PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Frequency-Dependent Selection, Demonic Possession, Quantitative Genetics
16 Sep 2013
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Many people believe in demonic position (position by demons) as cause of abnormal behaviour: there are cultures where that is the dominant explanation. Most would prefer medical model of abnormal behaviour as disease/sickness. Nov. 7, 2012: there is a tremendous similarity between using medical model and those who use demonic possession, responsibility is gone blame on internal or external causes beyond our control, we have more responses to this dimension. Mental illness (vs. abnormal behaviour) prejudges the case abnormal behaviour = normal can be strictly statistical (most people don"t do that) Our attitudes relate to beliefs about the genesis of things i. e. if have medical condition for being fat = mitigated feelings. Only previous agreement in dsm (b/w mental illness and abnormal behaviour) = freud: dsm = economically driven. With natural selection work on average but there will always be examples of it that don"t work.
