Stress & Illness
The three categories of stressors
What are: catastrophes, significant life changes, and daily hassles?
The two main forms of coping (think ____-focused)
What are: problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping?
Name three symptoms of a major depressive episode.
What are:
•Depressed mood most of the time
•Dramatically reduced interest or enjoyment in activities
•Sig. challenges regulating appetite/weight
•Sig. challenges regulating sleep
•Physical agitation or lethargy
•Feeling low energy
•Feeling worthless or unwarranted guilt
•Problems in thinking, concentrating, or making decisions
•Thinking repetitively of death/suicide
The process of receiving stimuli from the environment.
What is sensation?
Define phonemes
What are: the smallest units of sounds for language?
The personality traits associated with higher percentages of developing coronary heart disease.
What is pessimism and Type A personality?
What are:
•Valuing love over money
•Having a well developed belief system
•Meaningful relationships
•Helping others
•Acting happy
•Exercise, sleep
Name three symptoms of a manic episode
What are:
•Low need for sleep, lower sexual inhibitions, speech is loud and difficult to interrupt, find advice irritating, increased risky behaviors
Name the two systems for processing.
What are: bottom-up processing and top-down processing?
Define the Sapir-Whorf (or linguistic relativity) hypothesis.
What is: our native language shapes our thoughts?
The two main ways (or categories) for appraising an event.
What is as a challenge or as a threat?
The "better bang for your happiness buck."
What is a daily treat?
The book that allows psychologists and psychiatrists to standardize their diagnoses of mental illness.
What is the DSM-5/DSM-5-TR?
When you are able to hear your phone vibrating in a noisy room.
What is the signal detection theory?
Provide characteristics of rational thinking.
What are:
•Comparing positive benefit and negative costs
•Estimating likelihood of uncertain outcomes
•Ignoring distracting, irrelevant information
•Consistent preferences
The three stages/phases of General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
What are: the alarm stage, the resistance stage, and the exhaustion stage?
Social factors important to consider related to health outcomes.
What are: SES, relationships, culture, and religion?
What are: stable, global, and internal?
The % used in the difference threshold
What is 50%
*Think heuristic
What is the availability heuristic?
The name associated with the fight-or-flight adaptive response.
Who is Cannon?
The topic/term that we talked about in class that leads to higher loneliness and risk of death equivalent to smoking.
What is social isolation?
Describe acute and chronic schizophrenia.
What is:
Acute schizophrenia--rapid development, following intense event, more likely to recover
Chronic schizophrenia--symptoms may come on gradually, worsen over time, harder to treat, more likely to persist throughout one's lifetime.
Our ability to desensitize ourselves to loud noises, bright lights, etc. if we have experienced them enough.
What is sensory adaptation?
Thinking that is described as intuitive, automatic, effortless.
What is System 1?