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buffer by
Research shows that stress is _____ social support. a. buffered by b. increased by c. unrelated to d. caused mostly by
e. easy going
Which of the following adjectives best describes the Type B personality? a. hard driving b. hurried c. angry d. competitive b. easy going
tension
Mary has a steady, aching, non-throbbing headache on both sides of her head toward the back of her head. This most likely is a _____ headache. a. classic migraine b. aura migraine c. tension d. obsession
adj disorder
Billy was admitted to several graduated schools but wanted to get into harvard. he became depressed and anxious over the monthes since he did not get in. what is this reaction A. adj disorder B. social phobia C. PDS D. general adaption disorder
OCD
ted stresses that he does not lock the doors,closes the windows turn off the stove. Generally he is anxious so he must go back home to check. he has problem with rechecking he is late at work. what is this? a) generalized anxiety disorder b) panic c) OCD d) conversion e)simple phobia
true
Panic and obsessive-compulsive disorders are sometimes treated successfully with antidepressant medication. a. true b. false
humanistic existential
According to which theoretical perspective is anxiety caused by suppression of and alienation from our genuine selves (best answer)? a. psychodynamic b. cognitive c. humanistic-existential d. behavioral
enter increasingly stressful social situations and remain there until their urge to escape has lessened
in exposure therapy for social phobias clients are instructed to do what:
in exposure therapy for social phobias clients are instructed to do what:
severity of the trauma and degree of exposure to the trauma b. availability of social support c. differences in the person’s neurobiological responsiveness to traumatic experiences d. all of the above
involves no memory disturbance
Depersonalization disorder differs from other dissociative disorders in that it a)involves no memory disturbance b)has long lasting sym c) produce little distress for the person d) almost alway trigger a panic attack
quite suddenly
A dissociative fugue state usually ends: a)quite suddenlys c)only after months of psychotherapy b)gradually overthe course of a yr b) only after month on medication
all of the above
Somatization disorder tends to: a)found more freq in women c) be a life long disorder b)begin typically in adolescent or young adults d) all of the above
adj disorder
a maladaptive reaction identified stressor that develops witin a few months of the onset of the stressor one or more identifiable stresor ex- having trouble concentrating on your schoolwork following the breakup of a romantic relationship and your grades are slipping can seek therapy…
endocrine system
the system of ductless glands that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstrme
hormones
substance secreted by endocrine glands that regulate body functions and promote growth and dev
immune system
the body's system of defense against disease
general adaptation syndrome
descrime a common biological response to pattern to prolonnged or excessive stress consists of three stages-alarm reaction, the resistance stage and the exhaustion stage
alarm reaction
the first stage of general adaption syndrome charcterized by heightened sympathetic activity
fight-or flight reaction
the inborn tendency to respond to a threat by either fighting or fleeing
resistance stage
the second stage of the GAS involveing the body's attempt to withstand prolonged stress and preserve resources
exhaustion stage
the third sage of the GAS characteristic by lowered resistance, increased parasympathetic activity and eventual physical deterioration
acculturative stress
pressure to adjust to a host or mainstream culture
emotion focused coping
a coping style that attempts to minimize emotional responsiveness rather than deal w the stressor directly
problem focused coping
a coping style that attempts to confront the stressor directly
psychological hardiness
a cluster of stres-buffering traits charcterized by commitment, chalenge and control
positive psych
a growing contempary movenment within psychology that focuses on the positive attributes of human behavior
acute stress disorder
a traumatic stress reaction occuring during the month following exposure to a traumatic event
post traumatic stress disorder
a prolonged maladaptive reaction to a traumatic evenr may persist for months, years or even decades direct or inderect exp to physical damange or thretened person reacts w extreme fear, horror, or helplessness to event trauma is re-exp needs to talk about exp instead of avoid it
avoidance behavior
ppl may avoid cues or sistuations associated w trauma. ex rape survior will avoid traveling to the part of town where she was attacked
reexperience the trauma
ppl may avoid cues or sistuations associated w trauma. ex rape survior will avoid traveling to the part of town where she was attacked
impaired functioning
PTSD is often associacted w psychological prob such as depression, anxiety or alcohol or substance abuse that can make it diffcult fo the person tofunction effectively in meeting daily responsibilties
heightened arousal
PTDSD patients may be unusally tense or feel on edge or keyed up much of the time. they may be become hypervigilant and mya complain of disturbe sleep, irritability and angry outburst and difficulty concentrating.
