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Health Psychology Flashcards

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What are the 3 different ways stress can be thought of?

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  1. A stimulus
  2. A response
  3. A person-situation interaction
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What are the stages of the person-situation interaction with stress?

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  1. Situational component
  2. Cognitive appraisal
  3. Psychological responses
  4. Coping strategies
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Eg’s of the situational component?

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= The demands of the situation
Intensity
Duration
Predictability
Controllability
Chronicity

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Eg’s of the cognitive appraisal component?

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Worry
Racing thoughts
Low confidence

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Eg’s of the psysiological component/ response?

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Muscle tension
Increased heart rate
Shortness of breath
Suceptability to illness

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2 physiological responses to stress;

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Sympathetic adrenomedullary system
Hypothalamic-Pituatary-Adrenocortial System

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Hypothalamic-Pituatary-Adrenocortial System (HPA)

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Longer term process than HPA
Anterior pituatary gland sends a stimulus to the adrenal glands which leads to the production of cortisol

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Sympathetic adrenomedullary system (SAM)

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Immediate response
You have activation of sympathetic neurons which activates your adrenal glands which leads to the production of Norepinephrine/Epinephrine

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What response is occurring when someone jumps out at you?

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Sympathetic adrenomedullary system (SAM)

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4 types of coping strategies for stress

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Problem focused
Avoidance/disengagement
Emotion focused
Social support

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Problem solving coping strategy (3 types)

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Problem solving: finding methods that might deter the impact of presence of a stressor
Cognitive restructing: reassesing the situation/ placing a different spin on it
Finding meaning: finding some benefit in it

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Avoidance coping strategy (5 types)

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Active distraction - run
Cognitive distraction - reading a book
Dential/ Emotional containment - denying it
Humor - making jokes
Drug use - Vaping, drinking

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Emotion focused coping strategy (3 types)

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Emotional expression - crying
Other blame - blaming others
Self blame - blaming self
Rumination - thinking about it over and over, dwelling
Wishful thinking - optimistic
Passive resignation - acceptance

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Social support coping stratgy (3 types)

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Apprisal support (advice)
Belonging support (hanging out)
Tangible Support (problem solving help)

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4 theraputic approaches to stess?

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Cognitive behaviour therapy (changing coping strategies)
Acceptance and Committment therapy (acceptance)
Dialectial behaviour therapy (acceptance but also open to idea of change)
Pharmacotherapy (medical drugs)

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3 broad impacts of stress on health?

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Psychoogcial wellbeing
Physical illness
Immune system

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Eg study of stress impacting psychologcial wellbeing

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Solider study
As they witnessed more violence, they had more PTSD

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Eg study of stress impacting physcial illness

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Coronary Artery disease study
Those who scored higher on the amount of home/work stress had higher rates of coronary artery disease

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Eg study of stress impacting immune system

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Respiratory infection children study
Infants and young children that experienced more than 1 negative life event per year have higher rates of respitory infections

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Stigma is a …… not a ….

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Social construction
Not a fact

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21
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Mental illness stigma is like a ….. because….

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Double edged sword
Because people have to deal with the illness as well as soceity treating them poorly

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2 Primary sources of Mental Illness stigma are in…

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News becuause we only hear about the bad
and Movies because they use it as the plot

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Results of the joker study testing MI stigma

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After watching the joker, peoples fear and authorotarianism increased

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3 ways to combat stigma

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Contact
Education
Protest

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Like minds history campaign did what and what results were received

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National tv campaigns, other media and communication activties + community action and + education
Had a positive impact - people disagreed with prejudice statements more

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Social model of disability

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Struggles with the disability are not caused by the impairments from itself but from the way soceity fails to orginise itself to help people with disability

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Medical model of disability

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Individual focused - the disability causes struggle

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Neurodiversity Paradigm

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We should think about the differences we see not as dysfunction but just as differences - not bad things

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30
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The neurodiversity paradigm and medical model are different in their …. but have the same ….

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Approaches
Same common goals of:
- Cure
- Minimising harm
- Pragmatic compromise
- Should’t try and pathologise things that are just differences

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31
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Person-first language

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“Person with autisim”

32
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Identify First language

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“Autistic person”

33
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From the study on preference of language…what type of language did autistic people prefer?

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Identify first language - becuause they see their disorder as a strength and it is their itendity.

34
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3 ways autistic people camoflauge into soceity?

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Compensation - compensating for traits
Masking - hiding traits
Assimilation - copying

35
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What did the study of social camoflauging find?

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Autistic people camoflauge more than non-autistic people
They feel more pressure to fit into societal norms

36
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Study on relation between perspective of disorder and self esteem found what?

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If they held a neurodiversity perspective of their disorder, they have higher self esteem

37
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The 3 models of Maori health

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Te Whare Tapa Wha
Whiti Te Ra
Meihana Model

38
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Te Whare Tapa Wha model =

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The house
4 walls:
Taha Tinana = physical
Taha Wairua = spiritual
Taha Hinengaro = Mental/emotional
Taha Whanau = social

39
Q

Te Whare Tapa Wha cannot be….

