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Introduction To Behavioral Science: Col Zulfiquer Ahmed Amin Armed Forces Medical Institute (AFMI)
Introduction To Behavioral Science: Col Zulfiquer Ahmed Amin Armed Forces Medical Institute (AFMI)
• Inherited characteristics
• Learned characteristics
Learned characteristic
Perception is a way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting
something; a mental impression.
Perception
• Is a discipline
Psychology • Emphasizes human mental process
• Gives a ‘I’ feeling
• Individual demands empirical evidence
• Is a discipline
• Emphasizes human society
Sociology • Gives a ‘we’ feeling
• Society demands empirical evidence that
links sociological ideas to live experience
• Is a discipline
• Emphasizes human society, & association
Anthropology in the past
• Empirical evidence that links with
documents, tools, fossil…
Topic domains for the behaviour science in
medical teaching:
2. Patient behavior
-Aetiology of illness,
-Presentation of illnesses,
Concepts of
Psychology Decision
process
Communication
Concepts of Concepts of strategies
Sociology Anthropology
Health related Behaviors
•Health behavior is a behavior that affects health: