Health Psychology Flashcards
Autonomic nervous system
Things you don’t think about
Heartbeat/digest
Cortisol
Hormone increases metabolism
Emotion-focused coping
Use emotion to cope
•crying
•laughing
•anger
Health psychology
Behavior enhances health
Inoculation
Change a habit
Parasympathetic nervous system
Calms you down
Polygraph
lie detector test
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Extreme feel prolonged anxiety and depression
Problem-focused coping
Solving the problem
Reappraisal
Giving something a second look
Stress
Response to a demanding, threatening situation
Subjective well-being
Self evaluation of how life is
Sympathetic nervous system
Fight or flight
Type A personality
Impatient
Angry
Hostile
Type b personality
Sloth
Slow
Too relaxed
Acute stressors
A small stress thing
Aggression
Hurt someone physically and verbally
Approach-approach conflict
( positive-positive)
Picking the best of two choices
Approach-avoidance conflict
+/- & +/-
The picking between two things that have pros and cons
Avoidance-avoidance
negative/ negative
Picking of two lesser things
Anxiety
Increase in startle reflex
Psychoneuroimmunology
Mind works together with brain, nervous system etc.
Burnout
Mentally gone (Lost interest in something)
Catastrophic thinking
Taking something minor and making it more than what it is.
