Behavioral and medical knowledge about factors influencing health form the basis of the field of:
What is Behavioral Medicine
100
A relatively high level of arousal would be most likely to facilitate:
A. remembering the lines of a play.
B. shooting free throws in basketball
C. sprinting 100 meters
D. taking a final exam in introductory psychology.
What is Sprinting 100 meters
100
Sometimes our arousal response to one event spills over into our response to the next event
What is spillover effect
100
Physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion brought on by persistent job related stress
What is burnout
100
A hostile person with a type A personality is most at risk for developing this.
What is heart disease?
200
Which theory of emotion emphasizes the simultaneous experience of body response and emotional feelings?
What is Cannon-Bard theory?
200
People who are exuberant and persistently cheerful increased activity in the brain's____, which is rich in receptors for the neurotransmitter____.
A.right frontal lobe;dopamine
B. left frontal lobe; dopamine
C. amygdala; serotonin
D. thalamus; serotonin
What is left frontal lobe; dopamine
200
A general sense of happiness or life satisfaction is most unrelated to whether or not people:
A. sleep well
B. are well educated
C. happy marriage
D. have a meaningful religious faith
What are well educated
200
During which stage of the general adaptation syndrome is a person especially vulnerable to disease?
What is stage of exhaustion
200
A variety of therapeutic or preventative health care practices that are alternatives to mainstream medicine, such as chiropractic, homeopathy, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, naturopathy, and herbal medicine.
What is Alternative Medicine
300
According to the Cannon-Bard theory
a. the thalamus plays a central role in producing emotions.
b. the cerebellum must give the go-ahead for emotion.
c. activity in the occipital and parietal lobes happens simultaneously to produce emotion.
d. the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems work in concert.
What is the Thalamus, which plays a central role in producing emotions.
300
You are feeling a lot of fear, the brain site most likely involved is
What is the Amygdala
300
The polygraph or "lie detector" primarily measures which component of emotion?
What is physiological arousal
300
Jill is an easygoing, noncompetitve person who is happy in her job and enjoys her leisure time. She would probably be classified as:
What is type B
300
Study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.
What is Psychoneuroimmunology
400
Which theory holds that we are afraid because we run or are angry because we strike?
What is the James-Lange theory?
400
Margaret is a finalist in the U.S. Ice Skating Championship. She is very excited about the competition and is feeling energized. More than likely, the two dimensions of her current emotion would be a ___ and ___
A. positive valence; low arousal
B. Positive valence; high arousal
C.Negative valence; low arousal
D. negative valence; high arousal
What is positive valence; high arousal
400
People from different cultures can recognize which facial expressions?
What is fear, anger, disgust..(etc.)
400
Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress as composed of three stages-- alarm, resistance exhaustion.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
400
Acupuncture, aromatherapy, and homeopathy are forms of
What is complementary and alternative medicine.
500
The process by which we perceive and respond to challenging or threatening events.
What is Stress
500
Electrical stimulation of which brain region can produce terror or rage in cats?
What is Limbic System
500
Subjective well-being is most strongly influenced by what?
What is genetic predispositions
500
A system of recording, amplifying, and feeding back information about subtle physiological responses; mirror the results of a person's own efforts, thereby allowing the person to learn techniques for controlling a particular physiological response
What is Biofeedback
500
Malcolm's report on the effects of nicotine mentions each of the following except:
A. increased heart rate.
B. appetite suppression.
C. increased circulation to extremities
D. release of endorphins triggered by nicotine