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1
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what is appraisal?

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process of evaulating a stimulus to determine its level of stress

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2
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Define emotion focused coping…

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reducing distress by using strategies such as avoidance, emotional support etc

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define problem focused coping…

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concentrates on dealing with the problem, and hence dealing with the stress. Situations are managed proactively with information

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according to the GMC, how is end of life care defined?

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when a patient is likely to die within the next 12 months

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according to the suicide act, 1961, what is commiting suicide legal in the UK?

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Suicide is legal

Assisting suicide is illegal

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6
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out of the following documents, which are legally binding?

advanced decision
advanced statement
lasting power of attorney

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advanced decision

lasting power of attorney

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what is sensation?

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the input about the physical world obtained by sensory receptors

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what is perception?

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how the brain processes and organises sensory information

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what is the absolute threshold of sensation?

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minimum amount of stimulus that must be present to detect said stimulus 50% of the time

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what is subliminal messaging?

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any stimulus that is below the absolute threshold stimulus. Information is received to the cortex, but not consciously recognised

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what is sensory adaptation?

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when stimuli aren’t perceived because they have been constant for a long period of time

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12
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what is bottom-up processing?

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perceptions built from sensory input

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what is top-down processing?

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the interpretation of sensation is effected by available knowledge, context, thoughts and emotions

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how does attention relate to sensation?

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Attention relates to what is sensed (not perceived)

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what is inattentional blindness?

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failure to notice something that is visible due to a lack of attention

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what is the definition of stigma? (2 definitions)

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‘an attribute that is discrediting within a particular interaction’

‘an undesirable characteristic in a particular context’

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17
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what are the two types of stigma?

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felt stigma

enacted stigma

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what is enacted stigma?

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societal reactions that produce direct discrimination

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what is felt stigma?

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caused by the imagined social reaction due to stigma that exists

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20
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what legislative act deals with stigmatisation?

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UK equalities act, 2010

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21
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what are the three stages of memory?

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encoding
storage
retrieval

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what is recall?

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reproduction of information to which one has been previously exposed, without cues

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23
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what is recognition?

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uses a stimulus to retrieve information that has been previously learnt

24
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what is a serial position curve? Who put forward this theory?

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concept that suggests things at the start and end of a list will always be remembered better than those of the middle (a.k.a the primary and recency effect)

Ebinghaus 1880’s

25
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which memory theory did Barlett propose in 1950’s?

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memories are grouped into schema, and are actively reconstructed when they are recalled

26
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the working memory theory applies to which component of memory?

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short term

27
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the levels of processing model focuses on which part of memory?

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encoding

28
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what is explicit memory?

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memories of which we have a conscious awareness

29
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what is implicit memory?

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knowledge without awareness

30
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what is procedural memory?

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remembering how to perform a skill

31
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what is declarative memory?

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memory for facts

32
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what are the two types of declaritive memory?

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semantic and episodic

33
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what is semantic memory?

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knowing the meaning of words and concepts

34
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what is episodic memory?

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knowledge of autobiographical events (who, what, when, where)

35
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what is prospective memory?

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remembering to do things

36
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how is mortality rate calculated?

A

number of deaths / number of people in population

compared with previous years

37
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what is morbidity rate?

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frequency of which a disease appears in a particular population

38
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what are levels of functioning tests?

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measure things like activities of daily living

39
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what is subjective health status?

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when pt is asked to rate their own level of health

40
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what are the four dimensions of quality of life? (give examples)

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psychological (mood, emotional distress)

social (relationships)

physical (mobility, sleep, pain)

occupational

41
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what is quality of adjusted life years?

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state of health measured in terms of length of life, but ADJUSTED for QUALITY OF LIFE

42
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1QALY is equal to…

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one year of life in perfect health

43
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standardised/individualised questionnares….

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ask the same questions to everyone, therefore data is comparable

44
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what is the difference between unidimensional and multdimensional health questionairres?

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unidim > focus on one specific aspect of health e.g. mood i.e general health questionnaire depression diagnosis

multidim > assess health in the broadest sense. Often subjective but good predictors of mortality

45
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what is emotion?

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a mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort

46
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where does fear conditioning occur?

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central nucleus of amygdala

47
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what cortex is response for the production of fear and guilt?

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pre-frontal cortex

48
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which type of memory is associated with recency effect?

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short term memory

49
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which type of memory is associated with long-term memory?

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primacy effect

50
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define capacity

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the everyday ability that individuals possess to make decisions that influence their lives

51
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at what ages does the mental capacity act apply?

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16+

52
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how long does a section 2 last?

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28 days

53
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how long does a section 3 last?

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6 months

54
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how long does a section 4 last?

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72 hours

55
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how long does a section 5 (2) last?

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72 hours

56
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how long does a section 5 (4) last?

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6 hours

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