Coping Strategies
This is the type of exercise, characterized by sustained, oxygen-consuming exertion, that increases heart and lung fitness.
What is aerobic exercise?
This subfield of psychology explores the impact of psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors on health and wellness
What is health psychology?
This disorder is characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts, and actions, known as compulsions.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
This group of disorders is characterized by an enduring sad, empty, or irritable mood, along with physical and cognitive changes
What are depressive disorders?
This coping strategy involves attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring the stressor and attending to emotional needs
What is emotion-focused coping?
Practicing this appreciative emotion helps people enjoy their present and become optimistic about their future.
What is gratitude?
This concept describes Hans Selye’s model of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
Excessive and uncontrollable worry that lasts for six months or more and is often free-floating defines this anxiety disorder
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
This less intense, but prolonged type of depression requires a depressed mood on more days than not for at least two years
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder (formerly dysthymia)?
Julian Rotter’s studies identified this term for the perception that outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate
What is external locus of control?
This reflective practice involves attending to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner and can strengthen brain region connections.
What is mindfulness meditation?
Individuals described as competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone are characterized by this personality type, which is correlated with coronary heart disease.
What is Type A personality?
The fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one may experience a loss of control and panic is known as this specific phobia
What is Agoraphobia?
The hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgment is common, associated with bipolar disorders, is called this
What is mania?
This condition occurs when humans and other animals learn passive resignation after being unable to avoid repeated aversive events
What is learned helplessness?
The link between faith and health, sometimes called the "faith factor," is possibly explained because religion promotes these three beneficial factors. (Name one)
What are self-control, social support, and positive emotions?
In the resistance stage of Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome, bodily resources maintain high levels to meet the challenge, but over time, they begin to do this.
What is dwindle (or become depleted)?
According to conditioning principles, reinforcement helps maintain learned fears because compulsive behaviors are negatively reinforced by the removal of this adverse stimulus
What is anxiety?
The social-cognitive perspective identifies this thinking pattern—a compulsive fretting or overthinking of problems and their causes—as a contributor to depression
What is rumination?
Name three distinct benefits of being more optimistic, aside from managing conflict constructively.
What are better grades, less fatigue, less illness, or better moods?
Explain three distinct ways aerobic exercise helps manage stress and improve well-being.
What are boosting mood, enabling muscle relaxation, producing sounder sleep, producing neurogenesis, or increasing mood lifting neurotransmitters such as endorphins and serotonin? (Any three)
Prolonged stress does not cause cancer, but it can affect the growth of cancer cells by suppressing this bodily system.
What is the immune system?
Besides haunting memories and nightmares, name three additional symptoms that characterize Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that linger for 4 weeks or more after a traumatic experience
What are hypervigilance, avoidance of trauma-related stimuli, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, or insomnia? (Any three)
The neurotransmitters norepinephrine and serotonin are often affected during mood episodes; norepinephrine is often increased during this state, while serotonin is reduced during depression.
What is mania (or a manic state)?
Name two specific physiological effects of social support that promote good health.
What are having a calming effect, improving sleep, reducing blood pressure, or fostering stronger immune system functioning? (Any two)