Unit 2 Part 1
The branch of psychology that studies how biological, behavioral, and social factors influence health, illness, medical treatment, and health-related behaviors is called:
What is Health Psychology?
Individualistic cultures tend to use_____________ coping strategies
What are problem focused coping strategies?
We build this up to deal with stress; varying by individual
What is Resilience?
According to Carl Jung, this part of the unconscious mind reflects human evolutionary history and is common to all people.
What is the collective unconscious?
This type of personality is associated with being rigid, goal focused and potentially hostile
What is Type A personality?
_____ is a negative emotional state occurring in response to events that are perceived as taxing or exceeding a person's resources or ability to cope.
What is Stress ?
Collectivist cultures tend to use_____________ coping strategies
What are Emotion Focused Coping Strategies?
This type of stress is involved when adapting to a new culture
What is Aculturative Stress?
A projective test of personality consisting of various random ink blots; the most famous of projective tests.
What is the Rorschach
The death Instinct of the ID
What is the Thanatos
During the _____ stage of the general adaptation syndrome, the body’s energy reserves become depleted, leading to physical disorders and, potentially, death.
What is Exhaustion?
This type of emotion focused coping strategy can be positive or negative and has "divine" influences
What is religious coping?
This part of the personality, according to Freud, is referred to as the pleasure principal
What is the ID?
Carl Rodgers said that the basic human motive is to achieve this?
What is Self actualization?
The most common ego defense mechanism
What is Repression?
Short repeated DNA sequences that protect the genetic data in the chromosomes are called:
What are Telomeres?
Jenna was abused by her father as a child before her parents got divorced. She has no recollection of this abusive relationship, but now has trouble forming healthy adult relationships with males her age. Which type of ego defense mechanism is Jenna using.
What is Repression?
If fixated at this stage of Freud's psycho-sexual development, one may tale up smoking in adulthood
What is the Oral stage
This is a relatively stable, enduring predisposition to behave in a certain way.
What is a trait?
Various figures, both male and female, in our collective unconscious?
What is an archetype?
The events or situations that are perceived as harmful, threatening, or challenging
What are Stressors?
These two body systems are irrepressible in handling the stress response?
What is the are the Endocrine and Sympathetic nervous systems?
This unconscious process is an attempt to reduce anxiety when the ID and Superego are in conflict and can manifest in a variety of ways
What is an ego defense mechanism?
The three stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
What are Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion?
The notion that our self concept and messages that we receive from others match
What is Congruence?