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Unit 13 Mental and Physical Health Flashcards

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________ _________ is the study of how psychology, behavior, and cultural factors affect health and well-being

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Health Psychology

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________________ is the study of how your mind and body affect your immune system and health

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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________ is stress that positively motivates

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Eustress

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________ is stress that negatively affects people

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Distress

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When you are stressed your body releases a hormone called __________ to help you deal with the stress

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Cortisol

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What is General Adaptation Syndrome (by Hans Selye)

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The idea that we go through stress in 3 specific stages

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What is the first stage of General Adaptation Syndrome

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Alarm- body prepares for stress (sore throat)

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What is the second stage of General Adaptation Syndrome

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Resistance-body shoots addrenilline to help fight stress

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What is the third stage of General Adaptation Syndrome

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Adrenaline wears off and you have no energy left

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One of the most successful ways to deal with stress is called the _____ ____ ______ approach. this is when people deal with stress by attending to their own needs and the needs of others

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Tend and Befriend

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________ is defined as alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, and behavioral methods

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Coping

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What is problem based coping

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Seeing stress as a problem and working on solutions until one is found

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What is emotion-focused coping

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Managing emotional reactions by avoiding or ignoring the stressor through breathing, meditation, therapy, etc.

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What are the negative health outcomes of stress

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Stress can lead to the body not being able to fight cancer cells as good, leading to Coronary Heart Disease

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A _______ _ personality is someone who is hard-driven, verbally aggressive and anger prone. They typically handle stress poorly

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Type A

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A _____ _ personality is someone who is easy-going and relaxed. They typically handle stress well

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Type B

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What 4 things can help overcome stress

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Having self control, being optimistic, having an internal locus of control, and having social support

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At what point is a behavior classified as a Disorder (3 things and YOU NEED ALL 3)

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Deviant-strange from culture you’re in
Distressful- It bothers the person doing it
Dysfunctional- It bothers others

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What were ancient treatments of Psych Disorders like

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They were very barbaric due to the fact that people didn’t really know what they were

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What is the Medical Perspective in Psych Disorders

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Looks at psych Disorders as having a biological or physical cause

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What is the Biopsychological Perspective in Psych Disorders

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Assuming that biological, social-cultural, and psych factors combine and interact to produce disorders

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The ________-_______ _____ says that people have a genetic predisposition for disorders that can be triggered by environmental factors

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Diathesis-Stress Model

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What is true about Nature and Nurture in Psych Disorders

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Some disorders are equally spread across cultures. Others are concentrated in certain areas

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What is Ataque de Nervios and where is it found

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Usually found in Latin America
Is a syndrome of intense emotional distress which can often cause shaking

