Stress and Health
Having this is likely to cause headaches, hypertension, and immune suppression.
What is stress?
This type of coping focuses on solving the issue that causes stress.
What is problem-focused coping?
People's tendency to be helpful when in a good mood.
What is the Feel-Good-Do-Good Phenomenon?
This manual is used by the American Psychiatric Association to classify mental disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-V?
This perspective focuses on unconscious thoughts and experiences as causes of mental disorders.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
Name one phase of the General Adaptation Syndrome.
What is alarm, resistance, and exhaustion?
This theory explains the sequence of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion in response to stress.
What is the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life.
What is subjective well-being?
A person's level of dysfunction, perception of distress, or deviation from the social norm may lead to being diagnosed with this.
What is a psychological disorder?
Which perspective focuses on physiological or genetic issues as causes of mental disorders?
What is the biological perspective?
This term refers to stressful experiences from childhood that can impact health across a lifespan.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
This type of coping involves managing how one reacts to stress rather than solving the issue.
What is emotion-focused coping?
Name two character strength and/or virtue associated with positive psychology.
What is wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence?
Diagnosing psychological disorders requires specialized training and requires this to prove a diagnoses.
What is evidence?
A historically significant perspective that emphasized a person's growth potential.
What is humanistic psychology?
Name the theory that suggests some people react to stress by caring for others and seeking social connections.
What is the tend-and-befriend theory?
Give an example of an emotion-focused coping strategy.
What is deep breathing, meditation, or taking medication?
Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises.
The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself.
What is relative deprivation?
This perspective considers behaviors and mental processes that reduce the likelihood of survival as causes of mental disorders.
What is the evolutionary perspective?
This is a positive type of stress; its opposite is known as distress.
What is eustress?
Immune suppression means you are more likely to be inflicted by this when suffering from chronic stress.
What is ill/sick.
Name three sports that include the position of guard.
What is football, basketball, and hockey?
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained professional and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
What is psychotherapy?
According to this perspective, mental disorders are due to maladaptive thoughts or beliefs.
What is the cognitive perspective?