Stress & Health
This is the main stress hormone.
Cortisol
This sustained activity increases heart and lung fitness and also helps alleviate depression and anxiety
Aerobic exercise
This was the concept that psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured.
The medical model
The different kinds of therapies used to treat mental disorders may be divided into two basic types. What are they?
Psychotherapy and biomedical therapy
This technique attempts to treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
Exposure therapy
What part of the nervous system is most closely involved in stress responses?
The fact that religiously active people tend to live longer and have superior health outcomes has been called what?
The Faith Factor
This disorder is marked by excessive and uncontrollable worry that persists for six months or more but has no obvious cause.
Generalized anxiety disorder
This kind of psychotherapy is now very rare because it was costly, time-consuming, and had little empirical support.
Psychoanalysis
Removing or destroying brain tissue in order to change behavior
Psychosurgery
Attempting to alleviate stress directly -- by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor
Problem-focused coping
The repeated finding that people who are happy are more likely to give money or volunteer their time is known as the...
Feel-good, do-good phenomenon
This disorder is characterized by a state of intense hopelessness that lasts for at least two weeks
Major Depressive Disorder
This form of therapy still deals with early life events and important relationship as well as unconscious drivers and motivations, but does not include much discussion of the id, ego, and superego.
Psychodynamic therapy
Many antidepressants work by increasing the availability of which neurotransmitters (2 answers, only give one)
Serotonin and norepinephrine
What are the three stages of General Adaptation Syndrome?
Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion
This is our tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. It's the reason why winning the lottery wouldn't make you happy for the rest of your life.
Adaptation-level phenomenon
Of the disorders that we've discussed, this one has the highest degree of heritability.
Schizophrenia
This technique is a significant aspect of humanist aka client-centered therapy.
Active listening
The necessary bond between a client and their psychologist so that therapy can be effective
Therapeutic alliance
The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes affect the immune system and resulting health
Psychoneuroimmunology
In no particular order, what are the three pillars of positive psychology?
positive well-being, positive traits, positive groups
This is a state characterized by motor behaviors ranging from physical stupor, to senseless, compulsive actions like rocking.
Catatonia
This approach the treatment combines techniques from various forms of psychotherapy
The eclectic approach
This class of drugs works by increasing the activity of serotonin in the brain by blocking reuptake. (Give the acronym)
SSRIs