Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
PSY101 Chap. 11-13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Explain health psychology | A subfield of psychology looking at psychological factors and physical health |
| Define stressor, stress, adjustment | A stressor is any environmental demand such as stress or adjustment. Stress creates a state of tension or threat. Adjustment requires change or adaptation. |
| Know all the different categories of stressors | Change, every day hassles, pressure, frustration, conflict, self imposed conflict |
| Explain approach/Approach conflict | Two conflicting decisions |
| Explain avoidance avoidance conflict | Passive conflict |
| Explain that approach/avoidance conflict | Incompatible demands or goals |
| Traits of people with an internal locus of control | Optimistic, hardiness, resilient |
| Direct coping with stress | Intentional efforts to change an uncomfortable situation |
| Defensive coping with stress | A form of self deception that they are not really threatened or do not really want something they cannot get |
| Explain fight or flight | Cannons theory- The physiological response mobilizes the body to respond to external threats by attacking or fleeing |
| General adaptation syndrome | Alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion |
| Explain type a and type B personalities | Type a is competitive urgent and constantly striving therefore can link to hostility high blood pressure or high heart rate. Type a B is depressing has negative emotions suffers from social inhibition and can link to coronary heart disease (cortisol) |
| Define PTSD | Post Trumatic stress disorder |
| What are the effects of stress | Unemployment, divorce, separation, B Reeve meant, catastrophes, combative |
| Factors leading to a healthy lifestyle | Diet, exercise, avoid high-risk behaviors, humor |
| Describe the different perspectives on psychological disorders | 1.Society says that behavior is unexpected 2. Individual thinks behavior leads to unhappiness 3. Mental health professional says person is unable to function well in life |
| Explain biological model of abnormal behavior | Uses Nero imaging, makes psychoactive drugs, analyzes specific genes |
| Explain psychoanalytic model of abnormal behavior | Unconscious internal conflicts which can usually be traced to childhood |
| Explain cognitive â behavioral model of abnormal behavior | Learning maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving |
| Explain diathesis â stress model of abnormal behavior | People tend to exhibit the disorder when particularly affected by stress |
| Explain system theory of abnormal behavior | Risk factors combined to produce psychological disorders |
| Define insanity | A legal term applied to defendants who do not know right from wrong or are unable to control their behavior |
| What is the DSM | Manual that describes and classifies the various kinds of psychological disorders |
| Define mood disorders | Disturbances in mood or prolonged emotional state |
| Define depression | Being overwhelmed with sadness |
| Define clinical depression | Intense sadness may last for several months, or less intense sadness for two or more years |
| Define bipolar disorder | Alternating periods of mania and depression sometimes with periods of normal mood intervening |
| Define anxiety | Characterized by extreme or unexplained anxiety and behavior motivated to avoid the anxiety |
| Define phobias | And intense or paralyzing fear of something |
| Define a panic disorder | Re-current panic attacks or sudden experiences of intense fear or terror without reasonable cause |
| Define generalized anxiety disorder | Prolonged vague but intense fear's |
| Define obsessive compulsive disorder's or OCD | Disturbing thoughts or senseless rituals often developed to keep anxiety under control |
| Define somatoform disorder's | Apparent physical illness where there is no organic bases |
| Define disassociative identity disorder's | Separating personalities involving memory loss and a real butt temporary change and identity and the rare, multiple personalities |
| Define narcissistic | Exaggerated sense of self importance and needs constant admiration |
| Define borderline | Instability in self image, mood, and interpersonal relationships |
| Define antisocial personality disorder | A pattern of violent, criminal, or unethical and exploitative behavior and an inability to feel affection for others |
| Define schizophrenia | Severe disturbances of thoughts, communications, and emotions. Out of touch with reality. Hallucinations. Delusions. Paranoid. False believes about reality. |
| Define psychotherapy | Psychological techniques to treat personality and behavior disorders |
| Define insight therapy | Gives people a better awareness and understanding of their feelings, motivations, and actions. Use talking to help people overcome and adjust. Psychoanalysis, client centered therapy, Gestalt therapy |
| Define behavior therapy | All behaviors are learned. Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, modeling |
| Define cognitive therapy | People can change their distorted ideas about themselves and the world so they can also change their problem behaviors and make their lives more enjoyable. Stressinoculation, rational â emotive, Becks cognitive therapy |
| Define group therapies | Clients meet regularly to interact and help one another achieve insight into their feelings and behavior. Family therapy, couple therapy, self- help groups |
| Define biological treatments | Drug therapies, electro convulsive therapy, psychosurgery |
| Define deinstitutionalization | Many patients stop taking medication, resulting in the return of psychotic symptoms and homelessness. Poorly funded community mental health centers have proved in adequate. Sees serious challenges. |
Created by:
Jantzen Fenn
Popular Psychology sets