I. Psychological Determinants
- 1 October 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
- Vol. 51 (10) , 1541-1547
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.51.10.1541
Abstract
This discussion was originally part of a symposium summarizing current social science perspectives for health educators. Basic psychological processes of motivation, perception and learning each provide the point of departure for different psychological approaches; and the resultant differences in emphases and perspectives account for much of the apparent controversy among psychological theories. Regularized variability is often characteristic of the behavior of man, and such behavior can be ordered and understood with the help of the concepts of reference group and role theory. Study of normal discontinuities in social development may provide clues for strategic points of entry for health educators.Keywords
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