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Health And Well Being Flashcards

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Positive psych movement

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Scientific study of things that expand our lives (being happy )
Authentic happiness- pleasure emotion, 2. Engaging in life 3. Meaning in life

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Authentic happiness

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Authentic happiness- pleasure emotion, 2. Engaging in life 3. Meaning in life
Effects: find meaning in everything’ and connect back to your life (brings more emotion) and activley engage and interact with ppl

Positive psych movmenet
Seligman

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Seligman’s take on happiness

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SUCCESSFUL life isn’t about happiness defined by positive psych
Just good relationships and history of accomplishment

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NEW positive psych (Well being+ Gallup well beinG)

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Well being - positive state
ACTIVELY participate in health enhancing activities
EX: Daly thoughts and practices
Gallup well being: enjoy careers, social relations, financial security, safety, pride in community

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Mindfulness

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Being hyper aware of the present moment

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Purpose and meaning in life

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Connect with your unique purpose= menaing in life
Less anxiety because of worrying about afterlife
Identify strengths and talents to use in your life so that you feel fulfilled by going into a certain career
Find meaning in small things everyday and not be so desensitized to life as it is in its raw state
Having goals -> self-esteem, efficacy, and satisfaction and boost interactions

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Correlation causation with happiness

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Correlation- more hope and curiosity when not sick
- when sick -> unhappy and worsened sickness
* I think will determines how strong our immune system is like with hypnosis theory or threshold theory
Over all tho fs happiness causes better health

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Chronic stress on heart

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Boutta change my whole life

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Chronic stress= high blood pressure
Pieces of plaque break off walls of blood vessel and build up to block flow-> around heart is heart attack and around brain is stroke

GENETICS but also MOSTLY because of how you deal with stressors (
Your personality but also your will)

Respond with the hopelessness we feel when we overreat (adds to risk) but in a more productive direction. Be hopeless bu associated the previously totally disconnected concept of self help to taboo things we normally use to cope with negative things.
Defeat the social norms

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3 types of stress

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1 stressor- (good or bad reaction) foundation before the next two doesn’t stress cause at least an ounce of negative stress?
2 Eustress- stress of positive events (excited for planned event- stress comes from the organization) - positive stress is maybe physically tensing? Physical stress? Because emotional stress can probably mean emotional adrenaline, like pumped up, mind is FULL of and RACING with thoughts
3 distress- negative stress

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Major life stressor

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Horrible, uncontrollable but MAY come from your actions (it still hits you like a truck)

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Daily stressors

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Everyday situations- drain us of mental health and opportunities to ignite positivity

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Emotional regulation techniques

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Thought suppression- suppress neg (dont work because psychology is fixed on them and so you’ll just be thinking about negs LONGER)
Rumination- negative thinking (effect of thought suppression)
better versions. Think about neg in new ways (not suppressing)
Positive reappraisal- don’t be neg
Humor- satirical coping
Distraction- temp fix

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Positive reappraisal (positive thinking strats) BIO

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Think about the negative stimulus in a new way to trick your brain into calmly integrating and molding into the new thought pattern (mix a little bit of truth to make it work tho)
Changes activity of brain regions involved in emotion (thought patterns)

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Emotion focused coping skills

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Emotion focused coping skills- REGULATE + PREVENT negative emotional reactions to stressor
EX: Exercise, hobbies, emotion puzzle reminders, meditation
Don’t solve or prevent them happening in future- sources of stress is uncontrollable<- effect only in short run

Theirs; downplaying or preventing emotional response (REMMEBER it’s NOT by doing an emotion/ emotional coping like I thought)

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problem focused coping skills

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direct steps that help in long run
EX: time management, analyzing and strategizing

! Yeah mom ]

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Primary appraisals

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DECIDE if the thing is stressful, or irrelevant or just gonna hang around (benign)

When decide -> secondary appraisal

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Secondary appraisal

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After identifying what the stimuli is , decide how to cope with it

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Biopsychosocial model of health

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Physiological factors that make ppl get obsess:
How they think about food,
Behaviors are psychological (do they tend to overeat)
Stressful life circumstances

Social factors:
Strict times when they have to eat (socially imposed)
Obese friends

Genetics:
if person CAN
Society if person WILL
WO4- X genetic obesity is minor (60 -80% heritable)
- x genes change overtime from social influences

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General adaptation syndrome BIO

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Diff stressors make ROUGHLY teh same patterns of physiological repossess
Changes = adrenal glands get big, damage in immune system -> low level of white blood cells
All leads to bad immune suystem

Three stages of syndrome
1. Alarm - emergency response (fight or flight - rate, muscles tension)
2. Resistance - defenses maximized (preparation for prolonged stress)
3. Exhaustion - system fail (body organs that were weak before the stressors are first to fail) -> illness _ of prolonged press end of stress hormones compromising immune system

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Health psychology

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Explores WHY ppl engage in unhealthy or healthy behaviors (_ the why is the start and can help us find the end)

Also how social systems come into play (ethnic and sex differences)

WO4: x lack of disease
: x preventative medicines

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Gendered repossess to stress

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Fight or flight in men
Tend and befriend in women (protecting offspring and forming social alliances (evolutionary adaptive in women so WO4 “no diff in genders its all social)

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WO4

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X avoid emotional responses
X dwell on negative emotions and wallow
X not emotionally available and controllable to manage every possible thing of the stressor (flexible)
X

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Aerobic Exercise in SEDENTARY older adults

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Increased brain volume
Improve overal cognition
Helps memory for moderate memory problem havers (WO4 X Alzheimer’s)

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Dieting epic fail compilation

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Body’s NATUARAL defense system is AGAINST weight loss
- it slows down metabolism and uses less energy
- after being deprived -> needs less food to maintain a given body weight
- weight gain occurs MUCH faster after weight loss (SEE BELOW)
Genetic= body weight regulated around a set point (metabolism and how fast you shed weight)

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Spiritual life

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WO4- contemplation connects ppl to something bigger than themselves and SOMEHOW doesn’t cause any stress whatsoever RIGHT TTTTT

Discourages drinking alcohol
Gives social support
Medians in life
Gives ways to cope with stress

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Giving positive meaning to ordinary events (positive thinking strats)

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Finding enjoyment in smaller things
Not exactly negative cope, thats why this is use GENERAL positive thinking strat, BUT this could possibly cope, cuz general positivity and optimism aids responses to later negative things (i enjoyed car ride to school so I don’t want to kill myself in class)

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Downward comparison (positive thinking strats)

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Comparing your circumstances to anothers to make yourself feel guilty or make yourself more prideful (i prefer the less shitty version)

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Obesity facts

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Tripled around globe not just US

But rising HUGELY in western countries
And obese KIDS especially in US

NOT decreasing

Food is reward system in brain for them
Rats and humans reposed to food in same way (

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Hardy personalities

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Overcome difficulties and carry on with plans
Se themselves as having control
See them as positive challenges
View events constructively and chase change (mindful)
WO4- x stoic response

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Mediating factor

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Like ones personality -> minimize effects of a stressor (personality being the choice of trying healthy practices)

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