Erikson's - Causes of Illness (Midterm) Flashcards
The most distinctive feature of human beings
Cognitive and language abilties
The process of knowing
Cognition
What are the two components of attention, describe.
Decrement of attention
Recovery of attention
Factors that can boost brain development
Educational toys Playmates Learning opprtunities Good nutrition Parent counseling
The harmony of human mind
Language
Component of language
Joining together of units of sounds to form words
Phonology
System of meaning associated with words
Semantics
Rules for joining words to form phrases and sentences
Syntax
Vital contributionsnof language to human
For communication
Facilitate learning
Functions of emotions
👌🏻Adaptive processes that enhance survival
👎🏻Influence the mental operationd in information processing
🖕🏻Asist in fitting our actions to the developing actions of others
Refres to the practice whereby an inexperienced person relies to a experienced person’s interpretation
Social referencing
Refers to the relatively consistent, basic disposition inherent in people that underlie or modulate of their behavior
Temperament
Affetional bond that one forms for another and that endures across time and space
Attachment
A measure of some event, disease or condition in relation to a unit of population aling with some specification of time
Rate
Imporatance of rate
Oppotunity for comparison
Commonly used rates, expound
Death rates
Birth rate
Morbidity rates
3 forms you can express rates
Crude rate
Adjusted rate
Specific rate
The average number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age
Life expectancy
YPLL
Years of potential life lost
DALY
Disability adjusted life years
Risk factors of illness
Inherited
Environmental
Behavioral influences
Two categories of causes of illness
Modifiable-life stysle, smoking and poor dietary habits
Non modifiable- age, sex, inherited genes
Disease can be
Communicable
Non communicable
A model that is used to explain the spread of communicable disease from kne host to another
Chain of infection