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Chapter 10 Psychology Exam
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Psychology
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02/18/2013

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Where did psychology develop from?
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Philosophy
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What is psychology?
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The scientific Study of behavior and mental process
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What are the 4 Goals of Psychology
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Description, Explanation, Control, Prediction
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What is the early perspective and basic defintion of psychology
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Gestalt psychologist believe that people naturally seek out patterns of wholes in available sensory information.
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Who became the first female President of APA
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Mary Calkins
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Who was the first female to earn a PHD in psychology?
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Margaret Floyd
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What is biofeedback?
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Biofeedback is very useful for achieving stress reduction, reducing anxiety and alleviating physical tension.
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What is Stress Appraisal?
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This is how a person responds to stress and the minds ability to manage stress
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What is spontaneous remission?
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It is known as a recovery that without known reason or cause
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What is the general adaptation syndrome
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This is described as the bodys short term or long term reactions to stress.
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What are the three types of personalities?
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What is the definition of stress?
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It is the physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral response to threating or challenging events.
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What is the cause of stress?
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Stressors
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What is a negative stress and a example?
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Negative stress is called distress. Studying for an exam. School or Work
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What is a positive stress and example
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Eustress and getting married is stressful but exciting at the same time.
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Stress arises less depending on what.
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How we appraise it or how we respond to it. You can either take the challenge or take it as a threat.
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This is an unpredictble, large scale event that is extreme adaptation, adjustment and feeling of threat.
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Catastrophe
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This disorder is a short term stress disorder that you have anxiety, nightmares, poor sleep and concentration problems
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Acute Stress Disorder
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This disorder last over 30 days and gives symptoms such as nightmares poor sleep, anxiety.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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These are frustrations delays, irratations, minor disagreements that dont bother you at first but as they build up they stress you out.
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Hassles
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Stress response involves what?
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Mind and Body
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This person found extreme cold, lack of oxygen and emotion arousal all trigger the release of stress hormones from adrenal glands.
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Walter Cannon (1929)
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What are the three steps to GAS?
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Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion
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What is GAS Syndrome
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It is discovered that the body has a common pattern of responding to a variety of stressors.
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What is Phase 1 in Gas
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Alarm and Shock
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What is Phase 2 in Gas
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Resistance to stress
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What is Phase 3
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Exhaustion to stress
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What are some ways to deal with stress
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Withdraw away from it. Pull back. Conserve your energy
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Under stress some people often both provide support to and seek support from others mostly women. what is the called?
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Tend and befriend
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This study of psychological factors impact on the immune system
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Psychoneuroimmunology
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This suppresses viruses and destroys tumor cells
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Natural killer cell
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These are white blood cells
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Lymphocytes
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When you are stressed what happens to your system?
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Your immune system becomes less active and is flooded with stress hormones. Your body spends more time fight off the stress hormones rather than the actual bacteria. This causes the wounds to heal more slowly and you are more vulnerable to colds.
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Whats speeds up the transition from HIV to AIDS
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Stress and negative emotions
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What can help Control AIDS
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reducing stress
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Stress may weaken
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a persons ability to fight off cancer. Studies are inconclusive. There is danger in hyping reports on attitudes and cancer.
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Stress is closely Lined to
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Coronary heart disease
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The leading cause of death in North America
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Coronary Heart Disease
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What is Type A personality
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Ambitious, time conscious, hardworking, often hostile
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What is Type B personality
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Relaxed, less competitive than Type A, slow to anger
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What is Type C personality
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Pleasant, repressed, internalizes anger/anxiety
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What are major problems for Type A
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negative emotions and anger
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What percentage of Men had heart attacks after a study of their personality type.
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69%
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This thrives on stress but lacks anger/hostility of Type A
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Hardy Personality
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This addresses stress directly by changing the stressor or the ways we interact with it
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Problem-focused coping
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This is attempting to reduce stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction
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Emotion-focused coping
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This is our sense of seeing ourselves in control of our enviornment
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Personal Control
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This is when a animal or human learns when to unable to avoid repeated aversive events
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Learned helplessness
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This is the perception that chance or outside forces beyond personal control determine our fate
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External locus of control
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The perception that we control our own fate
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Internal locus of control
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This is the ablility to control impulses and delay gratification
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Self Control
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People who expect positive outcomes
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Optimists
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People who expect negative results
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Pessimists
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4 Main things to manage stress
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Aerobic Excercise, relaxation, mediation, Spirituality
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