Social psych – social beings – Flashcards
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What is social isolation
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the distancing of an individual from his or her networks of desired or needed relationships with others
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Is social isolation voluntary?
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Can be - want privacy or alone but mostly involuntary and chronic
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How physical health affected by social isolation?
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blood pressure, hypertension, heart rate, sleep and immunity
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Studies on human and animals show social contact an help with what?
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coping with stress
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People who feel subjectively isolated tend to live longer or shorter?
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shorter lives
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How mental health affected by social isolation?
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poorer mental abilities and cognitive decline with age, related to depression and negative social interactions,
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Brain imaging reveals that socially isolated people on high alert for social threat and this results in
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negative social expectation
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How can social isolation affect individual behaviour?
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criminal tendencies, alcohol abuse, traffic accidents, self harm
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How do we get social isolated
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rejection. Aversive reaction to be rejected
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Social isolation is painful where brain affected?
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same region as brain associated with physical pain. Connection between physical and psychological pain
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Social rejection causes anger, anxiety also leads to emotional NUMBNESS
eg. ball tossing paradigm to stimulate this showed
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less pain sensitivity greater tolerance for pain but this wears off over time
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Impact of social rejection can lead to antisocial tendencies
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weaker feelings empathy = les cooperative, willing to help. Blast excessive noise to others
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Social excluded actually very keen on social connections = how this evident?
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visual cortex more activated (similar to hunger sight of food)
increased desire to join social groups to help meet others
However more vulnerable and sensitive to rejection
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Social exclusion impacts mental abilities
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decreased intelligence, reasoning,
Maybe due to socially excluded - poor self control
or using mental energy on unnecessary tasks
- less purpose in life