emotional numbing
ppl with ptsd may feel numb inside and lose the ability to enjoy activies they formaly took pleasure in
eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
a controversial form of therapy for PTSD that involves eye tracking a visual target while holding images of the traumatic exp in mind
separation anxiety disorder
a childhood disorder characterized by extreme fear of separtion from parent or other caretakers may voice concern about death and dying and insist that someone stay with them other features include nightmares, stomaches, nausea and vomiting 4-5% affect adolescents most often in girls
dissociateve disorders
a disorder charcterized by disruption or dissocitaion of identity, memory or consciousness
dissociative identity disorder
two or more personalities with well defined traits and memories occupying one personi in most cases the host is unaware of the existence of the other identities women tend to have more alternate identies than men averaging 15 or more than men who average 8 alter idneties women consist…
dissociative amnesia
a dissociative disorder in which a person experience memory loss without any identifiable organic cuase unable to recall importnat personal info,usually involving traumatic or stressful exp that cannot be attributed to drugs or a medical condition
localized amnesia
events occuring during a specific time period are lost to memory. for example the person cannot recall events for a number of hours or days after a stressful or tramatic incident such as a battle or car acident
selective ammnesi
ppl forget only the disturbing particulars that take place during a certain period of time. a person may recall the period of life during which he conducted an extramartial affair, but not the guilty arousing affair itself. a soilder may recall most of the battle, but not the death of h…
generalized amnesia
ppl forget their entire lives who they are what they do, where they live whom they live wit. this form of amnesia is very rare. persons with this amnesia cannont recall personal info but they tend to retain their habits tastes and skills. ex- be able to read, but not be able to recall …
coninuous amnesia
in this form of amnesia the person forgets everything that occurred from a particular point in time up to and including the present.
systematized amnesia
the memory loss is specific to a particular category of info such as memory about one family or particular ppl in one life
dissociative fugue
a dissociative disorfer in which one suddenly flees from one's life situation travels to a new location, assumes a new indentity and and has amnesia for personal material very rare all of sudden their amensia ware off and they get their old memories back
depersonalization
a temporary loss or change in the usual sense of own reality and surroundings. they may feel as if they are dreaming or acting like a robot only diagnosied when it is recurrent and persistet epidodes
derealization
a sense of unreality about the external world involving odd changes in the perceptions of one's surrounding or in the passage of time. may also be present ppl and obj may seem to change in size or shape and sounds may seem different all these feeling can be associated w feelings of anx…
somatoform disorders
ppl have physical symptoms wo an identifiable physical cause the symp significantly interfers w the person's life and often leads the person to doctor shopping to find what is going on
malingering
faking illness in order to avoid work or duty
facitious disorder
a disorder characterized by intentional fabrication of psychological or physical sympton for no apparent reason
munchausen syndrom
a type of factious disorder characterized by the fabrication of medical disorder patients tell tall tales or outrageous lies to doc people who suffer this syndrom usually suffer deep anguish as they bounce from hospital to hospital and subj themselves to unneccessary, painful and someti…
conversion disorder
a somatofrom disorder characterized by loss or impairment of physical function in the absence of any apparent organic cause the physical symp usually come on suddelyi n stressful situations rabout 1% of pop more women than men this disorder has been linked to childhood traumatization…
hypochondriasis
a preoccupation or fearr that one's physical symptoms are due to underlying illness such as cancer or heart disease about 1 to 5% of the general pop have this equally common in both men and wommen and begins btw ages of 20 and 30 these ppl do not fake their sym-they generally exp physic…
body dysmorphic disorder
