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What is a perspective that focuses on illness rather than health?

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Biomedical model

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What is a perspective that focuses on health as well as illness?

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Biopsychosocial model

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What is a field concerned with psychological factors that contribute to health, illness and response to illness?

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Health psychology

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What approach of psychology promotes interventions to foster good health and aid in recovery from illness?

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Health psychology

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What were the primary causes of death at the turn of the last century?

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Pneumonia, body fatigue and infectious diseases

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What causes illness and death in us today?

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Stress, unhealthy lifestyles and lifestyle related diseases

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What is the physical and psychological response of the body to any demand that is made on an organism?

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Stress

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What requires an organism to adapt, cope or adjust?

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Stress

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What is any event capable of producing physical or emotional stress?

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Stressor

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What are the 3 types of stress?

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1) eustress
2) cumulative stress
3) distress

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What is a generally short-term stress, known to be a positive motivating force?

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Eustress

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What is a long-term stress that builds over time, producing fatigue and lack of concentration?

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Cumulative

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What is either a short-term or long-term stress that is a negative dysfunctional force, and may lead to disease or health failure?

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Distress

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What is a mental and physical exhaustion that psychologically and physiologically incapacitated the individual?

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Emotional burnout

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What effects does emotional burnout produce?

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Anxiety, panic, difficulty in concentration, sense of loss of control and autoimmune disease reactions

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What are the irritating, frustrating and annoying stresses of everyday life?

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Daily hassles

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What are the major events that can be positive or negative, not occurring on a regular basis?

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Life changes

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How do our well-being and the degree to which we live with a sense of control correlate?

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Our well-being is influenced by the sense of control

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What is happening to numbers of persons taking stress leaves and seeking counselling?

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Increasing

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Who are victims of systemic historical racism?

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Black America, apartheid in South Africa, First Nations people everything

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What are events that expose people to unordinary extreme calamities, profoundly effecting victims and witnesses who hear or see it later?

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Traumatic and catastrophic events

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Why is critical incident stress debriefing after a traumatic event important?

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So that you can acknowledge that what you’re feeling is a normal reaction to abnormal events

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What is the difference between PTS and PTSD?

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PTS is a common, normal and adaptive response to a traumatic event, while PTSD is a clinically-diagnosed condition, where people constantly think about and relive their experiences

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How long can PTSD occur after traumatic event?

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6 months or longer, tends to be persistent

