Stress
Substance Abuse
Obesity
Health Promotion
Health Promotion cont. (SLO 9)
100
These are any event, real or imagined, cognitive, biological or environmental, that leads to stress.
What are 'stressors'
100
This can lead to a myriad of mental, social and physical dysfunctions such as brain shrinkage, liver disease, strokes, tremors, etc.
What is 'alcoholism'
100
This term refers to the notion that children learn to be obese
What is "second hand obesity"
100
The Health Belief Model put forth by Rosenstock assumes people will engage in healthy behaviour if they understand that negative health problems will arise if they don't...thus it assumes we are this kind of thinker.
What is 'rational'?
100
This approach to health promotion utilizes an Evidence-Based Treatment approach.
What is 'Measurement of Outcomes Approach'?
200
Stress is a deeply personal experience and involves three components: physiological reaction, cognitive reaction and this type of expression.
What is 'behavioural'
200
Lingford-Hughes used brain imagine technologies to find that alcoholics had fewer of the receptors for which neurotransmitter (compared with non-alcoholics).
What is GABA
200
While there is aggressive fast food promotion by food companies, there are also positive role models such as this famous UFC athlete who is an advocate of a diet based on the consumption of fresh fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers, nuts and legumes while avoiding meat and excess salt. (Too bad his diet and tips for youngsters is not widely known)
Who is "Randy Couture"?
200
This term refers to the phenomenon of not caring about one's health or the health of those you care for
What is 'health apathy'
200
This awesome country's health minister, Marc Lalonde, proposed a new 'health field' concept to health promotion which involved looking at 4 fields which determine an individual's health: environment, lifestyle, biomedical and ______. (So there are 2 things to answer here)
What is 'Canada' and 'healthcare services'
300
This terms refers to the interaction between psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems of the human body.
What is 'psychoneuroimmunology'
300
Give 2 statistics related to alcoholism and health
(answers will vary) Ex. 1/2 deaths in Russia between ages 15-54 are a result of alcohol 9000 deaths in UK per year resulting from alcohol-related diseases 2x more men are alcoholics than women - 17% of men and 8% women will be alcoholic
300
David Kessler (former FDA commissioner) argues that we've become 'conditioned overeaters' because of food engineering. Food is manufactured in such a way to help individuals reach this.
What is "bliss point"
300
Otto and Aratani (2006) found that the banning of this from schools led to improved health of students in LA
What are soft drinks and junk food from cafeterias and vending machines
300
This is an area where people not only spend a significant amount of time but it can also influence mental, social and economic well-being. Thus it is a focused area for health promotion.
What is 'the workplace'?
400
Hochschild et al. carried out a study on 'emotional labour' - as related to work stress. How did she explain stress and anxiety?
- Need to suppress or fake our emotions at work and this leads to 'emotional dissonance' (where we feel false or hypocritical) and this leads to stress and anxiety
400
Give three criticisms of Alcoholics Anonymous as a strategy/treatment for alcoholism.
(answers vary)
400
This strategy for preventing obesity involves placing surcharges on processed, fatty, unhealthy foods.
What are 'fat taxes'?
400
This theory assumes that intention is the best predictor of behaviour and the theory has been used in the development of psychological research.
What is 'Theory of Reasoned Action' (later became 'Theory of Planned Behaviour')?
400
For health promotion to work it has to produce these two things.
What is 'cognitive and emotional dissonance'?
500
This strategy created by Meichenbaum, aims to help people cope with stress. (Explain it).
What is "Stress Inoculation Training"
500
This method of treating alcoholism uses naltrexone which reduces one's cravings for alcohol by removing the positive consequences of alcohol (like endorphins)
What is "The Sinclair Method"
500
What does Elkins et al. (2005) say about those who undergo GBP surgery in the month following the procedure?
- More likely to suffer depression as a result of the role food plays in their emotional outlook
500
Bandura proposed this theory which supports the 'Theory of Planned Behaviour' in that it is involved with how much perceived behavioural control a person has and how capable a person feels.
What is 'Self-Efficacy Theory (SET)'?
500
The inherent assumption of cognitive dissonance is that people are driven to reduce conflicting feelings or thoughts by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours OR by doing this.
What is 'justifying or rationalizing them'?
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