Health Psychology Flashcards

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1
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Autonomic nervous system

A

Things you don’t think about

Heartbeat/digest

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2
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Cortisol

A

Hormone increases metabolism

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3
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Emotion-focused coping

A

Use emotion to cope
•crying
•laughing
•anger

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4
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Health psychology

A

Behavior enhances health

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5
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Inoculation

A

Change a habit

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6
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Parasympathetic nervous system

A

Calms you down

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7
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Polygraph

A

lie detector test

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8
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

A

Extreme feel prolonged anxiety and depression

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9
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Problem-focused coping

A

Solving the problem

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10
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Reappraisal

A

Giving something a second look

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11
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Stress

A

Response to a demanding, threatening situation

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12
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Subjective well-being

A

Self evaluation of how life is

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13
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Sympathetic nervous system

A

Fight or flight

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14
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Type A personality

A

Impatient
Angry
Hostile

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15
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Type b personality

A

Sloth
Slow
Too relaxed

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16
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Acute stressors

A

A small stress thing

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17
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Aggression

A

Hurt someone physically and verbally

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18
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Approach-approach conflict

( positive-positive)

A

Picking the best of two choices

19
Q

Approach-avoidance conflict

+/- & +/-

A

The picking between two things that have pros and cons

20
Q

Avoidance-avoidance

negative/ negative

A

Picking of two lesser things

21
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Anxiety

A

Increase in startle reflex

22
Q

Psychoneuroimmunology

A

Mind works together with brain, nervous system etc.

23
Q

Burnout

A
Mentally gone 
(Lost interest in something)
24
Q

Catastrophic thinking

A

Taking something minor and making it more than what it is.

25
Q

Chronic stressors

A

Putting up with something too long

26
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Conflict

A

2 or more things are incompatible

27
Q

Constructive coping

A

Technique that works for you to cope

-screaming

28
Q

Coping

A

Dealing with

29
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Defense mechanism

A

Coping mechanism

30
Q

Fight or flight response

A

Stay there and take care of it or leave

31
Q

Frustration

A

you (((block))) goal

32
Q

General adaptation syndrome (gas)

A

Alarm 👆🏼
Resistance 👉🏼
Exhaustion 👇🏼

(Putting something off until you’ve had enough)

33
Q

Heath psychology

A

Immune system >diet>sleep>stress

34
Q

Immune response

A

How your body reacts to intruders

35
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Internet addiction

A

Out of control want to to something

36
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Learned helplessness

A

Overdoing something to the point where we give up and no longer want to go it

37
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Life changes

A

Whenever something happened good or bad

38
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Optimism

A

Look on the bright side

39
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Pressure

A

Can be internal or external

40
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Psychosomatic disease

A

So worked up causes physical and emotional distress

41
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Social support

A

Friends pet church

42
Q

Eustress

A

Good stress

43
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Distress

A

Bad stress