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19 Cards in this Set
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What were the three behaviors that successful participants In Pennbake and Beall's experiments performed?
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Wrote mostly positive events
Moderately used negative words/terms Showed a increase in insightful thought over time |
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What is stress?
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A challenging event that requires physiological, cognitive, or behavioral adaptation
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Do all people experience the same stress reaction to the same stimulus?
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No
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What is coping?
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Response aimed at diminishing the burden of stress
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What is problem-focused coping?
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taking some action to modify the stressful situation
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What is emotion-focused coping?
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attempting to change the unpleasant emotions felt due to the stressful situation
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How many entries related to stress does the DSM-IV-TR cover?
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Very few
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What is Adjustment Disorder?
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Emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor expressed as a marked distress that is in excess of what would be expected from exposure to the stressor
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What is the Sympathic Nervous System?
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The part of the nervous system that is responsible for the "flight-or-fight" response
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What is Allostatic Load?
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The physiological toll of our chronically activated stress response
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What did Cohen et al. (2003) study and what were their results?
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Does stress make people more likely to get sick; a correlation: emotional styles effect how a person experiences a cold
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What did Ackerman et al. (2002) study and what were their results?
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Can stress cause exacerbations of chronic illnesses; a correlation: stressful events usually preceded an exacerbation of women with MS
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What did Spiegel et al. study and what were their results?
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The effect of group intervention on survival rates for metastatic breast cancer; almost 100% increase in survival
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Have people be able to repeat Spiegel et al.'s findings?
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Failure to replicate the Spiegel et al. (1989) finding
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What were the three methological concerns with Spiegel et al. (1989)?
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Survival analysis was post hoc
Additional supportive care and enhanced medical surveillance for intervention group Small sample of intervention "completers" |
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What did Levy et. al. study and what was their results?
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Early age stereotypes and incidence of cardiovascular events in later life; a very weak negative correlation with positive age stereotypes and a strong negative correlation with negative age stereotypes
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How should we interpret the Levy et al. finding?
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Their may be a third unknown factor influencing the dependent and independent variables
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What did Pennbaker & Beall study?
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People were assigned to write about either personally traumatic life events or trivial topics;
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What were the findings in Pennbaker & Beall?
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Higher BP and more negative emotions immediately after writing
Significantly fewer health center visits in the 6 months following the experiment |
