Midterm 4

Question 1

What is a chronic disease?

Answer 1

A health condition that persists over time, typically for periods longer than 3 months.

Question 2

What is the biopsychosocial model of health?

Answer 2

An approach to studying health and human function that posits the importance of biological, psychological, and social processes.

Question 3

What is health?

Answer 3

The complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being.

Question 4

What is a mind-body connection?

Answer 4

The idea is that our mind and thought affect our body functions.

Question 5

What is Psychosomatic medicine?

Answer 5

An interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on how biological, psychological, and social processes contribute to physiological changes in body and health over time.

Question 6

What is psychoneuroimmunology?

Answer 6

A field of study examining the relationship between psychology brain function and immune function.

Question 7

What is a stressor?

Answer 7

An event of stimulus that includes a feeling of stress.

Question 8

What are daily hassles?

Answer 8

Irritations in daily life that are not necessarily traumatic but cause difficulties and bring stress.

Question 9

What is stress?

Answer 9

A pattern of physical and psychological responses in an organism after it perceives a threatening event and disturbs homeostasis.

Question 10

What is general adaption syndrome?

Answer 10

A three-phase model of stress includes mobilization of physiological resource phase, a coping phase, and an exhaustion phase.

Question 11

What is resilience?

Answer 11

The ability to ‘bounce back from negative situations to normal functioning.

Question 12

What is problem-focused coping?

Answer 12

A set of coping strategies that are aimed at improving and changing stressful situations.

Question 13

What is emotion-focused coping?

Answer 13

The coping stage focused on reducing emotions associated with a stressful event.

Question 14

What is control?

Answer 14

The feeling like you have the power to change your environment or behavior if you want to.

Question 15

What is self-efficiency?

Answer 15

The belief that one can perform adequately in specific situations

Question 16

What are health behaviors?

Answer 16

Any behavior related to health either good or bad.

Question 17

What is social integration?

Answer 17

The size at which your social network or number of social roles (sister, dad, student. etc..)

Question 18

What is social support?

Answer 18

The perception or actually that we have a social network that can help you in times of need and provide us with a variety of use pull resources.

Question 19

What is type A behavior?

Answer 19

A behavior that is categorized by impatience competencies, neuroticism hostility, and anger.

Question 20

What is type B behavior?

Answer 20

Type B behaviors reflect the absence of type a characteristics and are represented less competitive aggressive and hostile behaviors.

Question 21

What is biofeedback?

Answer 21

The process by which physiological signals not normally available to human perception are transformed into easy to under stand groups.

Question 22

What is adherence?

Answer 22

In health, it is the availability of a patient to maintain health behavior presented by a physician. For example, taking a prescription.

Question 23

What is behavioral medicine?

Answer 23

A field similar to health psychology that integrates psychological factors in the treatment of a disease.