Skin and Stigma Flashcards
What is a disease?
A pathological condition of the body
Are diseases objective or subjective?
Objective
Can diseases be measured?
Yes, think the extent of a disease, staging etc
What is an illness?
An experience of discomfort
Is an illness subjective or objective?
Subjective
Can illness be measured?
Not particularly as different from person to person
What makes people different?
Demographic Social Personal Circumstance Geographical Social patterns
Is labelling always wrong?
No, labelling is used in medical diagnoses’, such as ‘cancer patient’
What is sensation?
The ‘raw date’ that has an impact on the sensory organs
What is perception?
The meaning of this raw data
What is Gestalt’s psychology?
The human eye sees objects in their entirety before perceiving individual parts
‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts’
What is a stereotype and why are they not useful?
They are overgeneralisations
They can be the attribution of one trait that leads to the inference of another
What is happiness?
Idk,
JK its one of the six primary affects
Are everyone’s displays of the primary affects the same?
No, there is cultural variation
What are emotions?
Cognitive interpretation as well as physiological arousal
