Midterm 2 Material Flashcards
Explain how culture determines our worldview:
Culture determines what we are exposed to, which builds our associative memory and determines our intuitive valuations.
It also shapes our implicit model of the world subconsciously
and our explicit model of the world, consciously and subconsciously
Explain systems 1 and 2 and how what we are exposed to influences their interplay:
System 1 is a fast acting intuitive system that creates connections based on associations and emotions
System 2 is a consciously operated system that takes in information from system 1 and makes corrections based on logical reasoning.
EX: what do cows drink?
- System 1 retrieves milk based on associations to drinks and cows
- System 2 corrects the error and uses logical reasoning to determine that the correct answer is water
Evidence is really important for system 2’s functioning, that’s why what we’re exposed to influences our worldviews
- EX: childbirth in media is seen to be extremely stressful. System 1 picks up on those associations and system 2 can cite plenty of examples where it is seen to be
Explain availability heuristic and how it interacts with system 2? Also explain what Processing fluency is I don’t want this to be it’s own card
The more examples of something that can be recalled, the more frequently system 2 believes said example exists in the world.
Processing Fluency: The subjective ease at which we process information. Can influence judgements.
If something is easy to process, it is easier to recall it as having happened.
What are some problems with availability heuristics?
they can be misleading when our associative memory is biased
this is an issue when many things such as culture, expectations and desires influence availability heuristics
Explain how heuristics play a role in our interpretations of danger? Why is this important for this course?
in events where the odds of dying are less than 1/100, people usually consider this too small to be true. In this range of danger, judgements are often determined through cultural influences and emotional associations
The odds of dying when being born or giving birth are extremely low (roughly 1/1000 and 1/10,000 respectively).
How does the Council of International Organizations of Medical Sciences describe the odds of dying when being born or giving birth?
Rare and Very Rare, respectively
What are our judgements about what is safe or dangerous based/influenced by?
- Not based on statistical probabilities
- Culturally influenced
- Based on associative memory and heuristics
What is culturally motivated reasoning? What is not included in culturally dominant views of CB?
We are motivated to attribute positive outcomes to dominant cultural values and negative outcomes to non-dominant cultural values
intervention during CB is a culturally dominant value
Culturally dominant views of CB tend to avoid the biological reality of it, the dependency of newborns on their mothers and the emotionality of it.
Explain the two types of explanation motives:
Accuracy Motives:
- Priority on accurate, thorough explanations
- Leads to deeper information processing, more cognitive effort and the use of more complex thinking strategies
Directional Motives:
- Particular, directional explanations
- Leads us to try to justify a conclusion in a rational, convincing manner, undertake a biased memory search for particular beliefs and rules and access only a subset of our relevant knowledge.
Explain the graph showing the length of human pregnancy:
Very shallow increases in non-elective delivery probability until about 270 days, in which an exponential increase begins to happen. This is also where the two paths for multiparous and nulliparous women diverge, with the probability of delivery for multiparous women being slightly higher in less days. The paths for both graphs shows a plateau at around 290 days.
Define “due date”, “term pregnancy” and “pre/post-term”:
Due Date:
- 280 days, or 40 weeks from the first day of the last menstrual period.
Term Pregnancy:
- Between 37 and 42 weeks of pregnancy
Pre: before 37 weeks
Post: after 42 weeks
Explain membrane sweeping, as well as its pros and cons:
The goal of membrane sweeping is cause the release of endogenous prostaglandins from the adjacent membranes and cervix.
Offered at 38-41 weeks
(prostaglandins are hormone-like lipid compounds that are known
to play a partial role in the initiation of labor)
PROS:
- may decrease the length of pregnancy by 1-4 days on average
- May reduce the rate of formal induction
* !/8 membrane sweeps avoid formal induction*
CONS;
- Can be very painful (7/10)
- Can cause bleeding or irregular contractions
- 1/10 chance of rupturing the amniotic sac, which then leads to formal induction
- Sometimes done without consent during exams at the end of pregnancy
How many women have their labor induced manually?
Around 20-30%
Explain Formal Induction and it’s most common methods:
It is offered at 41+0 to 42+0 weeks because present evidence shows a decrease in perinatal mortality with induction.
- Performed at 41 weeks + 3 days of pregnancy if labor hasn’t started on it’s own
- Artificial Oxytocin (Pitocin), IV drip is the most common and currently recommended practice
- Continuous administration throughout and after delivery
Prostaglandins (vaginal misoprostol) are more effective in bringing about V. delivery within 24 hours, but is more likely to cause uterine hyperstimulation
Mechanical methods such as balloon catheters and amniotomy have a reduced likelihood of uterine hyperstimulation compared to prostaglandins, but have a higher chance of maternal and neonatal infections compared to prostaglandins and artificial oxytocin
Explain how the risk of induction after 41 weeks is overestimated:
The risk of still birth starting at week 36 is very small and increases every week slightly (0.36% at week 36, 2.5% at week 42)
around 500 unnecessary inductions are performed to avoid one stillbirth.
Explain the precautionary and anti-cautionary principles and the prevalence of the anti-cautionary principle:
Pre-Cautionary: Assumed unsafe until proven otherwise
Anti-Cautionary: Assumed safe until proven otherwise
- linked to medical reversals and is not linked to medicine and obstetrics
