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Health Psychology Flashcards

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Healthy psychology

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  • links behaviour cognition, and physical health
  • emphasize role of mental processes in maintaning a healthy body
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Biopsychosocial Model

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Health outcomes = combination of biological, psychological, and social factors

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Biological components

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  • sex, illness, genetics, immune functioning, neurochemistry
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Psychological Factors

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-personality, history, behaviours, beliefs, memories, coping strategies
e.g person w positive outlook recover from surgery better than one w negative mindset

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Social Factors

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  • friends, family, culture, status social economic, education
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Stress

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  • physiological response to an environmental event
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TYPES of Stressors

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  1. Catastrophic events
    -natural disaster
  2. Major life events
    - marriage
  3. Daily hassles
    -traffic
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Primary apprasial vs Secondary aprasial

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  • evaluating job interview as either a challenge or threat

-considering whether u have the skills to perform well

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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

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  1. Alarm Stage
    -release of adrenaline
  2. Resistance Stage
    -functioning at work, dealing with problem
  3. Exhaustion Stage
    -burnt out
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SAM axis vs HPA axis

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-fast-acting cardiovascular response
-fight or flight
E.g heart racing after near accident
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-prolonged response
-conserves energy
E.g. stressed after week of pressure at work

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Coristol

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  • hormone produced by the adrenal cortex
  • in response to stress
    -via HPA axis
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acute/short lived stressor

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  • can strengthen body’s stress response
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chronic/ prolonged stressors

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  • damages ones health
  • weakens immune response
    -increase inflamation
  • lead to cardio vascular disease
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Type A vs Type B perosnality

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A: competitive, driven, focused on time management
B: reflective, creative, less competitive

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Resilience

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  • ability to cope with stress and return to baseline levels quickly
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Diathesis-stress model

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  • traditional view on how genes and environment interact
    -genes give us diathesis (inherent risk)
    -stress events trigger rxn
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Epigenetics

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  • studies how life events change gene expression
    E.g diet or stress effects
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Social support

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  • belief one can turn to peoples help to aid stress
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Mindefulness

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  • focuses attention on the present
    -acceptance of thoughts and feelings
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Implmentation intentions

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  • if then
    E.g.: “ if I finish my work by 5, I will go to the gym
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Humor & Health

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  • associated with optimism
  • higher self-esteem, and lower rates of depression
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Building positive mentions

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-enhance wellbeing
-signal safety
-enable exploration, and reslience

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Traumatic Experience

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  • helps people find meaning in negative events
    -promote wellbeing
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FLOW

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  • focused attention on the task
    E.g. musician losing track of time while performing
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Which is more important - The Objective Stressor, or the Perceived stress?

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  • perceived stress
  • determines impacts on health and wellbeing
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Challenge reactivity

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-occurs in SAM
-heartbeats faster
-more blood flow
-circulation
-ready to fight

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Threat reactivity

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-impairs peformance
-fear

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IDEAL follow up to s stress respone

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  • body returns to homeostasis rapidly
    -using parasympathetic nervous system
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Stress links to Cardiovascular disease hint SAM

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-chronically activates SAM means chronic high blood pressure
-plaque buildup in arteries

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Stress & Risk-taking

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  • rewards seem more attractive
  • more likely to act impulsively
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Health Disparities

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  • the difference in health status between groups
    -socioeconomic status in childhood
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correlation between stress & control

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People who have a higher degree of perceived control over their lives experience less stress

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Problem-focused coping vs Emotion-focused coping

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  • confront and control rather than avoid the problem
    vs
  • no direct solution of distress

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