Skin and Stigma Flashcards

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What is a disease?

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A pathological condition of the body

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Are diseases objective or subjective?

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Objective

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3
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Can diseases be measured?

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Yes, think the extent of a disease, staging etc

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What is an illness?

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An experience of discomfort

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5
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Is an illness subjective or objective?

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Subjective

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6
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Can illness be measured?

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Not particularly as different from person to person

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7
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What makes people different?

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Demographic
Social
Personal
Circumstance
Geographical
Social patterns
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Is labelling always wrong?

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No, labelling is used in medical diagnoses’, such as ‘cancer patient’

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What is sensation?

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The ‘raw date’ that has an impact on the sensory organs

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10
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What is perception?

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The meaning of this raw data

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What is Gestalt’s psychology?

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The human eye sees objects in their entirety before perceiving individual parts

‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts’

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What is a stereotype and why are they not useful?

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They are overgeneralisations

They can be the attribution of one trait that leads to the inference of another

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13
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What is happiness?

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Idk,

JK its one of the six primary affects

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Are everyone’s displays of the primary affects the same?

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No, there is cultural variation

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15
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What are emotions?

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Cognitive interpretation as well as physiological arousal

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