Stress & the Body
This system activates the “fight-or-flight” response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
A disorder marked by persistent sadness and loss of interest
What is major depressive disorder?
Therapy focused on changing negative thinking patterns.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?
The ability to recover from stress quickly.
What is resilience?
The placebo effect occurs when improvement is due to this.
What is expectation or belief?
The hormone released by the adrenal glands during stress
What is cortisol?
Disorder involving excessive, uncontrollable worry.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
Therapy where a patient talks freely while the therapist listens.
What is psychoanalysis (or talk therapy)?
This type of coping focuses on changing the stressor itself.
What is problem-focused coping?
A group that does not receive treatment in an experiment.
What is the control group?
Hans Selye’s 3-stage model of stress response
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?
Repeated unwanted thoughts and behaviors define this disorder.
What is OCD
Medications like Prozac are used to treat depression and are known as this.
What are antidepressants?
This coping method focuses on managing emotions.
What is emotion-focused coping?
The DSM-5 is used for this purpose.
What is diagnosing mental disorders?
The exhaustion stage occurs when this happens to the body’s resources
What is they are depleted?
Disorder involving flashbacks and trauma after a disturbing event.
What is PTSD?
A treatment using electrical currents for severe depression
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
Poor sleep, diet, and lack of exercise increase risk of this.
What is illness (or poor health)?
A false belief not based in reality is called this.
What is a delusion?
Stress that comes from sudden events like accidents is called this.
What is acute stress?
This disorder involves extreme mood swings between mania and depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
Therapy that gradually exposes someone to their fear.
What is exposure therapy?
The connection between mind and body health is studied in this field.
What is health psychology?
Hearing or seeing things that aren’t there is called this.
What is a hallucination?