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Types of rats that are least able to reject implanted cancerous tumors?
Rats that are stressed
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When coping with stress, what is an important element that is shown with a study of rats that showed a smaller stress response when a flash of light signaled a shock?
The predictability allows the rat to cope with the stressor.
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Symptoms of narcolepsy?
Irresistible periods of need to sleep that are accompanied by specific physical symptoms such as brief, sudden loss of muscle tone precipitated by laughter.
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What is important to realize when understanding the relationship between stress and health?
Learning more adaptive ways of dealing with stress can limit the recurrence or improve the course of many physical illnesses. In order to promote health, specialists in behavioral medicine therefore encourage healthy coping through stress management, proper diet, regular exercise, and avoidance of tobacco use.
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How does the DSM classify stress that is related to physical illness?
As Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions. This diagnosis is part of a new DSM-5 category called Somatic Symptom and Other Disorders, which also includes problems like conversion disorder, where psychological issues are prominent but the physical symptoms often are medically unexplained.
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What group of women should the health department target with the goal of reducing heart disease in women?
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What were the four reasons that the National Research Council reported life expectancy in US lagging behind other countries?
- 1. Poor health behavior like excessive smoking, drinking, and eating
- 2. Poverty due to large income disparities in the U.S.
- 3. physical environments that depend more on driving and less on exercise
- 4. Health care systems that limit access to primary care.
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What allows humans to better cope with stressful events?
Predictability and control help reduce stress.
Physical activity
Outlets for frustration
Optimism
Religion
Repression - maladaptive
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How is stress measured on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale for each item?
life change units
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What part of the brain receives a signal of a threat, that is responsible for activating the stress response?
The amygdala
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How do positive psychologists define the ability to cope well with life’s challenges?
When people show resilience, the ability to cope successfully with the challenges of life. When people grow due to stress.
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What is a good analogy for Selye’s theory of chronic stress?
A car that has run out of gas and is damaged because stress keeps turning the key, trying to restart the engine.
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What is meant by psychosomatic disorders?
a product of both the psyche (mind) and the soma (body).
Ulcers, migraine, hypertension, asthma...
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What is a stress hormone?
cortisol...helps the body make repairs in response to injury or infection. But excess can harm the hippocampus, causing muscular atrophy.
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If someone thinks he can control the situation by himself, what will the belief do for/to him?
it alleviates stress
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What factors of a situation make it the most stressful?
Not have control or something being unpredictable ?
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What are the symptoms of sleep apnea?
trouble sleeping due to breathing problems.
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When, in the general adaptation syndrome, does stress cause physical illness based on Selye’s theory?
Exhaustion
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If you tell someone that whatever is upsetting him is not a big deal, what are you trying to help him do? (Think appraisals)
Trying to change their primary appraisal.
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What happens during the fight-or-flight response?
It's a maladaptive reaction to stress. The sympathetic nervous system is activated- your heart and respiration rates increase, your blood pressure rises, your pupils dilate, your blood sugar levels elevate, and your blood flow is redirected in preparation for muscular activity.
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What field looks at the relationship between stress and immune function?
psychoneuroimmunology (pNI)
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What is the relationship between optimism and health?
It's a healthy coping style. It's linked with better health habits and less illness.
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What takes place in a behavioral medicine clinic?
Mental health professionals, health psychologists, focus on psychological influence on the symptoms, cause, and treatment of physical illnesses.
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How did Cannon see the fight or flight response?
That it's a maladaptive response to stress.
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Why can stress indirectly cause illness
By disrupting health behavior, any action that promotes good health( balanced diet, regular sleep, exercise, and avoiding unhealthy activities like smoking).
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