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2: Normality Flashcards

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A person’s behavior is determined by:

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External and internal forces

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A collection of values, beliefs and behaviors handed down from one generation to another.

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Culture

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Give examples of external forces.

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Culture
Social status
Economic structures

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Collective organization of behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, beliefs and customs.

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Culture

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Anything that is used to represent any other thing.

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Symbol

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True or false: culture is symbolic.

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TRUE

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Components/elements of culture:

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Symbols
Values
Beliefs
Traditions
Customs
Technology
Language
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Cultural practices that are common to an identifiable group extending beyond the boundaries of one culture.

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International culture

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Identifiable cultural patterns existing within a larger culture.

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Subcultures

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9
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Ways in which humans think, feel and process information.

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Psychological universals

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Give examples of social universals:

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Incest taboos
Life in groups
Families
Food sharing

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Long period of infant dependency, year-round sexuality and the complex brain that enables us to use symbols, languages & tools are examples of what cultural universality?

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Biological universals

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12
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Held commonly by more than one culture, but not by universal nuclear family

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Cultural generality

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13
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Unique to one culture and is of fundamental importance to the population

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Cultural particularity

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14
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Culture influences what psychological factors?

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Internal processes

Interpersonal processes

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Interpersonal processes pertains to:

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Affiliation
Aggression
Group behavior

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16
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Give examples of internal processes.

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Self
Person perception
Social cognition

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True or false: Culture influences our concept of self.

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TRUE

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18
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Culture affects health and illness through what?

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By affecting nature and quality of help-seeking behavior

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19
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The following differ accdg to culture:

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  • importance of individual vs group
  • cause of psychopathology
  • symptoms
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20
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T or F: Culture affects treatment of illnesses.

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TRUE

21
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It is the pattern of behavior or personality traits that are typical or that conform to a standard that is acceptable.

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Normality

22
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The opposite of health:

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Illness

23
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It is the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.

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Health

24
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True or false: Health is just the absence of disease or infirmity.

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FALSE

25
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What is the goal of treatment? (absence-of-pathology perspective)

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To free the person from the presence of symptoms and to help persin attain reasonable functioning.

26
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True or false: Average is not the same as healthy. (Limitation)

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TRUE (statistical perspective)

27
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In what perspective is health the state of ideal functioning?

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Utopia perspective

28
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Health is a condition not deemed sufficiently troublesome to seek treatment for it is not pathological.

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Pragmatic perspective

29
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Mental health is an “ideal fiction” (therefore a limitation) according to:

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Sigmund Freud (utopia perspective)

30
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The perspective that emphasized on psychometric models of psychopathology in psychology and medical diagnosis and classifications.

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Statistical perspective

31
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Health is the average level of functioning accdg to what perspective?

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Statistical perspective

32
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Emphasized in humanistic and psychoanalytic models of treatment.

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Utopia perspective

33
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Perspective that defines health as a functional interplay of interacting systems that operate in relative adaptivity over time.

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Systems perspective

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Systems perspective levels of adaptation are the ff:

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Biological
Cognitive
Affective
Interpersonal
Occupational
Familial
35
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It emphasizes multiple processes and levels of adaptation that need ti be studied longitudinally.

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Systems perspective

36
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A condition is a disorder is relative to society & citizens w/in the society.

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Pragmatic perspective

37
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Mental disorder is self-serving & relative to complaints of local patients and interests of local clinicians.

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Limitation of pragmatic perspective

38
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Biological perspective emphasizes this model.

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Absence-of-pathology perspective

39
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The standard or optimal pattern of neurochemical structure and function is ambiguous and arbitrary.

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Absence-of-pathology perspective

40
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A biological etiology or pathology may not always be present.

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Absence-of-pathology perspective

41
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Successful performance of mental functions results in:

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Productive activities
Fulfilling relationship w/ others
Ability to adapt to changes
Cope with adversities

42
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True or False: We value individuality in the Filipino culture.

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TRUE

43
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True or false: Culture influences our concept of self.

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TRUE

44
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True or False: Culture is the same all over the world.

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FALSE

45
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Example of global culture.

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Communications, internet

46
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What characteristic of culture changes in one aspect and will likely generate changes in other aspects?

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Culture is integrated (system)

47
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Culture is adaptive and maladaptive. The adaptive strategy is employed by:

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Hominids

48
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Culture is possibly maladaptive why?

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Because it is man-made

49
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Culture strongly influences mental health how?

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By affecting concept of normality and variables that affect psychological development.

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