Health & Culture
True or False:
Today, the average youth may have a less healthy and live a shorter lifespan than their parents.
What is, True
This approach to treatment argues that psychological disorders arises from the interaction genetic and physiological factors + past and present experiences + social-cultural influences
What is, The Biopsychosocial Approach (p. 166)
According to this theory, we categorize ourselves and form an identity based on the degree to which we identify as a member of a particular social group
What is, Social Identity Theory (p. 181)
What is, Morality?
Dr. Rosenhan and his students gained access into mental hospitals by faking this one symptom
What is, Hearing voices
This model views human health as the result of reciprocal influences of bodily, psychological, interpersonal and cultural influences over time and situation.
What is the Biopsychosocial model
Psychological disorders are persistently harmful thoughts, feelings, and actions that are
What are Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional
Many students dislike group projects because of this, the way one person expends less effort but still benefits from the effort of the group
What is, Social Loafing (p. 184)
This now famous dilemma was developed by Kohlberg to study moral development and how people rationalized their decisions
What is, The Heinz Dilemma (p. 195)?
This ethnic group has the longest life expectancy in the United States.
What is, Asian American women (p. 146)
Emotions are a response of the whole organism involving these three things
What are:
•physiological arousal
•expressive behaviors
•cognitive experience
These three categories for the three major classifications of disorders
What are Mood, Anxiety, and Psychotic disorders
This tendency to see members of an out-group as less human likely happened to the "guards" and the "prisoners" in the Stanford Prison Experiment.
What is, Infrahumanization (p. 182)
Shweber and Colleagues developed a cultural alternative to moral development known as
What is the Three Ethic Model of Morality (p. 197)
According to subjective well-being (SWB) thinking, these are the three types of happiness.
What are Life satisfaction, Positive feelings, and Low negative feelings? (P. 147-8)
According to the WHO, the main determinant of health include
What are:
social environment
economic environment
physical environment
individual characteristics and behavior
To be deviant is to be different, but those standards vary by
What are Context, Culture, and Time
These three psychologists conducted now famous studies conformity ___, obedience ___, and situational power ___.
Who are Solomon Asch (p. 189), Stanley Milgram (p. 190), and Philip Zimbardo
Kohlberg's Theory of moral development includes these three levels divided into six (6) stages.
What are pre-conventional, conventional, and post conventional (p. 196)?
Paul Eckman identified 7 universal emotions. What were they?
1.Anger
2.Disgust
3.Fear
4.Happiness
5.Sadness
6.Surprise
7.Contempt
This - defined as preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health - is intrinsically related to the unequal distribution of resources.
What is, Health disparities (p. 157)
These two disorders are universal in how they present
What is depression and schizophrenia
This form of prejudice includes negative feelings and beliefs about an out-group that are not socially acceptable; whereas, this form of prejudice is relatively automatic and unconscious preference for one's in-group
What are explicit prejudice; implicit prejudice (p. 187).
Kohlberg's theory has been criticized for neglecting to consider the role of emotions, the importance of relationships, the need for justice, and most notably,
What is only using White male subjects from the Midwestern United states (p. 197)
Proposed by Philipe Pinel, this model of treating psychological disorders called for moral treatment that included boosting patient morale by unchaining them, talking with them, and replacing filthy conditions with clean air and sunshine. It brought about terms like, mental illness, psychopathology, need for diagnosis, symptoms, cures, therapy, treatment, and psychiatric hospitals.
What is, The Medical Model