PSY 441 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tropical Cyclone Warnings And Watches, Autism Spectrum, Psych
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Systems theory continued: behavioral function- acting on the plan. Ex: showing up to class, meeting with friends, getting a job etc: transactional function- how system operates in environment. Shuts off members from outside world and in doctrine them to their beliefs. Ex: sanctions on russia and north korea. Another example = jealous (cid:271)o(cid:455)f(cid:396)iend that doesn"t want (cid:455)ou hanging out with othe(cid:396) guys: boundary permeability- if open able to take messages coming to you. Someone on autism spectrum (cid:272)an"t tell so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)ues. Part of boundary permeability is understanding ourselves. Ex: family crisis, death etc: fallacy that world should be in steady state function. Reality: system disruption happens all the time. These things happen and are a part of life. Historically psychology has only studied physiological, emotional, psychological phenomenon . In reality environmental, nature, spiritual just important: spiritual gets really neglected even though 97% of the world has spirituality of some kind. Boundary permeability involved here in trying to fix.
