2: Normality Flashcards
A person’s behavior is determined by:
External and internal forces
A collection of values, beliefs and behaviors handed down from one generation to another.
Culture
Give examples of external forces.
Culture
Social status
Economic structures
Collective organization of behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, beliefs and customs.
Culture
Anything that is used to represent any other thing.
Symbol
True or false: culture is symbolic.
TRUE
Components/elements of culture:
Symbols Values Beliefs Traditions Customs Technology Language
Cultural practices that are common to an identifiable group extending beyond the boundaries of one culture.
International culture
Identifiable cultural patterns existing within a larger culture.
Subcultures
Ways in which humans think, feel and process information.
Psychological universals
Give examples of social universals:
Incest taboos
Life in groups
Families
Food sharing
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?
Biological universals
Held commonly by more than one culture, but not by universal nuclear family
Cultural generality
Unique to one culture and is of fundamental importance to the population
Cultural particularity
Culture influences what psychological factors?
Internal processes
Interpersonal processes
Interpersonal processes pertains to:
Affiliation
Aggression
Group behavior
Give examples of internal processes.
Self
Person perception
Social cognition
True or false: Culture influences our concept of self.
TRUE
Culture affects health and illness through what?
By affecting nature and quality of help-seeking behavior
The following differ accdg to culture:
- importance of individual vs group
- cause of psychopathology
- symptoms
T or F: Culture affects treatment of illnesses.
TRUE
It is the pattern of behavior or personality traits that are typical or that conform to a standard that is acceptable.
Normality
The opposite of health:
Illness
It is the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.
Health
True or false: Health is just the absence of disease or infirmity.
FALSE
What is the goal of treatment? (absence-of-pathology perspective)
To free the person from the presence of symptoms and to help persin attain reasonable functioning.
True or false: Average is not the same as healthy. (Limitation)
TRUE (statistical perspective)
In what perspective is health the state of ideal functioning?
Utopia perspective
Health is a condition not deemed sufficiently troublesome to seek treatment for it is not pathological.
Pragmatic perspective
Mental health is an “ideal fiction” (therefore a limitation) according to:
Sigmund Freud (utopia perspective)
The perspective that emphasized on psychometric models of psychopathology in psychology and medical diagnosis and classifications.
Statistical perspective
Health is the average level of functioning accdg to what perspective?
Statistical perspective
Emphasized in humanistic and psychoanalytic models of treatment.
Utopia perspective
Perspective that defines health as a functional interplay of interacting systems that operate in relative adaptivity over time.
Systems perspective
Systems perspective levels of adaptation are the ff:
Biological Cognitive Affective Interpersonal Occupational Familial
It emphasizes multiple processes and levels of adaptation that need ti be studied longitudinally.
Systems perspective
A condition is a disorder is relative to society & citizens w/in the society.
Pragmatic perspective
Mental disorder is self-serving & relative to complaints of local patients and interests of local clinicians.
Limitation of pragmatic perspective
Biological perspective emphasizes this model.
Absence-of-pathology perspective
The standard or optimal pattern of neurochemical structure and function is ambiguous and arbitrary.
Absence-of-pathology perspective
A biological etiology or pathology may not always be present.
Absence-of-pathology perspective
Successful performance of mental functions results in:
Productive activities
Fulfilling relationship w/ others
Ability to adapt to changes
Cope with adversities
True or False: We value individuality in the Filipino culture.
TRUE
True or false: Culture influences our concept of self.
TRUE
True or False: Culture is the same all over the world.
FALSE
Example of global culture.
Communications, internet
What characteristic of culture changes in one aspect and will likely generate changes in other aspects?
Culture is integrated (system)
Culture is adaptive and maladaptive. The adaptive strategy is employed by:
Hominids
Culture is possibly maladaptive why?
Because it is man-made
Culture strongly influences mental health how?
By affecting concept of normality and variables that affect psychological development.
