Week 3- Complexity in Human Behaviour

Question 1

What external factor influence how we behave? (4)

Answer 1

• Authority figure
• Power of a role
• Psychology of killing (the closer we are to someone the harder it is to shoot so in medicine if we have experience of a situation the more empathetic we can be)
• Learning from example

Question 2

What are the culutral influences on human behaviours (2)?

Answer 2

Gender

Ethnicity

Question 3

Define stereotyping

Answer 3

Set ideas about the characterisitcs of certain people/ groups

Question 4

What is unconscious bias?

Answer 4

Automatic assumptions we make about people without realising it

Question 5

What is hidden culture?

Answer 5

If not at the recieving end of a particular stigma we don’t tend to believe in it

Question 6

What is attribution bias?

Answer 6

Attribute our failings to environmental factors & failings of others to entrenched personality factors

Question 7

What is hidden curriculum?

Answer 7

Something comes across to pupils which may never be spoken

Question 8

What are the 4 external factors that help us deal with out feelings?

Answer 8

Adopting a role —> don’t need to think & feel comfortable

Submit to authority —> removes responsibly

Hiding behind bureaucracy —> provides clear processes that are fairly applies BUT don’t need to think of individuals

Blindness to prejudice —> think that everyone has the same advantages we have

Question 9

What is the sick role obligations and rights?

Why might this not work now?

Answer 9

• Exempt from duty
• Exemptf romblame
• Try to get better
• Seek & comply with Tx

NOW consider: Working whilst ill, smoking–> lung ca, chronic condition, people self managing

Question 10

What is the chornic care model

Answer 10

Return life to as normal as possible

Empowerment of the patient and HCP work in partnership to identify goals

Question 11

What is the complexity in behaviour model?

Answer 11

Question 12

What is Malan’s Triangle

Answer 12

Question 13

How can you maintain physical boundaries in clincal practice

Answer 13

• Offer chaperone
• Explain reasons for examination
• Don’t enagage in behaviour that could lead patients on
• Trust your cut
• Be polite & clear
• Awareness of factors that make it harder to speak up
• Seek help