Module 5.1a

Question 1

Health Psychology

Answer 1

A subfield of psychology that explores the impact of psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors on health and wellness.

Question 2

Psychoneuroimmunology

Answer 2

The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect our immune system and resulting health.

Question 3

Stress

Answer 3

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging

Question 4

Approach and Avoidance Motives

Answer 4

The drive to move toward (approach) or away from (avoid) a stimulus.

Question 5

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

Answer 5

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases–alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Question 6

Tend-and-Befriend Response

Answer 6

Under stress, people (especially women) may nurture themselves and others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend)

Question 7

Coronary Heart Disease

Answer 7

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; a leading cause of death in many developed countries

Question 8

Type A

Answer 8

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, har-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

Question 9

Type B

Answer 9

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing relaxed people

Question 10

Catharsis

Answer 10

In psychology, the idea that “releasing” agressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.