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what is stress?
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it is a response to a situation that involves demands, opportunities, or contstraints.
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stressor
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anything causing a person to adapt to changing conditions
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coping strategy
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strategy adopted to manage the stress and the stressor
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eustress
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stress produced as part of positive life experiences
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dystress or distress
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stress produced as part of negative life experiences
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what are the 3 categories of the stressor?
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1. frustration
2. conflict 3. pressure |
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what are the 2 ways that frustration can be produced?
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1. the goal is being blocked
2. the goal itself is missing(want to learn guitar but there are no instructors in town) |
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what are the 4 types of conflict?
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1. approach-avoidance
2. approach-approach 3. avoidance-avoidance 4. double-approach-avoidance |
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explain approach-avoidance conflict type.
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one goal that you simultaneously want to approach and avoid
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explain approach-approach conflict.
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two goals appeal to you and you want to do both but can't
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explain avoidance-avoidance conflict.
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two outcomes, both of which are aversive, but you can only avoid one
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explain double-approach-avoidance conflict.
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two goals, both have aversive and attractive assets, yet you must only have one
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explain pressure.
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can be externally imposed or internally imposed. it helps shape behaviour.
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what are 4 facotrs that can affect how we act under stress?
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1. the nature of the stressor
2. the way we percieve the stressor 3. a person's tolerance of stress 4. impoverished external resources |
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what are 4 characteristics of a stressor, that can influence how big an effect it has on a person?
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1. severity
2. duration 3. imminence 4. other simultaneous stressors |
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______'s General Adaption Syndrome.
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Selye's
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_____ was the first person to suggest that humans/animals have a general reaction to a variety of noxious agents.
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Selye
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what are the 3 stages of Selye's General Adaption Syndrome?
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1. alarm
2. resistancce 3. exhaustion |
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explaint he alarm stage of Selye's theory.
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"fight or flight" recruits energy to deal with stressor and stops non-essential processes like digestion, growth, and the immune system
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exaplin the resistance stage of Selye's theory.
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the body attempts to return to normal
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explain the exhaustion stage of Selye's theory.
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resources are now depleted, increased bp, heart disease, and strokes, cognitive and physical function is compromised, immune system depressed
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______ is an emotional response to stress.
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anxiety
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anxiety is marked by _____, ____ and _____.
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worry, apprehension, and tension
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what does physical anxiety include?
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body tension, sweaty palms, elevated heart rate
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what does mental anxiety cause?
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excessive worry about the future, because its seen as uncontrollable and unpredictable
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anxiety is the most common disorder among _____ (gender)and the second most common among ______.
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women, men
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anxiety is often accompanied by what other disorders?
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addiction, depressive disorders, and other anxiety disorders
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what are the 6 primary types of anxiety disorders?
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1. Phobic disorders
2. Panic disorders 3. Generalized anxiety disorder 4. Obsessive Compulsive disorder 5. Post-traumatic stress disorder 6. Acute stress disorder |
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what are some characteristics of social phobia?
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marked and persistent fear of social situations where emabrassment may occur
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give characteristics for General Anxiety disorder.
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excessive worry and anxiety for most days for six months, and they show at least 3 of the following: on edge, easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritable, muscle tension, and sleep distrubance
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what is the name of the leading instrument for assesssing anxeity?
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Speilberg state-trait anxeity inventory or STAI
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the STAI has good reliability for ___ anxeity and low reliability for _____ anxiety.
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trait
state |
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what is the BAI?
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Beck Anxiety Inventory is used to help distinguish anxiety from depression
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what is test anxiety?
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an emotional state in response to being tested
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Test anxiety questionnaire is used to assess __________ ..?
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predisposition to act or think in way that interfere with a task
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what does the TAQ measure?
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state anxiety
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what does the test anxiety scale focus on and measure?
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focus is on the person and measures trait anxeity
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define behavioural impairment
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behaviour which is unusual, inappropriate, ineffective or otherwise non-normal in execution or selection.
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define mental impairment
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retrieval, object recognition, speech planning, emotion regulation which are unusual, inappropriate or ineffective
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Psychometric testing in neuropsychology is _______, ______, ____, and ___________.
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standardized, nitensive, sensitive, and scaled.
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neuropsychologists make up tests as needed, and as such, are not ___.
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standardized
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what is a test battery?
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is a set of tests deisgned to give a very complete picture of a patient's mental functioning and behaviours
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what are 3 disadvantages to tests batteries?
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1. time consuming
2. large and formal- focus on test 3. supresses clinician's useful curiosity |
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give an example of a test battery.
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Halstead Reitan Neuropsychological test
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what does malingering mean?
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faking a disorder or deficit
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explain Munchausen Syndrome.
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involves faking illnessto gain attnetion or sympathy
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exaplin Munchausen by Proxy
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the person makes someone else ill, such as a child, to gain attention or sympathy
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in most people, language functions are in the ____ hemisphere.
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left
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what is Agnosia?
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an inability to recognize familiar objects on the basis of their appearance.
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what is visual object aagnosia?
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inability to identify common visual objects
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what is prosopagnosia?
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inability to recognize familiar faces
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colour agnosia
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inability to discriminate between colours and to name them
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simultanagnosia
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visual perception of simultaneously presented obejects is impaired
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what is retrograde amnesia?
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loss or memory for events in the past
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what is anterograde amnesia?
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loss of ability to store new memories
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what is Wernicke's Aphasia?
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impaired verbal comprehension, and ability to repeat information, utter nonsense syllables
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what is dyslexia?
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trouble decoding single words
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In addition to assessing brain injury in adults with the Halstead Reitan test, we should use ________ to evaluate emotional state, and the _______.
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MMPI and WAIS
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what does Pluripotentiality mean?
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any one centre in the brain does more than on function
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The California Learning Test can help to identify : give 2 examples.
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fakers or brain injury and learning disabilities
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describe the characteristics of the Test Anxiety Qustionnaire.
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it measures task relevant responses and tast irrelevant responses, has high reliability and focuses on the test anxiety problem
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describe characteristics of the Test Anxiety scale.
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focuses on the person, high trait anxiety and high environmental anxeity produce the most test anxiety
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according to Leibert and Morris, emotionality is what?
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physical response to test taking
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according to Leibert and Morris, what is worry?
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mental preoccupation with failing and personal consequences
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according to Alpert and Haber, and the achievement anxiety test, what are the two components of anxeity?
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debilitating- interferes with test
facilitating - motivates performance |
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Quality of Life Years hekp evaluate the _________ of health programs.
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cost effectiveness
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