Exam 1

Question 1

Holistic Health:

Answer 1

Encompasses physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and social dimensions

Question 2

A holistically healthy person functions as a total________ ________

Answer 2

Balanced, person

Question 3

Stressor:

Answer 3

Anything that causes a stress response

Question 4

Eustress:

Answer 4

Positive stress

Question 5

Distress:

Answer 5

Negative stress

Question 6

Acute Stress:

Answer 6

Stress that appears suddenly, is intense, then disappears

Question 7

Chronic Stress:

Answer 7

Long term stress resulting from nagging problems that don’t go away. Wears the body down and may even lead to death

Question 8

Episodic Acute Stress:

Answer 8

Frequent episodes of acute stress

Question 9

Physiological indicators of stress:

Answer 9

Heart rate, breathing rate, pupils, salivating

Question 10

Type of Stress Assessments:

Answer 10

Stress diary, student stress scale, perceived stress scale

Question 11

Homeostasis=

Answer 11

Balance

Question 12

Autonomic Nervous System (ANS):

Answer 12

Controls unconscious bodily functions like breathing

Question 13

Sympathetic Nervous System:

Answer 13

A branch of the ANS that is responsible for initiating the fight or flight response

Question 14

Parasympathetic Nervous System:

Answer 14

Branch of the ANS that returns the body to homeostasis

Question 15

Fight or Flight Response:

Answer 15

Caused by a surge of hormones that help a person deal with danger by either fighting or running, helping them to survive. It is usually short term

Question 16

Tend and Befriend:

Answer 16

Women are different from men in the way they cope with things because they typically want to surround themselves with friends or other people to help them deal with their stress

Question 17

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS):

Answer 17

The process by which the body tries to adapt to stress

Question 18

GAS Stages:

Answer 18

Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion

Question 19

Myths about stress:

Answer 19

• in an ideal world there would be no stress
• what is stressful to me is also stressful to you
• only unpleasant situations are stressful
• no symptoms, no stress
• Stress is inevitable so you can’t do anything about it

Question 20

Psychosomatic Illness:

Answer 20

Conditions that have a mind and body component

Question 21

Placebo Effect:

Answer 21

The treatment has no effect but a positive effect is created by a persons belief that they will benefit from the intervention

Question 22

Nocebo Efffect:

Answer 22

A negative effect created by a persons belief that there will be negative outcomes to the intervention

Question 23

Allostatic Load:

Answer 23

Cumulative, physiological wear and tear on the body from ongoing attempts to maintain homeostasis

Question 24

Power of Perception:

Answer 24

The perception of an event is what initiates the flight or fight response, NOT the event itself

Question 25

Cognitive Reconstructing:

Answer 25

The mental act of changing the meaning of our interpretations of the the stressors in life

Question 26

Hardiness:

Answer 26

A hardy person is someone who:

• Views potentially stressful events as interesting and meaningful (Commitment)
• who sees change as normal and an opportunity for growth (Challenge)
• who sees themselves as capable of having an influence on events (Control)

Question 27

Internal Locus of Control:

Answer 27

See themselves as responsible for the outcomes of their own actions

Question 28

External Locus of Control:

Answer 28

Believes that whatever happens to them is unrelated to their own behavior- making it beyond their control

Question 29

Self-Efficacy:

Answer 29

The belief in our ability to accomplish a goal or a behavior

Question 30

Positive Self-Talk:

Answer 30

Sending positive messages to yourself. Making a conscious effort to shift negative thoughts to positive thoughts

Question 31

ABCDE Technique:

Answer 31

A method of coping with anxiety, which consists of examining beliefs

Question 32

ABCDE:

Answer 32

A: activating event (identifying stressor)
B: belief system (identify rational and irrational beliefs)
C: consequences (mental, physical, behavioral)
D: dispute irrational beliefs
E: effect (change consequences)

Question 33

Mindfulness:

Answer 33

The state of being attentive to and aware of what is taking place in the present

Question 34

Mindlessness:

Answer 34

Occurs when our thoughts are not in the present moment and when we tune out what is happening

Question 35

Somatizing:

Answer 35

A tendency to experience and communicate psychological distress in the form of somatic symptoms