Physiology
Chemical messengers released by the endocrine system?
What are hormones?
Matts boss keeps giving him overtime even when Matt doesn't want to work overtime because he has school. This becomes too stressful and Matt decides to quit. This is an example of?
What is problem focused coping?
Total number of sick people from a particular health condition is?
What is morbidity?
Initial view of a stressor as a threat or challenge is known as?
What is primary appraisal?
Which variable is measured in a psychological experiment?
WHat is dependent?
Which part of the nervous system helps restore homeostasis after a threat?
What is parasympathetic?
Megan has a stressful job and comes home to journal to express her emotions after a long day. This is an example of?
What is emotion focused coping?
Total number of cases of the coronavirus since the beginning is an example of?
What is prevalence?
Dealing with a difficult co worker on a daily basis would be which type of stress?
What is chronic stress?
WHat is primary prevention?
Brains special capacity for repair and adaptation is known as?
What is neuroplasticity
Coping mechanism where emotional responses are inhibited?
What is repressive coping?
Study of the cause or origin of a particular disease?
What is etiology?
What are three stages of GAS model?
Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
WHich type of research looks at the strength of relationship between two variables?
What is correlational?
Which part of your brain is the regulatory command center helping attempt to restore homeostasis?
What is hypothalamus?
One's tendency toward optimist or pessimism is known as?
What is explanatory style?
Study of the way a disease speads through a population is known as?
What is epidemiology?
One's cumulative stress level at any given time?
WHat is allostatic load?
Set of conditions including high blood pressure, high blood sugar and abdominal obesity causing other health issues
What is metabolic syndrome?
What is study of psychology, immunity, and body?
What is psychoneuroimmunology?
What are three components of psychological hardiness?
Control, Commitment, Challenge
Model of health behavior looking at persons attitude toward the behavior, subjective norm of behavior, and perceived degree of control over the behavior
What is theory of planned behavior?
Influence of stress combined with biological factors in inducing a problematic health condition is also known as?
WHat is diathesis stress model?
What is the health psychology model primarily used in this course?
Biopsychosocial?