Health, stress, and coping

Question 1

The overall condition of optimal well being displaying a soundness of mind and body, while being free of disease

Answer 1

Health

Question 2

The study of the relationship between psychological variables and health

Answer 2

Health psychology

Question 3

The overall pattern of decision and behaviors that determine health and quality of life (in the context of health psychology)

Answer 3

Lifestyle

Question 4

Study of the interaction between psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems of the human body.
-Ex, cardiovascular disease, cancer, aids

Answer 4

Psychoneuroimmunology

Question 5

Associated with poor health.
-Individuals tend to be chronically depressed, anxious, hostile, and frequently ill

Answer 5

Disease prone personality

Question 6

Associated with warding off illness.
-Occurs by releasing emotions that are toxic to the mind and body
-Health can be positively affected

Answer 6

Disease resistant personality

Question 7

Willingness to practice healthy habits depends on perception of the benefits and that reducing certain behaviors will impact life.

Answer 7

Health belief model

Question 8

The method of the health belief model that educates and modifies poor health practices

Answer 8

Primary prevention

Question 9

The method of the health belief model that emphasizes early detection.

Answer 9

Secondary prevention

Question 10

Mental of physical condition that occurs which requires a person to adjust or adapt to the situation/ environment.
-Derives from a lack of awarness

Answer 10

Stress

Question 11

Any event capable of causing physical or emotional stress

Answer 11

Stressors

Question 12

What are the four types of stressors and how are they rated?

Answer 12

They are rated on intensity and duration. They can also combine to feel like avalanches of stress
1. Acute - crowds, traffic, running late
2. Intermittent
3. Chronic - chronic illness, family stressors
4. Universal - death, war

Question 13

Physical reaction to stress that disturbs normal balance in the body.
-GAS

Answer 13

Stress reactions

Question 14

What makes up the acronym GAS?

Answer 14

General adaptation syndrome:
1. Alarm reaction - the body prepares for action
2. Resistance - the body stays at a highly aroused state which drains resources
3. Exhaustion - the body’s resources are fatigued, leaving it susceptible to illness

Question 15

Characteristic ways of responding to stress

Answer 15

Coping

Question 16

The techniques an individual uses to solve personal and interpersonal issues.
-Problem solving
-Emotional focused
-Social focused

Answer 16

Coping skills

Question 17

Stressful condition that occurs when a person must choose between contradictory needs, desires, motives, or demands

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Conflict

Question 18

Conflict situation that is easily resolved

Answer 18

Unstable equilibrium
both people are loosey goosey on their beliefs, they could go either way, they are unstable so it is more easily solved

Question 19

Conflicts that are difficult to resolve

Answer 19

Stable equilibrium.
both people are firm on their beliefs, they are stable in their beliefs, making it hard to solve

Question 20

One of the four types of conflict where a person is faced with making a choice between two or more desirable goals.
-What situation of conflict does this fall under?

Answer 20

Approach - approach
-Unstable equilibrium (UE)

Question 21

One of the four types of conflict where a person is faced with two choices, both are viewed as negative or repellent.
-What situation of conflict does this fall under?

Answer 21

Avoidance - Avoidance
-Stable equilibrium (SE)

Question 22

One of the four types of conflict where a person is both attracted and repelled by the same choice.
-What situation of conflict does this fall under?

Answer 22

Approach - Avoidance
-Stable equilibrium (SE)

Question 23

One of the four types of conflict where more ofter a person is faced with two or more choices that have attracting and repelling qualities to them.
-What situation of conflict does this fall under?

Answer 23

Double Approach - Avoidance
-Stable equilibrium (SE)

Question 24

Psychological strategies utilized by the unconscious mind to manipulate or distort reality and to maintain a socially acceptable self image.
-Used by Ego
-In the short term, the person can cope
-In the long term, the person lives in a distorted reality

Answer 24

Defense mechanisms of that bitch Freud

Question 25

Freud's 8 defense mechanisms: Pushing from awareness

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Repression. *pushing trauma down to forget about it*

Question 26

Freud's 8 defense mechanisms: Making actions seem reasonable

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Rationalization *"it's not that bad"*

Question 27

Freud's 8 defense mechanisms: Attributing one's own undesirable thoughts to another

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Projection *Person who is having an affair may accuse their partner of infidelity*

Question 28

Freud's 8 defense mechanisms: Acting the opposite to impulses

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Reaction formation *An insecure man acting overly masculine*

Question 29

Freud's 8 defense mechanisms: Converting unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable actions

Answer 29

Sublimation *Boxing instead of fighting people on the street*

Question 30

Freud's 8 defense mechanisms: Deflecting impulses from the original target to one that is less threatening

Answer 30

Displacement *Boss yells at worker, they come home and yell at child*

Question 31

Freud's 8 defense mechanisms: Discounting the existence of impulses

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Denial *"I don't have a drinking problem"*

Question 32

Freud's 8 defense mechanisms: Dealing with events in a clinically detached way

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Intellectualization *If someone is rude to me, I may intellectualize that as them having a bad day.* *Treating scenarios as ones that need to be solved and discounting one's own emotions*