Module 4 Physical Self Flashcards
(17 cards)
who said “Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.”
Zoe Kravitz
Two most-debated views about beauty
1.Beauty is objective
2. Beauty is subjective
He asked whether things were beautiful because it gave delight, or whether it gave delight because it was beautiful.
St. Augustine
He connected beauty as a response to love and desire. He asserted that beauty exists in the realm of Forms, and that objects are found beautiful because they are a reflection of the idea of beauty that already exist in the realm of forms.
Plato
asserted that the chief forms of beauty are order, symmetry, and definiteness
Aristotle
He noted that beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them, and each mind
perceives a different beauty
David Hume
He said that the judgment of taste is therefore not as judgment of cognition, and is consequently not logical but aesthetical
Immanuel Kant
He said that the perception of beauty does depend on the external sense of sight; however, internal sense of beauty,
operates as an internal or reflect sense
Francis Hutcheson
refers to error in reasoning, evaluating, remembering or any other mental process.
Cognitive Bias
also known as physical attractiveness stereotype and the“what is beautiful is good” principle) refers to the tendency of people to rate attractive individuals more as compared to those less attractive.
Halo effect
an attractive man is generally one
with relatively prominent cheekbone
and eyebrow ridges and relatively
long lower face.
female raters
women who are attractive
have prominent cheekbone,
large eyes, small nose, a taller
forehead, smooth skin and are
overall young or even childlike
appearance
male raters
can either have a positive or a negative influence on body image and on self-esteem.
Cultural traditions
is defined as how one thinks and feels toward one’s body.
Body image
was coined by William James to refer to the number of successes a person achieves divided by the number of failures that
occurred.
Self esteem
defined self esteem in terms of an attitude
concerning one’s worth as a person
Behavioral scientists
happens when your looks do not match your
beauty standards
Self image problem
