Skin and Stigma

Question 1

what is illness behaviour?

Answer 1

the way symptoms are perceived and dealt with by different types of people

Question 2

what is the difference between disease and illness?

Answer 2

disease = pathological condition which can be measured and quantified
illness = experience of discomfort and suffering, very subjective and cant be quantified

Question 3

difference between labelling and stigma?

Answer 3

labelling = giving something a name, defining something by a feature (e.g medical diagnosis)
stigma = powerful form of labelling (e.g - "boy with the gross sores")

Question 4

give three reasons why humans label and stigmatise

Answer 4

humans are social animals and have both internal and external lives
humans are story telling animals so like to construct meaning in things in life
humans value roles so attach bundles of social expectations to a group within social structure (e.g - a particular characteristic)

Question 5

describe stigma

Answer 5

imputing a wide range of imperfections on the basis of the original one
perceiving someone’s defensiveness reactions as a reflection of their condition/disability

Question 6

how can a stigma affect those affected?

Answer 6

stigma can become part of the persons behaviour so they start acting like people expect them to act and become the stigma

Question 7

what is the difference between sensation and perception?

Answer 7

sensation = raw data that impacts the sense organs

perception provides meaning to this data so is creative and interpretive and can be affected by previous experience etc

Question 8

describe the concept of gestalt psychologyq

Answer 8

Arch (1946)
the human eye sees objects in their entirety before perceiving the individual parts and small details
due to innate programming as the whole is greater threat than sum of its parts

Question 9

what is a stereotype?

Answer 9

overgeneralisation

where in the absence of information we constitute a guess or make things up

Question 10

describe emotion development

Answer 10

fast reactions to something either unexpectedly positively or negatively valued
involve cognitive interpretation as well as physical arousal
………………

Question 11

what is an affect?

Answer 11

momentary feeling states

Question 12

what are the 6 primary affects?

Answer 12

happiness
surprise
fear
sadness
interest
disgust

Question 13

is there cultural variation in affect display?

Answer 13

yes

often in affect display rules