Stress
Effects of Stress
Types of Therapy
Biomedical Therapy
Random
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These are the principle types of stress
What is Frustration, Conflict, Change, Pressure
100
A good social support system and positive attitude would have this effect on immune activity.
What is increased levels of immune activity? On the flip side- a depressed state can negatively impact your immune activity- making you more susceptible to illness.
100
"Talk Therapy" describes this type of therapy.
What is insight?
100
This drug is used to control mood swings in patients with bipolar disorder.
What is Lithium?
100
These are two issues that have arisen as a result of deinstitutionalization.
What is the revolving door of patients and an increase in mentally ill who are homeless?
200
You want to ask out that new attractive AP Psych student, but are afraid to risk rejection. You are experiencing this type of conflict.
What is Approach-Avoidance? Approach because they might say yes, Avoidance because you might be rejected.
200
Stress is an important factor in contributing to impaired task performance because it does this.
What is disrupt attention? It is hard to concentrate when you have stressful thoughts consuming your focus.
200
Therapy that emphasizes the importance of learning in treatment describes this approach to therapy.
What is behavior?
200
Antipsychotic drugs look to do this
What is reduce psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations?
200
Since the 1950s the population of mental institutions has done this.
What is dropped significantly? 1950s 550,000 people in institutions 1990s 70,000
300
Some evolutionary psychologists suggest that women differ in their response to stressful situations. Instead of a fight-or-flight response, women may instead exhibit this response.
What is tend and befriend response? More emphasis placed on caring and providing help, instead of fighting and fleeing.
300
This behavior is described as being intensely competitive, impatient, and at times angry and hostile.
What is Type A behavior/personality?
300
Training to relax when when confronted with anxiety-arousal stimuli is an example of this therapeutic approach.
What is systematic desensitization?
300
This medication is used to treat severe anxiety.
What is Xanax or Valium?
300
According to the Featured Study, this type of treatment has the lowest relapse rate.
What is a combination of drug therapy and interpersonal therapy?
400
You are doing poorly in your AP Psych class. You are dangerously close to flunking and yet you feel confident that you are going to ace the final without any help. You are exhibiting this type of defense mechanism.
What is denial of reality?
400
The goal of the relaxation response is this.
What is decreasing emotional and physiological arousal?
400
This type of therapy teaches individuals to detect and evaluate their negative, self-defeating thoughts and statements.
What is cognitive therapy?
400
This type of biomedical treatment, once popular in treating psychological disorders, is now only used in the most severe cases.
What is lobotomy of the prefrontal cortex?
400
List a problem with managed health care in regards to access for mental health services.
What is Barriers to Access, "medically necessary care", those who are denied access are less likely to complain, lack of cultural diversity/language barriers.
500
You and your sister both wake up feeling under the weather with flu-like symptoms. While you get ready for school, your sister is begging your mom to take her to the hospital. What traits would explain your sister's reaction?
What is a higher level of anxiety/neuroticism?
500
Physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and lowered self-efficacy attributed to chronic work-related stress is described as this.
What is burnout?
500
Because Shirley has an unconscious sexual attraction to her father, she behaves seductively toward her therapist. Shirley's behavior is most likely a form of this.
What is transference?
500
This therapy uses electric shock to produce a cortical seizure and is accompanied by convulsions.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
500
Zimbardo: Creepy or attractive?
What is definitely creepy?
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