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What is characterized by feelings of anxiety that are caused by a traumatic event?
Acute stress disorder
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When does acute stress disorder occur?
Within a month of the event and lasts 2 days to 4 weeks
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Which psychologist was a pioneer in the study of emotion and stress, especially in their relation to cognition?
Richard Lazarus
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Which theory of emotion centered on the concept of appraisal, dealing with how an individual evaluated the impact of an event on his or her well-being?
Cognitive theory of stress
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What are Lazarus’ 4 phases of stress?
1) Causal Agent - stressor 2) evaluation of stressor - assessment of threat 3) mind & body coping process - dealing with stress 4) stress reaction - complex pattern of effects on mind and body
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What do we term stress and frustration being caused by being pulled in two or more directions by opposing/conflicting motives?
Conflicting motives
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What are 4 different types of conflict?
1) approach-approach 2) avoidance-avoidance 3) approach-avoidance 4) multiple approach-avoidance
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What is the type of conflict when you are choosing between two positive alternatives?
Approach-approach conflict
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What is the least stressful type of conflict?
Approach-approach
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What is the type of conflict when each choice is undesirable?
Avoidance-avoidance
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Which conflict causes stress when making a choice that produces negatives and positives?
Approach-avoidance
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What is the type of conflict when each of several alternative courses of action has pluses and minuses?
Multiple approach-avoidance conflict
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What approach to dealing with stress consists of reappraising, modifying, or eliminating the source of stress itself?
Problem-focused coping
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Which approach to dealing with stress involves reappraising a stress and changing our response?
Emotion-focused coping
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Which approach to dealing with stress requires that our efforts are initiated before a stressful situation occurs to minimize its consequences?
Proactive coping
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Which psychologist proposed that our beliefs about events can become stressors?
Albert Ellis
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What did Albert Ellis say about interpreting negative events as being disastrous?
It creates and compounds stress
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What type are people who are highly driven, competitive, impatient, hostile and aggressive?
Type A
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What type are people who tend to relax more readily and focus more on the quality of life?
Type B
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Which personality type of people experience much more stress-related physical health issues, such as coronary heart disease?
Type A
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Who was a Canadian endocrinologist who did important work on the non-specific response of the organism to stress?
Hans Selye
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Whi described the fight or flight response in organism, stimulated by the sympathetic nervous system?
Hans Selye and Walter Cannon
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Who conceptualized the general adaptation syndrome?
Hans Selye
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What are the stages in the general adaptation syndrome?
1) alarm 2) resistance 3) exhaustion
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What effects does repeated stress have on the body?
Wears it out
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Which stage is triggered by the individuals response to a stressor?
Alarm reaction stage
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Which stage mobilizes and arouses the body?
Alarm stage
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Which stage causes corticosteroids to be released by the endocrine system?
Alarm reaction
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What are released to fuel the fight or flight response?
Adrenaline and noradrenaline
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What is also called the adaptation stage?
Resistance stage
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Is the activation of the endocrine and sympathetic nervous system higher or lower than the alarm stage in the resistance stage?
Lower
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What occurs when a stressor is not dealt with adequately during the resistance stage?
Exhaustion
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What stage of the general adaptation syndrome does the Parasympathetic nervous system dominate?
Exhaustion stage
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What may lead to diseases of adaption?
Continued stress
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What effects does stress have on the immune system?
It erodes it
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Who suggested that how one experiences depends on how one perceives a situation?
Lazarus
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What is evaluating a situation to determine if it’s positive, negative or irrelevant to one’s well-being?
Primary appraisal
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What is evaluating resources to alleviate stress when a situation is in a person’s control?
Secondary appraisal
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What is the system of the body that recognizes and destroys foreign agents that invade the body?
Immune system
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How does the immune system combat disease?
Leukocytes generate antibodies to battle antigens
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How do steroids affect the immune system?
Stress stimulates production of steroids, which suppress the functioning of the immune system and increase vulnerability to infections
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What is the immune system of a busy and stressed student like?
Lower functioning
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What is the immune system of students with many friends like?
Better functioning
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What is typically men’s response to stress?
Fight or flight
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What is typically a woman’s response to stress?
Tend and befriend
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What is the evolutionary explanation for the gender difference in response to stress?
Male hormones promote aggressive behavior and men are more likely to develop stress-related disorders
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What is a cluster of traits that make people resistant to stress?
Psychological hardiness
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What are the 3 characteristics usually shown by psychologically hardy individuals?
1) high commitment 2) high challenge 3) high perceived control over their lives
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What was Julian Rotter’s work on Locus of Control?
It is the degree that one’s cognitions are influenced by either internal or external forces
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What is Locus of Control?
It is the place or source of control
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How does humour effect stress?
Moderates the effect. Laughter stimulates endorphin output, which increases immune system functioning
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Are optimists typically type A or B?
Type B
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What are characteristics of optimists?
Cope better with stress, problem-focused coping
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What are characteristics of pessimists?
Denial and focus on stressful feelings
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What personality type is a pessimist?
A
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What helps us to brace for a stressor?
Predictability
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How does control effect our coping with stressors?
Enhances our ability to cope
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How does social support act as a buffer against the effects of stress?
Protects the body’s cardiovascular and endocrine systems
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What is a microscopic organism that can cause disease?
Pathogen
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What are biological factors?
Age, gender, genetics and injuries
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What are psychological factors?
Attitudes, emotions and behaviours
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What are sociocultural factors?
Social and technological environments
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What does the biopsychosocial model suggest contributes to contracting an illness?
Biological, psychological and sociocultural
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What is the second leading cause of death in Canada?
Coronary Heart disease
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What are risk factors of coronary heart disease?
Smoking, Physical and activity, high blood pressure, diabetes, over consumption of alcohol, obesity, high blood cholesterol
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What are health promoting behaviours to decrease the risk of coronary heart disease?
Healthy eating, exercising regularly, quitting smoking
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What is the leading cause of death in Canada?
Cancer
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What are risk factors of cancer?
Genetic disposition, workplace hazards, stress sunlight, unsafe sexual behavior, smoking, depression, radiation
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What are health promoting behaviours to decrease the risk of cancer?
Stopping smoking, exercising regularly, eating so you were saturated fat, regular medical check ups
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Who are at high risk of contracting Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)?
Young adults
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What are the most common STI’s?
Chlamydia and gonorrhoea
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What can lead to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)?
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
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How many HIV cases were reported to the Canadian Public Health Agency between 1985 and 2016?
84,409
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What increases the risk for contracting HIV or AIDS?
Unsafe sexual practises and intravenous drugs
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What are risk reduction strategies for STI ‘s?
Condom use, limiting sexual partners, knowing partner sexual history, refraining from injecting drugs, getting tested for HIV and other STI’s

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