Therapies
What is the treatment of emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems called?
Psychotherapy
What is the negative emotional state occurring in response to events that are perceived as taxing or exceeding a person’s resources or ability to cope?
Stress
What is the rapidly occurring chain of internal physical reactions that prepare people either to fight or take flight from an immediate threat called?
Fight or Flight Response
What is a way to reduce stress for finals?
Get more sleep. Schedule studying time with breaks between. Teach material to a friend. Exercise.
What is the use of medications, electroconvulsive therapy, or other medical treatments to treat symptoms associated with psychological disorders called?
Biomedical Therapy
What are events or situations that are perceived as harmful, threatening, or challenging?
Stressors
What is a symptom of acute stress?
Increased heart rate, blood pressure, blood flow, and respiration. Digestion is inhibited. Pupils dilate.
What branch of psychology studies how biological, behavioral, and social factors influence health, illness, medical treatment, and health-related behaviors?
Health Psychology
What is the group of psychotherapies that focus on cognitive aspects of behavior called?
What are everyday minor events that annoy and upset people might be an important source of stress?
What produces specialized white blood cells that protect body from viruses, bacteria, and tumor cells?
Immune system
What is the technique called that involves a system for strengthening desired behaviors through positive reinforcement in a very structured environment and used for behavior modification in group settings (prisons, classrooms, hospitals)?
Token Economy
What is the type of therapy where the person gradually and repeatedly relives frightening experience under controlled condition to overcome fear and establish adaptive beliefs?
Exposure therapy
What is an unhealthy condition caused by chronic, prolonged work stress?
Burnout
What are the hormones released by the adrenal cortex called?
Corticosteroids
Who was the first behavioral therapist that founded counterconditioning?
Mary Cover Jones
What is a form of therapy developed by Sigmund Freud and is based on his theory of personality called?
Psychoanalysis
What is it called when an individual tries to change circumstances, or our interpretation of circumstances, to make them less threatening?
Coping
What are the repeated, duplicate DNA sequences that are found at the very tips of chromosomes called?
Telomeres
What type of therapy integrates cognitive and behavioral techniques based on the assumption that thoughts, moods, and behaviors are interrelated?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy