BSS Flashcards
(56 cards)
what is appraisal?
process of evaulating a stimulus to determine its level of stress
Define emotion focused coping…
reducing distress by using strategies such as avoidance, emotional support etc
define problem focused coping…
concentrates on dealing with the problem, and hence dealing with the stress. Situations are managed proactively with information
according to the GMC, how is end of life care defined?
when a patient is likely to die within the next 12 months
according to the suicide act, 1961, what is commiting suicide legal in the UK?
Suicide is legal
Assisting suicide is illegal
out of the following documents, which are legally binding?
advanced decision
advanced statement
lasting power of attorney
advanced decision
lasting power of attorney
what is sensation?
the input about the physical world obtained by sensory receptors
what is perception?
how the brain processes and organises sensory information
what is the absolute threshold of sensation?
minimum amount of stimulus that must be present to detect said stimulus 50% of the time
what is subliminal messaging?
any stimulus that is below the absolute threshold stimulus. Information is received to the cortex, but not consciously recognised
what is sensory adaptation?
when stimuli aren’t perceived because they have been constant for a long period of time
what is bottom-up processing?
perceptions built from sensory input
what is top-down processing?
the interpretation of sensation is effected by available knowledge, context, thoughts and emotions
how does attention relate to sensation?
Attention relates to what is sensed (not perceived)
what is inattentional blindness?
failure to notice something that is visible due to a lack of attention
what is the definition of stigma? (2 definitions)
‘an attribute that is discrediting within a particular interaction’
‘an undesirable characteristic in a particular context’
what are the two types of stigma?
felt stigma
enacted stigma
what is enacted stigma?
societal reactions that produce direct discrimination
what is felt stigma?
caused by the imagined social reaction due to stigma that exists
what legislative act deals with stigmatisation?
UK equalities act, 2010
what are the three stages of memory?
encoding
storage
retrieval
what is recall?
reproduction of information to which one has been previously exposed, without cues
what is recognition?
uses a stimulus to retrieve information that has been previously learnt
what is a serial position curve? Who put forward this theory?
concept that suggests things at the start and end of a list will always be remembered better than those of the middle (a.k.a the primary and recency effect)
Ebinghaus 1880’s
