Behavioural Science Flashcards
Describe 4 main types of stigma
Discredited/Discreditable: In discredited stigma, an individual; assumes that their difference is already known about or is evident. In discreditable stigma, the person assumes that their stigma is neither known about by those present nor immediately perceivable by them
Felt:Felt stigma (internal stigma or self-stigmatisation) refers to the shame and expectation of discrimination that prevents people from talking about their experiences and stops them seeking help
Enacted: Enacted stigma (external stigma, discrimination) refers to the experience of unfair treatment by others
Courtesy: This is stigma not felt directly. Often a carer or relative of a stigmatised individual may feel shame or be treated differently
What are the top 5 in Holes and Rahe Stress scale?
- Death of spouse
- Divorce
- Marital separation
- Jail time
- Death of close family member
What are the different types of power?
Who came up with it?
French and Raven came up with it.
Referent- held by those with charisma/ppl gravitate towards
Coercive- power of he who can apply negative influences e.g. demotion
Reward- power of those with power to reward
Legitimate- that of someone in higher position
Expert- power of he with specialist knowledge
What were the primary emotions given by Ekman?
Happy Anger Disgust Surprise Ssadness Fear
Classical Conditioning? Who by?
Operant conditioning? Who by?
Reaction to stimuli. Pavlov.
Reaction to environemnt/as a result of behaviour. Skinner.
Whose law explains the process observed in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and the saying goes that ‘you lose first what you learn last’.
And the law of forgetting?
Ribot
Jost- This law states that that if 2 memories are of the same strength but different ages, the older will decay more slowly than the younger.
Useful test for assessment of premorbid intellignece?
National Adult Reading Test (NART)
Social Classification System
Social class 0 - Unemployed or student Social class I - Professional Social class II - Intermediate Social class III - Skilled, manual, or clerical Social class IV - Semi-skilled Social class V - Unskilled
What is Fundamental attribution error?
E.g. Assuming a man who drinks excessively is weak and neglecting to recognise that he had a difficult experience in the war and is struggling to come to terms with it.
Reciprocal determinism meaning?
WHo came up with it?
Bandura: he meant that people’s behaviour is influenced by their environment but also that their behaviour influences their environment.
Part of the Social Leanrign Theory, which is the third aggression theory.
Self-serving bias
The term ‘self-serving bias’ relates to the human tendency of to attribute success to internal factors but failure to external ones.
