Lecture 1: Culture Vocab Flashcards

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Abnormal

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“Away from” a norm

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Norm

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The central tendency (Mean, median, mode) of a group or a population

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Group

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A set of individuals that interact eg. Our class

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Population

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A set of individuals that share at least one characteristic eg. People of Thai descent

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Descriptive norms

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Norms that describe the characteristics of a group or population

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Prescriptive norms

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Norms that prescribe behaviors or mental states eg. Waiting your turn in line, saying “thank you”, helping relatives

Things you’re expected to do in the society

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Biological norms

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Norms that characterize a biological population eg. Bilateral symmetry, having an internal skeleton, binocular vision, etc

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Cultural norms

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norms that characterize a cultural group or population eg. Greeting by shaking hands in the western countries vs bowing in Asia

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How are biological norms acquired?

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Through growth

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How are Cultural norms acquired?

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Through learning

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Culture what is it?

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Learned patterns of cognition and behavior that are characteristic of a group.

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Culture, what’s it made up of?

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Normative group beliefs, values, attitudes, practices, skills, rituals, artifacts, constructed niches

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Dual inheritance theory

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Where humans inherit both genetic and cultural information from their ancestors.

And these two forms of inheritance interact!

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Examples of dual inheritance

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Lactase persistence (biological property) resulting from dairy farming (a cultural practice)

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Why do cultural norms exist and persist?

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  1. Biological factors
  2. Cultural factors
  3. Cultural norm enforcement
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Biological factors (why does it make cultural norms exist/persist?)

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Humans have an inherent instinct to imitate —> facilitates social learning which is learning from others!

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Cultural factors (why does it help norms exist/persist?)

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Norms are TRANSMITTED via culture and also ENFORCED via culture

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Cultural norms enforcement

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Behavior that punishes people who violate cultural norms. eg. Cheaters in games, law enforcement

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Why might norm enforcement be beneficial?

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  1. Reduces within-group conflict
  2. Promotes group-cohesion
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Group cohesion

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The extent to which a group successfully COMMUNICATES and COOPERATES (Shared cognition and shared behaviors)

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What’s the benefit of group cohesion?

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It promote the achievement of group goals eg.research teams, ancestors in the ancient times cooperate or die

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Why is norm enforcement harmful sometimes?

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It punishes people for being DIFFERENT! Eg. 1952 sexual deviation in the DSM, and Gender Identity Disorder

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Do clinicians have a right to diagnosis and treatment?

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Not a right but a RESPONSIBILITY!

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Why should we diagnose at all?

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There is real variability in mental health problems so diagnoses can give
1. Possible causes
2. Possible treatments!

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Psychopathology (3)
The investigation of the: SYMPTOMS CAUSES TREATMENT of human mental disorders
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Mental disorder
Disturbance to the basic mental processes that: control adaptive actions —> resulting in adaptive deficits
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Examples of adaptive deficits (6)
1. Perception 2. Cognition 3. Emotion 4. Motivation 5. Behavior 6. Physiological regulation
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Basic mental processes
Mental processes that are species-typical and superordinate
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Examples of basic mental processes (4)
1. Perception 2. Cognition 3. Emotion 4. Motivation
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What things does Perception consist of? (5)
1. Vision 2. Audition 3. Olfaction 4. Gestation 5. Haptic perception (touch)
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What does cognition consist of? (10) List as many as you can!
1. Attention 2. Learning 3. Memory 4. Thought 5. Categorization 6. Inference 7. Attribution 8. Decision making 9. Problem solving 10. Language
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Emotion
Short duration, largely exogenous feeling states
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Examples of exogenous feeling states (6)
1. Happiness 2. Sadness 3. Fear 4. Anger 5. Disgust 6. Surprise
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Mood
Long duration, largely endogenous feeling states
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Examples of Endogenous feeling states (4)
1. Euphoria 2. Euthymia 3. Dysthymia 4. Dysphoria
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Affect
Term for observable signs of mood
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Things that we use motivation for (11) List as many as you can!
1. Hunger 2. Thirst 3. Safety 4. Affiliation 5. Exploration 6. Sex 7. Pair bonding 8. Care seeking 9. Care giving 10. Sex 11. Status
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Behavior, especially Action (i.e goal directed behavior) is present as disordered action initiation in what kind of mental disorders? (4)
1. Schizophrenia 2. Bipolar disorder 3. Major depressive disorder 4. Anxiety disorders
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Physiological regulation is the regulation of? (6)
1. Energy 2. Movement 3. Appetite 4. Arousal 5. Wakefulness 6. Sexual interest
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Adaptive deficit
The absence or failure of an adaptation
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Adaptation
A characteristics that was: 1. Produced by selection processes, and that 2. Produces beneficial effects for the organisms that possess it
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Whats the difference between facts and values?
Facts are real and values are “good”
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What factors help us determine what we experience as good (i.e what we value?)
A combo of biological factors and cultural factors!
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For animals (broad) value:
1. Water 2. Warmth 3. Food 4. Safety
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Social animals value:
Affiliation
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Sexually reproducing animals value:
SEX
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Members of social hierarchies value:
STATUS
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Animals with protracted (Lasting for a long time) development value:
Committed relationships
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Individualistic cultural animals value:
Developing personal identity etc.
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Collectivist cultural animals value:
Serving your family etc.