MENTAL HEALTH
Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs
True or False
Schools of Psychology
Anger and Stress
100
How much sleep is generally needed for adults?
Sleep range is suggested to be 7-9 hours.
100
What "chemical" is alcohol?
What is ethanol
100
Thanksgiving is always celebrated on the 23rd of November.
False.
100
A branch of psychology and therapy concerned with examining human thoughts and behaviors, and how they influence each other.
Cognitive Psychology
100
This is often a response when we feel something is unfair, or when we feel we have been hurt (physically or emotionally).
What is anger
200
A disorder characterized by anxiety and restricting one's diet. There is an element of "too much" control, and an inability to accurately perceive one's body mass.
Anorexia nervosa.
200
The effects alcohol has on the heart.
Cardiomyopathy (Stretching and drooping of heart muscle), arrhythmia (Irregular heart beat), Stroke (when blood stops reaching a part of your brain), High blood pressure
200
Abraham Lincoln invented Thanksgiving (as an official federal holiday) along with freeing slaves and winning the civil war.
True. What a boss.
200
A state of focused awareness
Attention
200
A chemical hormone that is released when we are angry or scared. Increases heart rate, circulation, blood pressure, breathing, and metabolism.
Adrenaline or epinephrine.
300
A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of eating large quantities of food. Often involves feeling like there is a loss of control over one's eating habits and behaviors. Does not include behaviors that attempt to "compensate" for the overeating, such as purging or excessive exercising.
What is binge eating disorder.
300
This chemical is formed when the process of making alcohol goes wrong. Indistinguishable from typical alcohol. Ingesting it causes blindness, coma, and death (due to body processing it into formaldehyde, which is poisonous to the central nervous system).
What is methanol
300
In actuality, the idea of Thanksgiving was first celebrated in North America by the Spanish and French colonists.
True. But we showed them! By winning.
300
The amount of things a person is able to pay attention to at once.
Only one! Although we are able to discern different types of information at the same time (listening to music and reading, for example), your mind can only actively attend to processing mainly one thing in any given moment.
300
The three possible responses when we feel threatened.
Fight, flight, or freeze.
400
A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of eating large quantities of food. Accompanied by feelings of loss of control over one's behavior and eating habits. Also accompanied by an attempt to "compensate" for overeating by purging or excessive exercising.
What is bulimia nervosa.
400
A condition caused by long-term heavy alcohol use.
Korsakoff's syndrome. You lose the ability to form new memories, can't recall old ones, can't use language easily, and are permanently slowed. All due to the death of too many brain cells.
400
The first Thanksgiving was so balling, it lasted for three whole days.
True. Dat.
400
The two main types of memory.
Working memory (or short-term) and Long-term memory.
400
Corticosteroids, a natural hormone that is released when stressed or anxious, causes what unintentional health side effect?
Weight gain. They can suppress your body's metabolism, which causes it to "dump" calories into fat cell stores in the body (usually the gut).
500
A new type of disorder that involves restricting or controlling one's diet, involves anxiety, and also includes an excessive attempt to exercise to alter or sustain a certain body image. Can also involve inaccurate perceptions about one's body.
What is orthorexia nervosa
500
Heavy alcohol usage increases the likelihood of which types of cancer? (Name at least 4)
Mouth, Esophagus, Throat, Liver, and Breast cancers (Yes even in men).
500
The lifespan of turkeys meant for the Thanksgiving dinner table (and those pardoned by the president each year) is about 3 years.
Nope! Turkeys bred in captivity for food only have an expected lifespan of 18 weeks. This is due to their high protein diet and breeding, which increases their "meat" mass. On the inside though, they are still birds with small organs that cannot support their mass over a long period of time.
500
A type of long-term memory in which you are able to recall information, but cannot place where or when you learned it.
Semantic memory.
500
Too much prolonged usage of steroids (as a drug or induced naturally through stress) can cause what life-threatening medical condition? (The biggest danger)
Infections. Since steroids naturally inhibit or suppress (weaken or stop) your immune system response, it takes away your body's ability to fight off normal bacteria and viruses. As a result, any infection will spread incredibly fast and easily, becoming life threatening in a very short amount of time.
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