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What is a Good Samaritan Law?
A law that protect individuals who provide reasonable assistance to those in need during emergencies, shielding them from civil liability for unintentional harm or injury.
Explain the bystander effect
The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present
An event or condition that causes stress.
What is a stressor?
What is Emotion-focused coping?
Efforts to change or reduce the negative emotions associated with stress.
Emotion-focused coping would likely be a better method than problem-focused coping for dealing with which of the following stressors?
a. terminal cancer
b. poor grades in school
c. unemployment
d. divorce
a. terminal cancer
What are daily hassles?
Minor annoyances that are part of our everyday lives.
What was the theorist's name who conducted the obedience study?
Stanley Milgram
What are the results of having social support?
Protective impact on health to such an extent that
help people with serious illnesses live longer
boosts the immune system and reduces blood pressure
What are Type A and Type B personalities? Which is more prone to heart disease?
Type A - ambitious, aggressive, and competitive
Type B - laid back, flexible, and patient
Type A is more prone to heart disease
Relative to those with low levels of social support, individuals with high levels of social support______.
a. are more likely to develop asthma
b. tend to have less perceived control
c. are more likely to develop cardiovascular disorders
d. tend to tolerate stress well
d. tend to tolerate stress well
What is the biopsychosocial model in Health Psychology?
Looks into the biology, psychology and social factors of someone's problem.
What kind of social influence is the result of a change in behavior due to fit in with a particular group.
normative social influence
What is self-efficacy?
The belief that you can perform adequately in a given situation
Why is facial symmetry evolutionarily attractive?
It implies health/no diseases
In Milgram’s Obedience original experiment, what percent of people administered the highest, deadly shock?
65%
According to social exchange theory, humans want to maximize the ________ and minimize the ________ in relationships.
2. benefits; costs
What are Sternberg's 3 components of love?
Passion, commitment and intimacy
What is the fundamental attribution error?
The tendency to overestimate disposition (internal factors) and underestimate the situation when explaining behavior
Explain Asch's normative studies
Participant were in a group with other accomplices/confederates of the experiment and each were asked to identify which two lines out of three are the same length. When all the accomplices/confederates said the same wrong answer, thirty-seven percent of the participants went along with the wrong answer.
Which of the following is NOT one of the components of happiness?
a. using our talents to help improve the lives of others
b. learning new skills
c. regular pleasurable experiences
d. identifying and using our talents to enrich our lives
b. learning new skills
At which stage of Selye’s general adaptation syndrome is a person especially vulnerable to illness?
1. exhaustion
Who was Kitty Genovese?
The young woman murdered in front of her apartment building in 1964 that led to the research on helping and bystander effect.
The General Adaption Syndrome is a theory that suggests stress responses occur in stages. What are these stages in proper order?
Alarm reaction, resistance, exhaustion
In order to cope with the amount of work you need to do for all your classes, you use a planner to organize, you schedule out time in your days to do work, and you prioritize what needs to be done first. This is called
Problem-focused coping
Researchers have identified a number of factors that are related to happiness. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
a. age
b. annual income up to $75,000
c. physical attractiveness
d. marriage
c. physical attractiveness