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Split
All have to be acheived for wellbeing

40
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Whiti Te Ra maori model =

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6 themes:
Reo Maori = language
Taiao = connection with envrionment
Wairua = spritual
Mahi-a-toi = Art forms
Whanau = relational values
Whakapapa = Intergenerational relationships

41
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Values in the Waka of Meihana Model

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Whanau = support networks
Tinana = physcial
Hinengaro = mental
Wairua = spirituality
Taio = Connection to envrionment
Iwi Katoa = serivces and systems

42
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4 winds of the Meihana model =

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Colinisation
Racisim
Migration
Marginilisation

43
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4 currents of the Meihana model =

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Ahua = personal indicators of Maori
Tikanga = cultural principles
Whenua = spiritual connection to whanau or land
Whanau = relationships/ responsibilities

44
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3 models of Pacifica health?

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Fonofale
Te Vaka Atafaga
Seitapu framework

45
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Fonofale model =

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House
Family at the base
Physcial, mental, spiritual and other as the pillars connecting two
Culture as the roof
Context, time and envrionment as influences above house

46
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What does the quote “he toeaina ke nofo i te mulivaka” mean for the model

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Elder sitting at the kanoes stern

47
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Te Vaka Atafaga model =

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Mafaufau = Waka with elder at the stern (mind)
Social/ support systems = people in rest of boat, support systems
Family = family
Physical body
Spirituality/ Belief systems
Envrionment

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Seitapu framework =

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Centre = you/ the health carer
Rings =
Health sector
Ethics
Orginisation
Tapu
Language
Families
Corners =
Clinical theory
Cultural theory
Cultural practise
Clinical practice
- Have to balance
Box around outside =
Consumer
& Families

49
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For alcohol use, not only does it peak for …. age but also there is periods where …

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Peaks for 18-20 age but there is also times/ places where it peaks even higher - eg; O week

50
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What gender has the highest rates of alcohol deaths

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Males

51
Q

The drug which has the highest harm is

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Alcohol

52
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How did alcohol frequency change after 1999 (age lowered)

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Didn’t really change

53
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How did quantity change after 1999 (age lowered)

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Increased for males and females

54
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How did weekend assaults change after 1999 (age lowered)

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Increased for male and females

55
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How did traffic crashes change after 1999 (age lowered)

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Did not change

56
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3 approaches to addressing adolcent alcohol use

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Parent
Psychologcial
Policy

57
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Parent approaches to address adolecent alcohol use?

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Many parents supply children with alcohol for safe atmosphere but there is no evidence supporting any benefit from this

58
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6 protective family measures?

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  1. Cohesive and Supportive family envrionment
  2. Clear rules
  3. Monitoring
  4. Education of predictors
  5. Education of consequences
  6. Authorotative not authorotarian
59
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Psychologcial approaches to addressing adolescent alcohol use =

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Dealing with people individually
Assesing risk and making a solution to try and lower risk

60
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FRAMES?

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F = feedback
R = responsiblity sits with them
A = advice
M = menu of options
E = empathy
S = self belief building

61
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The most effective approach to addressing adolesent alcohol abuse is…

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Policy approaches (usually)

62
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5 things that could be done to mitigate adolecent alcohol use with policy approaches?

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  1. Increase price
  2. Increase age to buy
  3. Decrease access
  4. Decrease advertising and sponsorship
  5. Increase drink driving countermeasures (stops etc)
63
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The more hours you spend on social media…

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The worse you feel about your looks

64
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Tripartite Influence model =

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3 sources of appearance pressure:
1. Peers
2. Family
3. Media
Which all lead to internalization and comparisons
Which reduces self esteem

65
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The most appearance pressure comes from what source?

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Social media

66
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What occurs more? Comparison or internalization?

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Body comparison

67
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Most of time spend on social media is ….

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Browsing

68
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It’s not just browsing on social media that has an impact, but also…

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Editing photos - how you use social media

69
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The body positivity study found:

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Seeing body positive content increases body appreciation most

70
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Body functionality is the idea of =

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Being appreciative of the things your body can do rather than how it looks

71
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The study on body functionality found:

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People get a decrease in body appreciation when they see thin ideal images but the group who talks about their body functionality after increases higher than the group who did the other task.

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PRACTICE Q: Jackie is very stressed and makes light of his situation, what type of coping strategy is he using?

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Avoidance

73
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Protest based inteventions for reducing stigma involve…

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Challenging a media orginizations portrayal of mental illness

74
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Saying “Jane lives with autisim” is an example of…

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Person first language

75
Q

In the Te Whare Tapa Wha model, going for a run is best captured by:

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Taha Tinana

76
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Which theoretical model posits that body image dissatisfaction is influenced by the discrepancy between the actual body and idealised body standard?

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D. Self discrepancy theory.

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