ASSIGNMENT 04 S01 Introduction to Psychology I Directions: Be sure to save an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling, and grammar. Sources must be cited using APA Style, 7th edition. Your response should be double‐spaced; refer to the “Format Requirementsʺ page for specific format requirements. This written assignment has two parts and involves the required readings from Lessons 1 through 4. For each lesson, you were presented with two required readings. Select one reading article from each lesson. Summarize the article and explain its importance to understanding psychology. Each summary should be a minimum of 250 words. For part 1 of this written assignment, please combine all summaries into one Word document. For part II of the written assignment, explain why the following course objectives are important to understanding psychology: 1. Define the science of psychology. 2. Distinguish between a theory, a hypothesis, and an operational definition. 3. Explain how genes, chromosomes, DNA, and genomes all relate to one another and their importance to psychology. 4. Identify and describe the major structures of the central nervous system and their primary functions. Please reference and include at least three scholarly, peer reviewed articles within your response. Your minimum word count should be at least 750 words. Format your overall response according to APA style. The total assignment should be between three to six pages, not including title page and reference page. Singer/Baer/Long/Pavlotski Chapter 6 People, Places, Concepts and Questions People, Places & Concepts Ethnomedicines Culture-bound syndromes Cultural idioms of distress Shaman Therapeutic management group Navajo sand painting Dine Cross-cultural healing Disease theory system Health-care system Personalist disease systems Naturalist disease systems Wounded healer Personalist practitioners Naturalist practitioners Internalizing systems Externalizing systems Biological adaptation for sickness and healing (SH) Illness of God Illness of human beings Fabrega Institution/system of medicine Foucault/Birth of the Clinic Clinical gaze Discussion Questions 1. What are the four ethnomedical typologies presented by Singer/Baer? What are their similarities and differences? How would you compare Das’ analytical framework to the three typologies? 2. How do Singer & Baer’s evolutionary model link disease theories and healing systems to subsistence strategies and sociopolitical organization? Do you find their discussion persuasive? Pigg Terms, Places & Peoples Shaman/dhami-jhānkis Modernity/”tradition”/”premodern” Modernization Development Belief/(andha)bíswās Differentiated locality Cosmopolitanism Objectification Discussion Questions 1. What kinds of illnesses do shaman and biomedical doctors treat? How does this differen.

1. ASSIGNMENT 04
S01 Introduction to Psychology I
Directions: Be sure to save an electronic copy of your answer
before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless
otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to
use correct English, spelling, and grammar. Sources must be
cited using APA Style, 7th edition. Your response should be
double‐spaced; refer to the “Format Requirementsʺ page for
specific format requirements.
This written assignment has two parts and involves the required
readings from Lessons 1 through 4. For each lesson, you were
presented with two required readings. Select one reading article
from each lesson. Summarize the article and explain its
importance to understanding psychology. Each summary should
be a minimum of 250 words. For part 1 of this written
assignment, please combine all summaries into one Word
document.
For part II of the written assignment, explain why the following
course objectives are important to understanding psychology:
1. Define the science of psychology.
2. Distinguish between a theory, a hypothesis, and an
operational definition.
3. Explain how genes, chromosomes, DNA, and genomes all
relate to one another and their importance to psychology.
4. Identify and describe the major structures of the central
nervous system and their primary functions.

2. Please reference and include at least three scholarly, peer
reviewed articles within your response. Your minimum word
count should be at least 750 words. Format your overall
response according to APA style. The total assignment should
be between three to six pages, not including title page and
reference page.
Singer/Baer/Long/Pavlotski
Chapter 6
People, Places, Concepts and Questions
People, Places & Concepts
Ethnomedicines
Culture-bound syndromes
Cultural idioms of distress
Shaman
Therapeutic management group
Navajo sand painting
Dine
Cross-cultural healing
Disease theory system
Health-care system
Personalist disease systems
Naturalist disease systems
Wounded healer
Personalist practitioners
Naturalist practitioners
Internalizing systems
Externalizing systems
Biological adaptation for sickness and healing (SH)
Illness of God
Illness of human beings
Fabrega
Institution/system of medicine

3. Foucault/Birth of the Clinic
Clinical gaze
Discussion Questions
1. What are the four ethnomedical typologies presented by
Singer/Baer? What are their similarities and differences? How
would you compare Das’ analytical framework to the three
typologies?
2. How do Singer & Baer’s evolutionary model link disease
theories and healing systems to subsistence strategies and
sociopolitical organization? Do you find their discussion
persuasive?
Pigg
Terms, Places & Peoples
Shaman/dhami-jhānkis
Modernity/”tradition”/”premodern”
Modernization
Development
Belief/(andha)bíswās
Differentiated locality
Cosmopolitanism
Objectification
Discussion Questions
1. What kinds of illnesses do shaman and biomedical doctors
treat? How does this differentiation symbolize relations between
a local village and the cosmopolitan modern world?
2. Pigg states that “it is possible [for Nepali cosmopolitans] to
assert decade after decade that ‘modern medicine’ is coming to

4. villages for the very first time.” What dynamics are at work
here? Why does cosmopolitanism require “credulous believers”?
3. In what ways do international development agencies conceive
of the “beliefs” of villagers? How do they associate these
beliefs with group identities and ethnicities?
4. How do villagers find a shaman who “knows”?
5. How does Pigg position herself in her work and writing? How
does this compare to Scheper-Hughes’ approach?