PSYC 236 definitions 2

Question 1

behavioural medicine

Answer 1

application of psychology to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease

Question 2

health psychology

Answer 2

study how psychological factors impact etiology and treatment of illness, predict wellbeing

Question 3

transactional model of stress

Answer 3

stress occur when an individual is exposed to a challenging event, the person appraises the demands of the event and appraises their own resource for adjusting to these demands, and the person initiates a strategy for coping

Question 4

problem focused coping

Answer 4

there is a plan, and the plan is executed

Question 5

emotion focused coping

Answer 5

avoidance of the stress, which feeds back to the stress making it worse as it has not been delt with

Question 6

Seligman’s Safety signal hypothesis

Answer 6

believe that you can control stress (seen in the rats with the levers)

Question 7

guided mastery

Answer 7

model positive behaviours and create opportunities to practice these behaviours in challenging situation

Question 8

biofeedback

Answer 8

help the person identify signs of bodily processes associated with stress and learn ways of controlling them, often through relaxation

Question 9

cognitive techniques for physical disorders

Answer 9

reduction of catastrophizing cognition, provide basic education about illness to reduce concern, help the person engage in positive coping

Question 10

alogia

Question 11

asociality

Answer 11

retreating into a lonely world

Question 12

apathy

Question 13

anhedonia

Question 14

affective flattening

Question 15

avotion/apathy

Answer 15

a lack of motivation (decreased ability to initiate and persist in activities) and lack of interest in daily activites

Question 16

anhedonia

Answer 16

diminished capacity to anticipate and experience pleasurable emotions

Question 17

asociality

Answer 17

a lack of interest in social interactions, leading to social withdrawal

Question 18

alogia

Answer 18

poverty of speech

Question 19

affective flattening

Answer 19

lack of emotional expressivity and diminished facial expression

Question 20

premorbid

Answer 20

before the onset of the disease

Question 21

prodromal phase

Answer 21

the onset of the psychotic disorder (genetic males onset is typically in their late teens/early twenties)

Question 22

clinical forensic psychology

Answer 22

clinical psych at interface of psychology and law

Question 23

pathways to ADPD

Answer 23

ADHA -> ODD -> CD -> (maybe) SUD -> ADPD

Question 24

personality

Answer 24

pervasive characteristic that influences all aspects of out lives

Question 25

personality disorder

Answer 25

characteristic way a person behaves and thinks that cause significant distress to themselves and/or others

Question 26

current controversies with the DSM

Answer 26

• high gender bias (high comorbidity, low validity of diagnosis, high overlap in etiologies)

Question 27

emotional vulnerability

Answer 27

easily activated, aroused, high intensity of experience, slow return to baseline

Question 28

invalidation environment

Answer 28

label emotional expressions unjustified, or inaccurate, simplify ease of solutions, periodically reinforces extreme expression

Question 29

chronic emotional dysregulation

Answer 29

inability to understand, label, accept, or modulate one’s emotional experience to match goals of the present context

Question 30

dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)

Answer 30

helping people create ‘a life worth living’

Question 31

dialectical

Answer 31

an interpretive method routed in the practice of dialogue between two people with different ideas and trying to persuade one another of their position

Question 32

HPA axis in stress response

Answer 32

manages the release of cortisol