are preoccupied w an imagined or exaggerated physical defect in their appearnce they may spend hours examining themselves in the mirror and go to extreme measures to correcte the perceived defect even undergoing invasive or unpleasant medical prodces such as plastic surgery this disorde…
pain disorder
is associated with psychological factors such as stressful life events the pain is severe enough and persistent enought to interfer w the person's daily function such as making it diffcult to go to school
somatization disorder
characterzed by multiple and recurrent somatic complaints that begin prior to the age of 30 patients complaints cannot be explained by physical causes or exceed what would be expected from a known physical prob are pestered by the symptoms themselves reported rates vary from ,2% to 2 i…
koro syndrom
culture bound synrdome found primarily in china and some other far eastern countries ppl withe this syndrome fear that their genitals are shrinking and retracting into their body which they believe will result in death this syndrome is moslty in men but their were some cases in women t…
dhat syndrom
found among young asian indian males involves excessive fears over the loss of seminal fluid during nocturnal emissions. some men with this syndrome also believe that smen mixes with urin and is excreted through urination. there is awidespread belief within indian culture that the losso…
what is the most common of headaches
tension headaches
tension headaches
stress can lead to persistent contractions of the muscles of the scalp, face neck and shoulders giving rise chronic headaches. such heahces dev gradually and are generally and are characterized by dull steady pain on both sides of the head and feeling of pressure or tightness 75-80% wh…
aura
suffers may experience this or clusters of warning sensations that preceds the attack are typified by perceptual distortions such as flashing lights bizarre images or blind lights
biofeedback training
helps ppl gain control various bodily functions such as muscle tension and brainwaves by giving them info(feedback) about these function in the fom of auitoy signals or visual displays
cardiovascular disease
leading death of both men and women claiming more lives than breast cancer a disease or disorder of the cardiovascular system such as coronary heart disease or hypertension in order to reduce the risk of this disease, changes can be mae by stop smoking, overeatting, heavy drinking, cons…
type a behavior pattern(TABP)
a style of beahvior that characterizes ppl who are hard driving, ambitious, impatient and highly competitive. linked the trait of hostility compent to increased risks of heart diseases and other negative health outcomes ppl who are higher in hostility tend to have more cardiovascular ri…
astma
14 million adults and 5 million children suffer attacks can last from just a few mins to several hrs series of attacks can harm the bronchial system causing mucus to collect mucus and muscles to lose their elasticity astma also has psychological consq some suffers avoid strenous activ…
cancer
men have one in two chances of developing in their lives women haves the odds are one in three involvines the dev of aberrant or mutant cells that form growht(tumors) that spread to healthy tissue ppl can get this by gentics, exposure to chemical and even to some viruses
treatment for cancer
psychological intervention that focues on helping cancer patients cope with their disease such as group support programs can improve their psycholgocial adj and well being it has been seen that it help increases their length of survival suffering from cancer
what is the majority cause of how ppl contracted HIV
hetersexual intercourse in the US 35% it is not contracted by donating blood, by airbonred germs, casual contact such as using public toilets, hoding or hugging infected person, sharing eating utensils w them or living or going to school w them
is their a cure for HIV
their is no cure for this disaese
daily hassles
day to day drainers, warries drustartions dissapointements
day to day drainers, warries drustartions dissapointements
large stress expereince nearly everyone, usually dont involve treatment loss such as divorce loss of loved one, loss of job,
highly unuusual stressors-stress
not experience by everyone, unusally evove direct or inirect threat of loss of life of physical damange, such as war, accident, sexual or physical assault natural disaters
stages of stress reactions to highly unusual physicall thretening stressors
shock. suggestible, recovery
shock
peroson looks daze, unaware of their injuries, first stage of "stages of reactes to highly unusualy physical stressor"
