Theories/Perspectives
Biological Person
Psychological Person
Psychosocial Person
Spiritual Person
100
Understanding human behavior to be the result of interactions of biological, psychological, and social systems. -multidisciplinary approach -transactional approach -biopsychosocial approach -life course approach
What is the biopyschosocial approach?
100
Public health experts have noted an association between poor health outcomes and low income, low education, unsanitary housing, etc. True or False?
True
100
A person's conscious or preconscious thinking processes: -egocentrism -cognition -affect -emotion
What is cognition?
100
When Felicity started a new job, she was apprehensive because of the possibility of being rejected by her new co-workers. This category of psychological stress is ____.
What is threat?
100
A person's search for a sense of meaning and morally fulfilling relationships between oneself, others, and the universe.
What is spirituality?
200
A perspective that is concerned with how internal processes such as needs, drives, and emotions motivate human behavior. -humanistic -psychodynamic -developmental -systems
What is psychodynamic perspective?
200
A biological system that is made up of the heart and the blood circulatory system.
What is the cardiovascular system?
200
In the theory of multiple intelligence, the brain is best understood as: -central unit that houses separate cognitive faculties. -the mechanism for social learning. -single cognitive system. -generating the capacity for moral intelligence.
What is a central unit that houses separate cognitive faculties?
200
When Marcus returns to his second year of college he may feel more excited and confident about trying to interact with his classmates. The category of psychological stress that he is experiencing is ____.
What is challenge?
200
The patterning of spiritual beliefs and practice into social institutions, with community support and traditions maintained over time.
What is religion?
300
Understanding human behavior as changing configurations of person and environment over time. -deductive reasoning approach -life course approach -multidimensional approach
What is the multidimensional approach?
300
A biological system that is made up of organs and cells that work together to defend the body against disease.
What is the immune system?
300
A feeling state that is characterized by our appraisal of a stimulus, by changes in bodily sensations and by displays of expressive gestures: -mood -affect -cognition -emotion
What is emotion?
300
When Marcus went to college, he avoided interaction with his classmates which led him to feel rejected. The category of psychological stress that he is experiencing is ____. -harm -threat -challenge
What is harm?
300
A universal aspect of human existence which is an integral, centering process underlying the formation of beliefs, values and meanings. -religion -faith -spirituality -ideology
What is faith?
400
Individuals who hold power in the family but little power in the labor market is an example of the: -social behavioral -conflict -social constructionist -systems
What is the conflict perspective?
400
A biological system that plays an important role in a person's growth, metabolism, development, learning, and memory.
What is the endocrine system?
400
A common cognitive distortion that involves viewing experiences as ALL good or ALL bad and failing to understand that experiences can be a mixture of both. -magnification -overgeneralization -absolute thinking
What is absolute thinking?
400
Cathy recently separated from her husband of 30 years and is facing the possibility of a divorce. She has always been a person who positively copes with most obstacles in her life but is very depressed and overwhelmed. Her current psychological state is ____. -stress -traumatic stress -role strain -crisis
What is crisis?
400
Name one take-away you learned from our religious panel.
What is YOUR ANSWER?
500
The assumption that learning takes places as individuals interact with their environments. -social behavioral -psychodynamic -developmental -social constructionist
What is the social behavioral perspective?
500
A biological system that provides the structure and processes for communicating sensory, and perceptual information, and integrating incoming information throughout the body.
What is the nervous system?
500
The common cognitive distortion that involves accepting the blame for negative events without sufficient evidence.
What is personalization?
500
Sally recently experienced a date rape that has left her feeling helpless and terrified. Her current psychological state is ____. -stress -traumatic stress -role strain -crisis
What is traumatic stress?
500
Name one component of your self-care plan.
What is YOUR ANSWER?
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