Culture and Cognition
The term _____ denotes all the mental processes one uses to transform sensory input into knowledge.
What is Cognition?
_____ are transient, biopsychosocial reactions to events that have consequences for our welfare, and that potentially require an immediate behavioral response.
What are Emotions?
A lexicon refers to the:
What are words contained in a language?
In China, the concept of health, based on Chinese religion and philosophy, focuses on the principles of yin and yang, which represent _____, respectively.
What are Negative and Positive Energies?
_____ refers to psychological disorders that encompass behavioral, cognitive, and emotional aspects of functioning.
What is Psychopathology?
In the context of human thinking, _____ is a method used to determine if one stimulus affects another.
What is Priming?
_____ proposed that humans had evolved from other, more primitive animals, such as apes and chimpanzees, and that our behaviors exist today because they were naturally selected through a process of evolutionary adaptation.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Semantics refers to:
What is what words mean?
According to Kleinman et al. (2006), views of health in many Western countries have been heavily influenced by what many call the _____ of health and disease.
What is Biomedical model?
In the _____ approach to defining abnormality, a behavior can be defined as abnormal because its occurrence is rare or infrequent.
What is Statistical?
_____ can be defined as hypothetical beliefs about the past that could have occurred in order to avoid or change a negative outcome
What is Counterfactual?
Studies of congenially blind individuals suggest that facial expressions of emotion are _____.
What is genetically encoded and not socially learned?
_____ refers to speech styles in certain languages that denote status differences among interactants.
What is Honorific Speech?
The concept of _____ refers to maintaining steady, stable functioning in our bodies when there are changes in the environment.
What is Homeostasis?
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) large-scale global studies of schizophrenia that started in the 1970s used the _____ to diagnose schizophrenia.
What is the Present State Examination (PSE)?
Scarr and Weinberg (1976) offered evidence for a(n) _____ basis of intelligence. They showed that African American and Interracial children adopted by Caucasian families scored above the IQ and school achievement means for whites.
What is Environmental?
According to the studies of nonhuman primates, facial displays in nonhuman primates described as grimaces are akin to the human emotions of _____.
What is Fear and Surprise?
The _____ suggests that speakers of different languages think differently and that they do so because of the differences in their languages.
What is Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
_____ is a growing field that incorporates medical and health care systems and practices that are not considered conventional medicine to treat illness and promote health.
What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine?
With regard to children, the _____ measure is used to assess both internalizing behaviors and externalizing behaviors.
What is the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)?
_____ refers to the recollection of specific events that took place at a particular time and place in the past.
What is a Episodic memory?
_____ are culturally prescribed rules that govern how universal emotions can be expressed.
What are Cultural display rules?
_____ is a Buddhist principle that emphasizes on close attention to the present moment, being aware of one’s senses, breathing, and thoughts without judgment or evaluation.
What is Mindfulness?
According to The World Factbook (2014), a comparison of 223 countries showed that the country with the longest average life expectancy is _____.
What is Monaco?
DAILY DOUBLE -- The main features of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
What is Hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattentiveness?