W3 Chapter 5.4 Emotions and Health

Question 1

What are the four characteristics of Type A behaviour pattern?

Answer 1

1. Excessive competitive drive
2. Extreme commitment to work
3. Impatience or time urgency
4. Hostility

Question 2

What two negative health effects do men with Type A personality experience?

Answer 2

1. Twofold increase in coronary artery disease
2. Eightfold increase in heart attack

Question 3

What are the two characteristics of **Type D “distressed) personality type **?

Answer 3

1. Tendency to experience negative emotions
2. Tendency to feel insecure and anxious

Question 4

How does depression affect immune function?

Answer 4

It disrupts it

Question 5

What is a risk factor?

Answer 5

A variable that increases the likelihood of a specific outcome occurring later

Question 6

What are the three steps by which long term stress leads to depression?

Answer 6

1. Long term stress actives the immune system triggering production of proinflammatory cytokines
2. Long term exposure to these cytokines can lead to changes in the brain that manifest as symptoms of depression
3. Depression then leads to more stress further enhancing the inflammatory response

Question 7

What other form of negative affect other than depression is linked to CHD?

Answer 7

Anxiety

Question 8

What is Positive Psychology?

Answer 8

A school of psychology that focuses on human traits and resources that have direct implications for our physical and mental well-being

Question 9

What three human “resources” are associated with positive psychology?

Answer 9

1. Humour
2. Gratitude
3. Compassion

Question 10

Why is it beneficial to be able to regulate your emotions?

Answer 10

Because it results in less pronounced increases in proinflammatory cytokine production in response to stress