between people"s traits (including their thinking) and their social context (conditioning or observing others) Reciprocal back and forth influence, no primary cause. 3 ways in which individuals and environments act - different people choose different environments, our personalities shape how we interpret and react to events, our personalities help create situations to which we react. One reason is diagnose a disorder is to make decisions about treating the problem. To treat a disorder, it helps to understand the nature/cause of the psychological symptoms. Proposed that madness is not demonic possession but a sickness of the mind. His human environmental interventions improved lives but did not effectively treat mental illness. The discovery that syphilis causes mental symptoms suggested a medical model for mental illness. The medical world began searching for physical causes and treatments of mentals disorders.
