Presentations Flashcards
Navajo Nation
- poor children are 7% more likely to experience child abuse and neglect
- twice as likely to experience violent crimes and death
- Navajo Nation has one of the highest number of reports of child abuse out of all Native American Tribes
- The rate of Arizona children living in foster care skyrocketed 90% between 2000 and 2013
Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia is a brain disease with measurable structural and functional abnormalities in the brain
- It is NOT a purely genetic disease, and other biological factors play a role
- The closer the degree of relatives you are with someone with schizophrenia, the more likely you are to also have (identical twins have a 50% chance of both having it)
Infant Attachment
- Collectivism cultures emphasize proximity-seeking
- Individualism cultures promote infant exploration
- Factors that influence infant attachment
- caregiver level of stress
- demographic risk factors (single parent, economic)
- abusive home
- child’s characteristics: nature vs nurture
- Japanese and Korean children do not display avoidant detachment
Sexual Preferences
- American women prefer arms/penis
- European women prefer butt
- American and European men prefer chest
Death Penalty
1930’s causes: stock market crash, 2nd New Deal
Present: feminist culture, low unemployment rate
Most common form of death penalty: lethal injection
Year with highest death sentence: 1935
-overtime there has been a gradual shift to more time elapsed after sentence to actual exucution
Problem Solving
Americans vs. East Asians
-Americans: analytic thinking style, Authoritative parenting, 180 days spent in school, 10% of school day spent on math, wished for less school and homework
-East Asians: holistic thinking style, authoritarian parenting, 240 days spent in school, 80% of school day spent on math, wished for academic success and to go to college
Ideal Body Image
USA: “8 minute abs”, thigh gap
UK: long, lean, and tanned
Arranged Marriages
- arranged marriages are less common in cultures where nuclear family ties are the focus
- global divorce rate for arranged marriages is significantly lower than love marriages
- 55% of marriages that occur in the world today are arranged
- 74% of young people in India prefer arranged marriages to love marriages
Back Pain
- 1 in 10 people suffer from low back pain worldwide
- Low back pain is leading cause of disability in the world
- physicians influence is a big part of recovery for immigrants but not for natives
Depression and Anxiety
- UK: 1/5 of adults experience depression or anxiety at least once in their lifetime
- USA: depression and anxiety is more prevalent in women than in men
- most successful treatment of depression and anxiety is a combination of CBT and medication, success rate is 75-90%
Stress
- immune function is lowest during chronic stress and highest during moderately prolonged stress
- stress leads to increased risk of disease
- active coping is the most frequently used coping strategy used among both male and female teens
Body Modification (piercings and tattoos)
- Ice Man reseals that tattooing has been around for centuries
- Tattoos, piercings, and body markings show individuality, as well as group cooperation and ritualistic customs and events
- 24% of American Adults are tattooed and have 1-7 piercings
Mind-Altering Drugs
Mind-Altering Drug: any substance that affects mental processes, such as cognition and affect, and can induce shifts in perception, feeling, and thought
US: drugs used more for recreation, relaxation, and coping , alcohol and nicotine are most prevalent
Peru: ceremonial and spiritual use, use hallucinogens to cleanse, heal, communicate with spirits, spiritual awakening, find lost items, tribal initiation
Ideal Female Body
America vs. Mauritania
Mauritania: over 20% of women report force feeding, eat up to 16,000 cals a day
America: 20 million women and 10 million men suffer from significant eating disorders at some point in life
**although Mauritania experiences more force feeding, the US still experiences much more obesity and overweight problems with society
BED (Binge Eating Disorder)
- 1 in 35 Americans suffer from BED
- 1 out of 3 BED patients are also diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes
- people underestimate their portion sizes up to 25%
- women are more likely to be diagnosed with BED before men
- Out of 100 African American women surveyed, 2% ID’d as being eating disordered and 23% ID’d as problematic due to their caucasian peer influences