suggestible
a person who comes around after a while try to take c are of other ppl cant think for themselves but if someone tells them to do something they do it second stage of "stages of reactes to highly unusualy physical stressor"
recovery
few hrs to a few days after trauma third stage to "stages of reactes to highly unusualy physical stressor"
anxiety disorders
post traumatic stress panic disorder w and wo agoraphobia
phobias
simple/specific social and agorabobia
panic disorder wo agorpbia
either at least 4 attacks in or fewer but intense fear of having an attack can have 4 in aday fear of dying fear of going crazy can have a fear ppf getting them sshortness of breath dizzness, unsteadiness more women than men 2:1 onset late adolescent to 30
panic disorder w agorbia
marked fear of being places alone wo help from escape panic such outisde home alone will not leave home wo certain ppl, 3:1 women-more women than men have this begins late adolescent or early childhood treatment-deal with agorbia
phobias
stron fear and avoidance of specfic situations persistant irritional or excessive high arousal when confronted avoid or escape at all possible interfers w life estimate w phobias 10%
specific phobias
fear and avoidance of specific non evaluation obj situations or activitions ex-driving elevation 3:1 more women than men often common with other anxiety disorder
social phobias
fear and avoifance to situations where ppl might be evaluated criticized rejected or embarrassed such as test, public speaking, performing in front of others, interviewin approaching authority figures 3-13-% more women in men strong family link
treatment of phobias
anti-anxiet and anti-depressant med relaxation intervention cognitive therapy skill building exposure
obession
persistent desiring thoughts image, impulse or urge express as unwanted but irresistible
mental or behavioral act resulting from an obession which is desired to prevent or induce anxiety guilt or anger inherent in obsession tends to be rigid, repetitive stereotypical sets
mental or behavioral act resulting from an obession which is desired to prevent or induce anxiety guilt or anger inherent in obsession tends to be rigid, repetitive stereotypical sets
2 percent and 25 yes genetic link
how many people is affect with OCD and what age does it generally start and does it have a link
treatment of ocd
anti depressant medication exposure and response prevention cognitive thereapy -focuses on copulsion assertion and emotional expression skills intensive psyotherapy
generalize anxiety disorder
chronic unrealistic or excessive worry and anxiety worriers o r nervous woryy for 6 or more things restless, easily fatigued,diffculty concentrating, muscle tenstion,interfers w personal life twice as much women than men 3-5% of pop onset 20
treatment of generalize anxiety disorder
treatment of generalize anxiety disorder
classic migraine
intense throbbing pain genrally in temporal region oftenw nausea, vomitting diarrhea, dizziness a or fainteness preceeded by an aura increased sensitivity to light and sound some perceptual distertin usualy 15-20 mins
common migraine
similar to classic but w/o aura. appear related to stress so sometimes called weeked or monday heaches more common in women
cluster
migraines that occur in more men than women no aura see more sweating running nose less gastraous and more cardiovasocular
two factor model
a theorectical model that accounts for the dev of phobic reactions on the basis of classical and operant condioning
systematic desensitization
a behavior therapy technique for overcoming phobias by means of exposure for progressively more fearful stimuli(in imagination or by viewing slides) while remaining deeply relaxed ex- viewing pictures of a injection
fear stimulus hierarchy
an ordered series of increasingly fearful stimuli ex- gradually imagining themselves to recieve an injection or remain in a enclosed room or elevator without undue anxiety
virtual reality therapy
a form of exposure therapy involving the presentation of phobic stimuli in a virtual reality env
self efficacy expectancies
beliefs in one's ability to accomplish paricular tasks
AA
who stand a greater risk in sufffering chronic health probs such as obesity, hypertension, heart diseases, diabetes and certain types of cancer whites, AA, asians or hispanics
AA and euro americans
who has the greatest risk of coronary heart disease? AA and european americans, Asian americans and hispanics, native americans and Hispanics or African americans and hispanics

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