Ch 11-15

Question 1

Definition of Stress

Answer 1

Physical, emotional, cognitive, and beh. responses; threatening or challenging

Question 2

2 Types of Stress

Answer 2

Distress: the effect of unpleasant and desirable stressors
Eustress: the effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being

Question 3

What is G.A.S?

Answer 3

General Adaptation Syndrome: the three stages of the body’s physiological reaction to stress ~>Alarm, Resistance, & Exhaustion

Question 4

Types of Stress Personality

Answer 4

Type A: workaholics
Type B: non competitive
Type C: pleasant, try to keep peace, internalize anger etc.
Type H: thrives on stress, lacks hospitality and anger of type A

Question 5

Acculturative Stress

Answer 5

Stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons way to the majority culture
•Integration, Assimilation, Separation, & Marginalization

Question 6

Definition of Social Psychology

Answer 6

Scientific study of how a persons behavior, thoughts, and feelings influence and are influenced by social groups

Question 7

Compliance

Answer 7

People change when asked by others to change

Question 8

Impression Formation

Answer 8

The forming of the first knowledge that a person has concerning another person

Question 9

Conformity

Answer 9

Changing ones own behavior to make the actions of others

Question 10

Components of Love

Answer 10

Intimacy, Passion, & Commitment (romantic/companionate love)

Question 11

Difference between Prejudice and Discrimination

Answer 11

Prejudice: attitude (negative)
Discrimination: behavior (treating ppl diff. bc they’re diff.)

Question 12

Deindividuation

Answer 12

Deindividuation: anonymous experiences less personal responsibility

Question 13

Social Loafing

Answer 13

Occurs when people don’t work hard when others are also working
•easy to ‘hide’ in a group

Question 14

Definition of Social Cognition & 3 types

Answer 14

Ways in which people think about other people and how those influences behavior towards others
• attitude, impression formation, & attribution

Question 15

Definition of Social Influence

Answer 15

Interactions that directly or indirectly influences the behavior, feelings, and thoughts of another person
• conformity, group behavior, compliance, and obedience

Question 16

Definition of Personality

Answer 16

The way a individual thinks, acts, and feels throughout life

•Lokani : ppl don’t consider feelings of children being called certain names

Question 17

Ego defenses

Answer 17

Denial, Repression, Projections, Displacement, Regression, & Sublimation

Question 18

Social Cognitive views on Personality

Answer 18

Due to a persons own expectancies on learning

Question 19

Individualism VS Collectivism

Answer 19

Individualism: looking out for themselves, autonomy
Collectivism: family, community, obliged

Question 20

Issues with Projective Tests

Answer 20

Nature of tests result in possible subjectivity in interpretation; reliability is suspect

Question 21

Assessment of Personality

Answer 21

Interviews, Projective Tests, Behavioral Assessments, & Personality Interventions

Question 22

4 Dimensions of Cultural Personality

Answer 22

Individualism/Collectivism, Power distance, Masculinity/Femininity, Uncertainty avoidance

Question 23

Temperament & what causes it

Answer 23

Enduring characteristic a person is born with

•biologically innate

Question 24

What is the Biopsychosocial Model

Answer 24

Abnormal thinking or behavior is a result of combined interacting forces of biological, psychological, social, and cultural influences

Question 25

What is DSM 5?

Answer 25

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

• published in 1952;

Question 26

What is diagnosis of Major Depression?

Answer 26

Severe depression that comes suddenly and seems to have no external cause, or is too severe for current circumstances

Question 27

Personality Disorders: what do they have in common?

Answer 27

All have a pattern of behavior that interferes with social interactions
• involves thinking that and behavior

Question 28

Schizophrenia

Answer 28

Disorder in which the person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, hallucinations, and inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality

Question 29

What is Moral Treatment movement?

Answer 29

The movement of humane treatment of the mentally ill

•1793, Philippe Pinel

Question 30

2 kinds of Therapy

Answer 30

Treatment Methods: psychotherapy

Biomedical: drugs, surgery,shock, etc.

Question 31

Humanistic Basic Elements

Answer 31

Authenticity (open honest), Unconditional Regard ( non judgmental), & Empathy

Question 32

What is ECT?

Answer 32

Electroconvulsive Therapy

• electric shock to either one side of the brain

Question 33

What is Cognitive Therapy?

Answer 33

Recognizing distortions in their thinking and replacing it with more realistic, helpful thoughts
•arbitrary thinking, selective thinking, over generalization, magnification/minimization, & a monkey personalization

Question 34

History of Psychosurgery

Answer 34

Prefrontal lobotomy:cutting into the brain
•widely used in the mid 1900 till antipsychotics drugs
Trans orbital lobotomy: like ice peak into eye socket

Question 35

What are western healing practice VS Hawaiian?

Answer 35

Ho’olamomi: Swedish massage
La’u lapa’au: herbalist, plants, minerals
Ho’oponopono: meditation, mediation, balance