Quantifiable characteristics of a population which researchers use to describe the health of a population
What is a health indicator?
An example of a universal disorder
What is Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)?
A specific belief or assumption about an individual based on one’s membership in a particular social group, regardless of individual characteristics
What is stereotype?
The degree to which a finding, measurement, or statistic consistently measures what it is supposed to
What is reliability?
Sam finds that when he speaks in front of his whole class his heart rate increases. This example highlights this component of emotion.
What is the physiological component of emotion?
The creators of the 1940s definition of health
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
A condition characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
What is mental illness?
The degree to which a finding, measurement, or statistic is accurate, or represents what it is supposed to
A common cause of infant mortality
What is premature birth?
The tendency to see out-groups as less human, or as having less humanity than in-groups
What is infrahumanization?
The use of non-numerical data to understand phenomena
What is qualitative research?
This concept is broken down into three main components: physiological, cognitive, and behavioral.
What is emotion?
Some psychologists argue could that this type of mental disorder could actually be a Western cultural concept of distress
A state or condition of similarity in conceptual meaning and empirical method between cultures that allows comparisons to be meaningful
What is equivalence?
Happiness, surprise, and anger are examples of...
What are the universally recognized emotional facial expressions?
Not crying in public and suppressing anger are examples of...
What are cultural display rules?