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What is Taijin Kyofusho and where is it found
Found in Japan Is a fear of others judging you (body/behaviors) as undesirable
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Today we use the _________ __ ________ _____ __ ____ ____ 5th addition (DSM-5-TR) to identify and describe psych Disorders in america
Diagnostics and statistical manual of mental disorders
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Internationally people use _____ _______ ______ __ ______ _____ to classify disorders
WHO's international classification of mental disorders
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What is the problem with labeling disorders
The label may come to define who the person is. But they are also good because it can help with treatments
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_________ _________ ________ is a condition of persistent and uncontrollable tenseness and apprehension. One shows autonomic nervous system arousal and often is unable to identify or avoid the cause of these feelings
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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_____ ______ _______ is a condition with intense fear and avoidance of social situations
Social Anxiety Disorder
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A _______ _______ _______ is marked by persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that disrupts behaviors
Specific Phobia Disorder
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What are 5 common types of Phobias
Agoraphobia: fear of situation like crowds, wide open spaces, or anywhere one could experience loss of control/panic Acrophobia: fear of heights Claustrophobia: fear of small spaces Hemophobia: fear of blood Arachnophobia: fear of spiders
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Persistence of unwanted thoughts, __________, and urgents to engage in senseless rituals that cause distress, _____________, is known as _________ ________ ________ (OCD)
Obsession, Compulsions, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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_______ _______ is a disorder characterized by difficulty parting with possessions regardless of their value
Hoarding Disorder
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What defines PTSD (6 things)
Four or more weeks following a traumatic event as a patient shows: haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawals, jumpy, anxiety, sleep problems Post traumatic growth is where you better yourself as a result of trauma
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What is the cognitive perspective's explanation of Anxiety disorders
Anxiety can be a result of interpreting things as anxiety producing and overpowering your thoughts and actions
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What is the behavioral perspective's explanation of Anxiety disorders
Anxiety is learned through conditioning, or observing others who are anxious
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What is the biological perspective's explanation of Anxiety disorders
Anxiety may have been important in our species survival, so natural selection kept it. So therefor it may be brain issues leading to anxiety
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What are Dissociative Disorders
A disorder in which your consciousness or awareness becomes confused
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What is Dissociative identity disorder (DID) and what do people think of it
When a person exhibits two or more distinct and altering personalities, formally called multiple personality disorder. DID had not had many cases outside of North America which leads critics to argue it's made up in the patients mind
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________ _______ occurs when someone has gaps in their memory beyond normal forgetting (forgetting who they are)
Dissociative Amnesia
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________ _____ ____ ____ is when someone has the symptoms of Dissociative Amnesia and then takes off from their
Dissociative Amnesia with Fugue
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When signs of severe depression exist for two weeks or more and are not caused y drugs or medical conditions it is known as _________ ______ _______
Major Depressive Disorder
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________ ________ ________ is a bit less sever than major depressive disorder but can often last longer (2 years)
Persistent Depressive Disorder
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What is Bipolar Disorder (Manic-depressive disorder)
When a patient umps between periods of depression and extreme mania (3 forms)
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What is Bipolar 1
Most severe, extreme mania then depression
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What is Bipolar 2
Less severe, milder mania and depression
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What is Bipolar 3
When someone goes back and forth between mania and depression
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What is the biological (nature) perspective on Mood disorders
Genetics, Neurotransmitter levels (low/high norepinephrine and serotonin) the brain fires more during mania and fires less when depressed
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What is the Social-Cognitive (nurture) perspective on Mood disorders
Believing that you are always going to fail, rumination, being pessimistic. Depression is a cycle that is hard to break out of
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What is Schizophrenia (symptoms) (7 total)
Symptoms: disorganized thinking, delusional thinking, delusions of grandeur, paranoia, hallucinations, apathy, repetitive meaningless behaviors/no movement at all
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What do psychologists believe about schizophrenia (6 total)
Disorganized thoughts occur because of a lack of selective attention It's hard for patients to focus on one thing (also real/unreal) Positive symptoms are things Schizo. patients have that normal people don't Negative symptoms are things Schizo. patients don't have that normal people do Acute schizo. (develops quick) Chronic Schizo (develops slow)
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Causes of Schizophrenia (4 total)
Dopamine Hypothesis (too much dopamine) Abnormal brain activity in frontal cortex, thalamus, and amygdala (may also look different) Sometimes mothers getting sick during pregnancy can increase chances Also other environmental factors
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________ _ personality disorder are characterized by eccentric or odd characteristics
Cluster A
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What is Paranoid Personality disorder (Cluster A)
suspicious and distrustful
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What is schizoid personality disorder (Cluster A)
Social detachment
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What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder (Cluster A)
Intense social discomfort
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________ _ personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, emotional, and erratic characteristics
Cluster B
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What is Histronic Personality disorder (Cluster B)
Need for attention
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What is Narcissistic personality disorder (cluster B)
Grandiosity (over inflated self importance)
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What is Borderline Personality Disorder (Cluster B)
Impulsive, unstable relationship, unstable self-image
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What is Antisocial Personality Disorder (cluster B)
Disregard rights and feelings of others (psychopaths/sociopath)
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________ _ personality disorders are characterized by anxious and fearful characteristics
Cluster C
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What is avoidant personality disorder
Feeling inadequate
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What is Depended Personality Disorder
Submissive behavior. emotional neediness
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What is Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
Fixation on orderliness and need to perfection
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_________ _______ is when someone maintains a starvation diet despite being underweight and often having an inaccurate self-perception
Anorexia Nervosa
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_________ _______ is characterized by binge eating and purging
Bulimia Nervosa
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is characterized by binge eating followed by remorse
Binge Eating Disorder
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When do neurodevelopmental disorders form and what are the 4 categories
Develop in early childhood 1) Specific Learning disorder (dyslexia) 2)Motor disorders (tourette's) 3)Autism Spectrum Disorder (limits communication, social interactions, and has rigidly fixed interests/interactions) 4)ADHD- extreme inattention/hyperactivity + impulsivity

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