Week 5

Question 1

What are emotions?

Answer 1

Neurophysical reactions to events, combined with expression, intention and cognitive changes

Question 2

What makes a mood different from an emotion?

Answer 2

A mood lasts longer and doesn’t need a trigger

Question 3

How did Paul Ekman look at emotions?

Answer 3

He wanted to know if they are universal, so he tested emotional recognition from pictures. He found 6 basic emotions

Question 4

What criticism did Paul Ekman receive?

Answer 4

Joy is the only positive emotion, which might explain why the recognition is so high
It’s a forced-choice paradigm which might skew the results too

Question 5

How does the dimensional approach look at emotions?

Answer 5

It displays emotions on a range between 2 axes (for example valence and potency), similar emotions will group together

Question 6

How does the dimensional approach look at emotions (definition)?

Answer 6

It looks at what emotions mean

Question 7

How does the componential approach look at emotions?

Answer 7

It looks at what an emotion entails. Is it just a feeling or also the chain-effects (like lump in throat or faster heart rate)?

Question 8

What is the biomedical model of health?

Answer 8

The idea that disease results from a specific cause

Question 9

What is the biopsychosocial model of health?

Answer 9

The idea that disease results from biological, social and psychological factors

Question 10

What is life expectancy?

Answer 10

How old on average a person is expected to live

Question 11

What influences life expentancy?

Answer 11

If you are a majority or minority group, wealth, biological sex

Question 12

What is infant mortality and why is it related to culture?

Answer 12

How many infants die in the first year of life, per 1000 live births. It is related to culture because it’s influenced by access to resources like nutrition, healthcare and treatment availability

Question 13

What is subjective well-being?

Answer 13

The perception of how well you are doing in life

Question 14

What are health disparities?

Answer 14

The different health outcomes different groups might face

Question 15

What is the immigrant paradox?

Answer 15

Being an immigrant increases stress and decreases access to healthcare, housing, jobs, food, etc. This is usually related to poorer healthoutcomes, but in actuality immigrants do better on health measures

Question 16

What might explain the immigrant paradox?

Answer 16

Immigrants might show healthier behavior, there is selectivity in which people become an immigrant, or immigrants have more social support

Question 17

What does the theort of climatic demands propose?

Answer 17

The degree to which the climate deviates from a comfortable 22C influences if a cultures values survival or self-expression more

Question 18

What is the rice vs wheat phenomenon?

Answer 18

A community that farms rice is fundamentally different from a community that farms wheat, even if they live in the same country. This is because farming rice needs more irrigation and coöperation, which stimulates collectivist values

Question 19

What is the best place to move to, according to the Climate Demand Theory?

Answer 19

Moving from a harsh climate to a milder climate

Question 20

What is the best place to move to, according to the Climate-fit perspective?

Answer 20

Moving to a climate that deviates the least from what you’re used to

Question 21

What is the difference between disease and illness?

Answer 21

Disease is a malfunctioning of biologic and psychophysiologic processes, and illness is the reaction to a disease or discomfort

Question 22

What is the holistic view of health?

Answer 22

A view that focuses on connections between the individual, their relationships, environment and the spiritual world

Question 23

What are the three indicators of health?

Answer 23

Life expectancy, infant mortality and subjective well-being

Question 24

What predicts subjective-wellbeing?

Answer 24

Material wealth, feeling respected, freedom and having social support

Question 25

What is cultural neuroscience?

Answer 25

The research field that combines neuroscience with cultural psychology, to try and understand the relationship between culture and behavior and thoughts

Question 26

How does health correlate with individualistic/collectivistic cultures?

Answer 26

Cultures that face more infectious diseases are more likely to be collectivistic, which may serve to reduce the spread of diseases from outgroups

Question 27

How is social support related to health?

Answer 27

Individuals with the fewest social ties have the highest mortality rates, and feeling lonely in general is linked to health problems

Question 28

How is body dissatisfaction related to culture?

Answer 28

Body dissatisfaction is more common in high SES and Western cultures

Question 29

How is suicide related to culture?

Answer 29

Cultures that condemn suicide report lower rates (might be biased), religious people report less suicidal thoughts and attempts and large-scale traumatic sociocultural changes also correlate with suicidal behavior

Question 30

Which cultural dimensions are negatively correlated with suicide rates?

Answer 30

Power distance, uncertainty avoidance and masculinity

Question 31

What is acculturation?

Answer 31

The process of change and adaptation as a result of continuous contact with a new culture