Week 18 Flashcards
Describe basic terminology used in the field of health psychology
Chronic disease-health condition that persists over time (longer than 3 months)
Mind-body connection-idea that our emotions and thoughts can affect how our body functions
Health-a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being
Explain theoretical models of health as well as the role of psychological stress in the development of disease
Excessive stress causes potentially damaging wear and tear on the body and can influence almost any imaginable disease process
Stress hormones altered=suppress immune system functioning
General Adaptation Syndrome=mobilization of physiological resources phase, a coping phase, and an exhaustion phase when someone fails to cope with stress and depletes their resources
Describe psychological factors that contribute to the resilience and improved health
Coping-address event that is causing stress
Control and self-efficacy-believe that you have control
Social relationships-social support-emotional help, tangible money help
Dispositions and emotions
Stress management
Defend the relevance and importance of psychology to the field of medicine
Focuses on symptoms and illnesses as they arise
Focus on preventions
Biofeedback
physiological signals are transformed into easy to understand graphs, people can use this info to change bodily functioning
Biopsychosocial Model of Health
A reductionist model that posits that ill health is a result of a deviation from normal function, which is explained by the presence of pathogens, injury or genetic abnormality
Emotion-focused coping
coping strategy aimed at reducing the negative emotions associated with a stressful event
General Adaptation Syndrome
a three phase model of stress, includes a mobilization of physiological resources phase, a coping phase, and an exhaustion phase
Type A vs Type B behaviour
Type A is impatient, competitive, hostile, angry
Type B is less
Describe three major forms of happiness and a cause of each of them
Life satisfaction, frequent positive feelings and infrequent negative feelings
Be able to list two internal causes of subjective well-being and two external causes of subjective well being
External-circumstances on where they live, sufficient material resources, sufficient social resources
Internal-personality and temperament, outlook, resilience
Describe the types of societies that experience the most and least happiness, and why they do
North America and Europe has high life satisfaction
Africa is low life satisfaction (economically developed nations help with life satisfaction)
Conflict in nations also has a high affect on this
Wealth vs poor nations
Describe the typical course of adaptations to events in terms of the time course of SWB
Effects of good news wear off over time
Marriage becomes a common thing and the highs wear off
Adaptatation makes us bounce back or not dwell
Describe several of the beneficial outcomes of being a happy person
Health and longevity
Social Relationships
Productivity
Citizenships
Describe how happiness is typically measured
Self-report scales assess happiness
