Body weight, perception, alcoholism, extraversion, and schizophrenia are all social and biological factors that can have a lasting impact on an individual. Body Weight affects ones thinking, especially in America where the emphasis is that thinner people are more beautiful. So the people that are larger tend to do things such as diet, eat less, and in some drastic attempts to lose weight fall into an eating disorder. Becoming obese is also biologically bad for you. It can raise your cholesterol level and increase your chances of having a heart attack. Perception is the process of understanding and interpreting sensations. A person's ability to perceive things, these are an important social factor because it allows a person to see and understand the world. It is also the way we process things, the way we perceive things affects our ability to adapt, learn and interpret new information. Alcoholism can affect an individual biologically and socially if your parent is an alcoholic. Biologically if you"re born to an alcoholic you can be born with many birth defects such as fetal alcohol syndrome, which usually leads to the eventually death of the child. Socially alcohol is linked to abuse and neglect by the parent. This can make the child rebellious and resentful to society. Because the child tends to model after the adult it can also lead to the child continuing the abuse onto the next generation. Extraversion is the trait that people who are outgoing, like excitement, jokes but do not like quiet reading possess. This is a social factor because it affects the way they behave. Extravert people tend to be more popular and well-liked. Extraverted people have an easier time adjusting to new situations. Schizophrenia is a biological affect in the brain where the ventricles are larger than normal. It causes the victim to experience many hallucinations and delusions along with paranoia.
