Health psych
The WHO's definition of ______ includes social, mental, and physical considerations.
Health
Short-term illnesses or disease that are not chronic or long-term, and are easier to cure, are known by this adorable term.
ACUTE disorders
BONUS: A statue of this person, the hardest working man in showbusiness and the Godfather of Soul, is in Downtown Augusta.
James Brown
___________ are the leading cause of premature deaths in the USA.
Accidents
Binge eating, and all types of relapse, are most often triggered by...
negative emotions/stressful experiences
A community center offers low-cost or free exercise classes to senior citizens and kids. This is a type of _______ promotion.
Health
The number of deaths due to a disease is known as a _________ rate.
Mortality
Antabuse, as we discussed in class and in the book, is a medicine that makes people sick when they drink alcohol. What type of response is this? Conditioned or unconditioned?
Conditioned
________ engineering efforts are structural attempts to change behaviors to improve health.
Social
Tolerance
Psychosomatic medicine believes that physical disorders can be caused by ___________ conflicts.
emotional or psychological
The number of infections due to a type of disease or illness is known as a __________ rate.
Morbidity
In the CBT perspective, it is not the Spider that scares you, but it is _____________ that makes you scared.
your beliefs about the spider, what you tell yourself about the spider, your thoughts about spiders, etc.
The stage of sleep marked by beta waves is important for
consolidating memories
In the USA the most common cause of smoking-related mortality is...
lung cancer
BONUS: This is the 3rd planet from the sun.
Earth
_________ is the study of frequency, distribution, and causes of diseases in a population.
Epidemiology
Operant conditioning changes behaviors by using positive and negative __________.
Reinforcements
A dangerous pattern of successive cycles of dieting that results in weight loss and weight gain is known as __________ dieting.
yo-yo
BONUS: This schools was formerly known as Georgia Regents University.
Augusta University
The belief that health is achieved by attending to biological, psychological, and social aspects of the person is called the ______________ model.
Biopsychosocial
Messages or campaigns to change unhealthy behaviors (smoking/drug abuse) are more likely to have an impact if they produce ____________
Fear or psychological distress
In the transtheoretical model of behavior change, a person who has no intentions of changing their negative behaviors is in the _______________ stage of change.
Precontemplative
An adjustable gastric rubber band inserted surgically around the top of the stomach to reduce the stomach's capacity for food is known as a __________ surgery.
lap band
This syndrome results after exposure to extreme stress that overwhelms one's ability to cope, and includes numbness, hypervigilance, sleep disturbance, impaired concentration, etc.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder