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Disgust Flashcards

1
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How many types of pathogens are there?

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2

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What are the 2 types of pathogens

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Micro-parasites
- Bacteria, protozoa, viruses
Macro-parasites
- Arthropods

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What happens if we get an infection?

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  • Energy balance is disturbed
  • The pathogen and the defence given against it both cause us damage
  • By having one pathogen we become more susceptible to others
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4
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How should we avoid diseases?

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We should detect them, then an emotional and cognitive response should be triggered, which will hopefully facilitate the avoidance of pathogens

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How should non-humans avoid infections from macro-parasites?

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  • Foraging away from feces
  • Grooming
  • Fly repelling behaviours, tail swishing
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How should non-humans avoid infections from micro-parasites?

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  • Grooming to prevent getting it in first place

- Conditioned food aversions

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What is a macro-parasite?

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Grow inside a host, but reproduce and infect outside of its host

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What is a micro-parasite?

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Grows and then stays, reproduces & infects inside its host

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What is disgust unique to?

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Humans

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How is disgust received/shown in other cultures?

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  • Disgust is shown similarly across different cultures/societies
  • It is recognised cross cultures
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How many models of disgust are there?

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What are the three models of disgust?

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  • Pathogen disgust
  • Sexual disgust
  • Moral disgust
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What is pathogen disgust?

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The avoidance of physical contact with sources of infectious disease

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What is moral disgust?

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Strategically endorsing rules that coordinate moral disapproval

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What is sexual disgust?

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Avoid sexual parents and behaviours that would jeopardise production

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16
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What are some ways of measuring disgust?

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  • Scales and questionnaire
  • Rating images
  • Measuring disgust facial expressions
17
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What is an omnivore?

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The eating of a wide variety of plants and animals

18
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Whats an advantage of being an omnivore?

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It offers a wide variety of sources for nutrition

19
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What is a disadvantage of being an omnivore?

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Greater change of ingesting harmful or poisonous substances

20
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What can disgust help do in relation to food?

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Create an internal or automatic code for good or bad foods

21
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When do we develop disgust?

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During the first 2 years of life

22
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What are the first 2 years of a child’s life sensitive towards and is hard to changer after?

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Food preferences

23
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Describe a study that shows disgust arising much later than 2 years old.

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Children didn’t reject drink dipped with an imitation poo or grasshopper until the age of 8

24
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Why don’t we engage in avoiding diseases all the time?

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  • Miss out on nutrition opportunities
  • Miss out on social/mating opportunities
  • Expend too much energy
25
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What do individuals who have been ill recently show more avoidance of?

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Disfigured individuals

26
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The more vulnerable you are to disease the higher..

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..your degree of disgust

27
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When women are on their ‘cycle’ what happens to their sights level?

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Goes up quite dramatically

28
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Disgust disgust does what to the bodies immune response?

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Increases

29
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Who are more disgust sensitive, men or women?

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Women, especially in the sexual domain

30
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Why is sex riskier for women?

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  • They have a greater surface are of mucous membranes, which would lead to more trauma
  • 3x more likely to contract chlamydia
31
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Are women less disgusted if they are aroused?

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  • Women either watched exciting, boring or pornographic film
  • Found that sexually aroused subjects completed 85% of tasks
  • Non-sexually aroused competed 66%
  • Women are less disgusted if they are aroused
32
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If women are disgusted what happens to their arousal?

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They are much less likely to be aroused

33
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What is moral dumfounding?

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When people have moral convictions that they are kist incapable of justifying but they nevertheless continue to hold

34
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What are the effects of disgust on moral judgements?

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  • Disgust is associated with more severe moral decisions

- Having a smelly room increased harsh judgement against gay men

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