Ch. 14 Psych

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Health psychology

Back 1

A subfield of psychology that focuses on maintaining health and preventing / treating illness.

Hint 1

Behavioral, social, and cognitive factors.

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Behavioral medicine

Back 2

Develop and integrate behavioral and biomedical knowledge to promote health and reduce illness.

Hint 2

behavioral, social, and biomedical factors.

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Buopsychosocial Model of Health

Back 3

The integration of biological, psychological, and social factors in dealing with health-related behaviors.

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Health behaviors

Back 4

Practices that have an impact on physical well-being.

Hint 4

Exercise, eating right, and brushing your teeth.

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Theory of reasoned action

Back 5

Specific intention, positive attitude, and approval of social group.

Hint 5

What's needed to make life changes

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Theory of planned behavior

Back 6

Specific intention, positive attitude, and approval of social group. Plus the perception of control over the outcome.

Front 7

Icek Ajzen

Back 7

Modified the theory of reasoned action to include the fact that not all of our behaviour are under our control

Front 8

What are the five stages in the Stages of Change Model?

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Precontemplation

Contemplation

Preparation

Action

Maintenance

Hint 8

PC PAM

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Social relationships

Back 9

Probably the most important variable in predicting health.

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Social support

Back 10

Feedback from others that one is loved, cared for, valued, and included in a network of communication.

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What are three benefits of social support?

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Tangible Assistant, Information and Emotional Support.

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Tangible assistance

Back 12

Family and friends can provide goods and services and stressful circumstances.

Hint 12

Gifts of food given after a loved one dies.

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Social sharing

Back 13

Turning to others who act as sounding boards or a willing ear.

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Personality characteristics

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Conscientiousness, personal control, self-efficacy, and optimism.

Hint 14

High levels in each of these traits leads to healthier, longer lives.

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Stress

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Physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioral responses to events that are perceived as threatening or challenging.

Hint 15

How you feel at college

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Stressors

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Events that cause stress reactions.

Hint 16

College finals

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Distress

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Stress is caused by unpleasant happenings.

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Eustress

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Stress that is caused by positive happenings

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Personal control

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You feel that you are responsible for and in control of your own behaviour and choices.

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Learned helplessness

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After repeated exposure to uncontrollable aversive events, organisms will develop a tendency to remain in stressful situations, even when espcape is possible.

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What are sources of stress?

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Pressure, personal control, frustration, and conflict.

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Conflict

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Having to choose between two options, where both options are good, bad, or both.

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Approach - approach conflict

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Torn between 2 desirable goals

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Avoidance - avoidance conflict

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torn between two undesirable goals

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Approach - avoidance conflict

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Choosing yes or no about a goal that has both good and bad things about it.

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General adaptation syndrome

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Hans Selves description of what happens when you make strong demands on the body.

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Alarm stage

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The body mobilizes its resources

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First stage of stress

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Resistance stage

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The body strives mightily to endure the stressor.

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The second stage of stress

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Exhaustion stage

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Resistance becomes depleted

Hint 29

The last stage of stress

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Type A personality

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Workaholic, perfectionist, competitive, easily annoyed.

Hint 30

More likely to have unhealthy heart conditions

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Type B personality

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Easy going, slow to anger, sloppy, and disorganized

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Type C personality

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Internalizes feelings, wants everyone to get along, and avoids conflict.

Hint 32

Mostly to get cancer

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Hardy personality

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Thrives on stress

Front 34

Cognitive appraisal

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An individual interpretation of an event as either harmful, threatening or challenging, and the person's evaluation of whether he / she has the resources to deal with the event.

Front 35

Primary appraisal

Back 35

Estimating severity of the stressor and classifying it as a threat, a challenge, or a lot.

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Secondary appraisal

Back 36

Estimating resources to deal with stressor

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Coping

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A kind of problem solving that involves managing stressful circumstances, expending effort to solve life's difficulties and seek to reduce stress.

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Problem - focused coping

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Cognitive strategy squarely facing one's troubles and trying to solve them.

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Emotion - focused coping

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Trying to manage onesie motional reaction to a stressor, rather than focusing on the root problem.