Behavior Science (Social Psycology, Culture And Relationship On Mental Health)

Question 1

What is Behavioral Science?

Answer 1

A branch of science that deals primarily with human action. It often seeks to generalize and understand how humans behave in society

Question 2

What are the four domains of the holistic approach to life?

Answer 2

Biological-Psychological-Social-Spiritual

Question 3

What is the etymology of psychology?

Answer 3

Psyche:soul
Logy:study

Question 4

What is the definition of psychology?

Answer 4

• The study of the mind and behavior
• The way a person or group thinks

Question 5

How does psychology affects us?

Answer 5

• understanding our mind (cognition), our heart (emotion) and behavior can make us wiser
• understanding how humans behavior in society will help human progress

Question 6

What is the definition of Cognition?

Answer 6

• the act or process of knowing
• knowledge

Question 7

What is the spiritual heart?

Answer 7

• Is the receptacle for faith, and it receives guidance from god
• Is related to the brain’s cognitive and emotive functions
• discerns fact from fallacy and makes final decision

Question 8

What are the levels of spiritual heart?

Answer 8

• Al-Qalb is the changing heart that flips, turns and changes
• Al-Fu’ad is the burning heart that kindles and motivates
• Al-Lub is the discerning heart, that discerns and differentiates

Question 9

What is the mind?

Answer 9

• the faculty of knowing and thinking, and it receives guidance from god
• related to the brain’s cognitive and emotive functions
• the processor of thoughts and ideas, differentiating truth from falsehood

Question 10

What is social psychology?

Answer 10

The scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by actual, imagined or implied presence of others

Question 11

What is Social cognitive (cognition) theory

Answer 11

The theory is that portions of an individuals knowledge acquisition can be directly related to observing others within the context of social interactions, experiences, and outside media influence.

Question 12

What is culture?

Answer 12

The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively

Question 13

What is spirituality?

Answer 13

• Includes a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves
• involves a search for meaning in life
• is a universal human experience that touches us all

Question 14

How does culture and cognition relate to each other?

Answer 14

• different cultures give rise to different collective, culturally shared ways of constructing, defining and extracting meaning from situations
• similar situations may therefore carry different meaning in different cultures

Question 15

How does individuals and cognition relate to each other?

Answer 15

• different individuals may view though lenses of different knowledge structures, goals and feelings
• individuals follow the dictates of their respective cultures, fulfilling the culturally dictated patterns of thought, feeling and behavior, thus reinforcing their cultures
• As you think and act in accordance with your culture, you support and reproduce it.

Question 16

What is spiritual and religious person?

Answer 16

• A religious person professes a religion which is organized and structured
• A religious person is a spiritual person because religion involves spiritual meanings
• a religious person who fails to be noble in his or her character lacks true spirituality
• A spiritual person is not necessarily religious if he or she does not profess any religion