Stress
Term for the total amount of stress experienced by an individual at a given time
What is allostatic load?
Primary measure of a person’s adjustment to life-threatening and chronic illness
What is quality of life?
Term/diagnosis when a person is faking or exaggerating a physical problem or illness to obtain disability payments
What is malingering?
What is nociceptor?
Any one of the top 5 most popular games in 2025. [PC/console/multi; MAU; global]
What is: Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, League of Legends, Counter Strike 2?
Neurotransmitter(s) that surge when one is faced with an immediate threat
What are catecholamines (E, NE)?
Measure of the risk-benefit of a particular medical intervention, such as a major surgery, in terms of adjustment
What is__________?
QALY= years lived in perfect health gained
DALY= years lived in perfect health lost
The most common cause of disability in the US
What is back or other musculoskeletal pain?
Length of time one must experience pain for it to be classified as "chronic pain"
What is three months?
NFL team at the top of the standings currently
Who are the Denver Broncos or New England Patriots?
Coping strategies that most commonly lead to higher levels of depression
What are Avoidance and Rumination?
Three social and/or psychological consequences of a major illness, such as cancer
What is___________________?
Inc. risk for depression, anxiety, suicide
Inc. risk of partner leaving/divorcing
Changes in identity (sense of self)Others......
What is Functional Neurological Disorder?
or, Conversion Disorder
Term for when a patient becomes more sensitive to painful stimuli after taking narcotic (opiate) medication for several weeks
What is opiate/opioid-induced hyperalgesia?
Any one of the top 10 songs streamed in the US this week
Go to Spotify Top Songs- USA
General category of coping with stress by reframing it (e.g., "I'm developing all sorts of strengths by going through this.")
What is a COGNITIVE form of coping?
Coping phenomenon that can occur when a patient has a worsening illness trajectory
What is ___________________?
downward social comparisonbenefit-finding
A country that follows the Beveridge model of health care
Medical providers are paid salaries by the government. Government administers the program, which is paid through income tax.
What is______________?
England, Scandinavia, Spain, Cuba, New Zealand, Hong Kong?
Most significant way the MRI of a person who has chronic back pain differs from the MRI of a person who does not have chronic back pain
What is NOTHING?
Country that will ban/block all social media platforms for children under the age of 16, starting tomorrow.
What is Australia?
One emotional, one behavioral, one cognitive, and one physiological response to stress
What is __________________
__________________, __________________,
___________________?
Legal document that every adult should have that communicates general treatment wishes and appoints a medical decision-maker if you can't
What is an Advance Directive?
Living Will + Healthcare ProxyAny two features of the US health care system that make it difficult to generalize from other economic models, such as the free market
What is ______________?
Gov't intervention
Uncertainty
Assymetric knowledge
Most effective model of psychological intervention used with chronic pain patients
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
International organization that created its own "Peace Prize" to award to President Trump, as consolation that he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is FIFA?
Fédération Internationale des Associations de Football