Unit 4 psycosocial

Question 1

Absolute poverty approach

Answer 1

Severe deprivation of basic human needs - food, clean water, shelter + education. Min income required meet basic necc life 1.90 dollars day

Question 2

Relative poverty approach

Answer 2

Peter townsend - lack resources obtain certain type diet, participate in activities + live in social conditions/amenities that customary to societies which they belong. resources so seriously below those average individual excluded form ordinary living patters.

Question 3

Capabilities poverty approach

Answer 3

Amartya Sen - shift focus from means of living to the actual opportunities a person has - focus what people able to do and be rather than on what they have.

Question 4

Structural violence

Answer 4

The way by which social and political framework imposes invisible barriers that perpetuate the suffering of certain groups of people

Disease follows pathways of vulnerability

Question 5

5 reasons health is political

Answer 5

Unequal distribution:
like all other life chances under a capitalist economic system, some social groups gain more of it than others.

Health determinants: healths social determinants (housing/ income) are amenable to political interventions a* dependent on political action or inaction

Organisation: Any purposeful activity to enhance health needs ‘the organised efforts of society’

Citizenship: the right to ‘a standard of living adequate for health and well-being’ (UN, 1948) is, or should be, an aspect of citizenship and of human rights.

Globalisation: We now face a complexity of worldwide crises – social, economic, ecological and ethical – that impact upon us all and contribute to ill health and avoidable deaths.

Question 6

Gestalt principles of perceptual organisation

Answer 6

Law of pragnanz - reality reduced to simplest form possible

Law of continuity- lines are seen following smoothest path

Law of proximity- objects near each other get grouped together

Law of similarity
similar items grouped together

Law of closure
Objects grouped together seen as whole

Question 7

Perception steps

Answer 7

Selection
Organisation
Interpretation

Question 8

Stages of learning

Answer 8

Sensorymotor
Pre operational - egocentric
Concrete operational - conservation
Formal operational