UNDS MIDTERMS

• Western Thought


  Focus on oneself and personal need
• Eastern Thought


  Focuses less on individual basis but more of group basis
• Western Thought


  • Individualistic (self)
  • Acquisition of material things
  • Obsessed with being successful
• Eastern Thought


  • Collectivistic (others)
  • Tilted towards less assets
  • Inclined towards long life
  • Fortune and luck
  • Wisdom of years and seniority
  • Concept of reincarnation
• Culture

  • Can help or hurt the building of a healthy body image and self-esteem
  • Is just one of the many factors that influence body image and self-esteem
• Self-Esteem

  • The evaluative or affective consequence of one's self-concept
  • The extent to which one feels positive or negative about one's self-concept
• Beauty standards

  • Mauritania idolizes overweight women
  • Brazil wants women to appear fit and toned
  • Asia and Africa champion skin lightening
• Beauty (in art)

  An interaction between line, color, texture, sound, shape, motion, and size that is pleasing to the senses
• Psychosexual stages of development

  • Oral stage (0-1 years)
  • Anal stage (1-3 years)
  • Phallic stage (3-6 years)
  • Latency stage (6-puberty)
  • Genital stage (puberty-on)
• Male reproductive system

  • Penis
  • Scrotum
  • Testicles
  • Epididymis
  • Vas deferens
  • Urethra
  • Seminal vesicles
  • Prostate gland
• Female reproductive system

  • Bartholin's glands
  • Clitoris
  • Vagina
  • Uterus
  • Ovaries
  • Fallopian tubes

  
• Phases of sexual response

  • Arousal phase
  • Plateau phase
  • Orgasm phase
  • Resolution phase

  
• Diversity of sexual behavior

  • Heterosexuality
  • Homosexuality
  • Bisexuality
  • Pansexuality
  • Transsexuality
  • Transgenderism
• Methods of contraception

  • Natural contraception
  • Artificial contraception
• Material self

  Total of all the tangible things you own: your possessions, your home, your body
• Self (William James)

  • The "I" is the thinking, acting, and feeling self
  • The "me" is the physical characteristics as well as psychological capabilities that makes who you are
• When analysing markets, a range of assumptions are made about the rationality of economic agents involved in the transactions
• The Wealth of Nations was written

  1776
• Rational

  (in classical economic theory) economic agents are able to consider the outcome of their choices and recognise the net benefits of each one
• Consumers act rationally by

  Maximising their utility
• Producers act rationally by

  Selling goods/services in a way that maximises their profits
• Workers act rationally by

  Balancing welfare at work with consideration of both pay and benefits
• Governments act rationally by

  Placing the interests of the people they serve first in order to maximise their welfare
• Rationality in classical economic theory is a flawed assumption as people usually don't act rationally
• Marginal utility

  The additional utility (satisfaction) gained from the consumption of an additional product
• If you add up marginal utility for each unit you get total utility
• Contraception is important to address overpopulation and sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhoea, syphilis and AIDS
• Types of contraception

  • Natural contraception
  • Artificial contraception
• Natural contraception

  Depend on observations of a woman's body through monitoring and recording different fertility signals during the menstrual cycle

  
• Artificial contraception

  A diverse method of contraception used to prevent conception in women
• Material self

  The total of all the tangible things you own: your possessions, your home, your body
• Aspects of the material self

  • Bodily self
  • Extracorporeal self
• Body

  The innermost part of our material self, which we invest in intentionally
• Clothes

  An essential part of the material self, as they become an extension of our body
• Immediate family

  An important part of our self, as what they do or become affects us
• Home

  The earliest nest of our selfhood, an extension of self as we connect our experiences to it
• Investment

  The degree to which we regard our possessions as part of ourselves
• Spiritual self

  The innermost workings of the person's mind, behavior, beliefs, and morals
• Manifestations of the spiritual self

  • Person's will
  • Intelligence and abilities
  • Morals
  • Values
• Spirituality

  A certain way of being, not a particular practice