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Health psychology |
A subfield of psychology that focuses on maintaining health and preventing / treating illness. |
Behavioral, social, and cognitive factors. |
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Behavioral medicine |
Develop and integrate behavioral and biomedical knowledge to promote health and reduce illness. |
behavioral, social, and biomedical factors. |
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Buopsychosocial Model of Health |
The integration of biological, psychological, and social factors in dealing with health-related behaviors. |
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Health behaviors |
Practices that have an impact on physical well-being. |
Exercise, eating right, and brushing your teeth. |
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Theory of reasoned action |
Specific intention, positive attitude, and approval of social group. |
What's needed to make life changes |
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Theory of planned behavior |
Specific intention, positive attitude, and approval of social group. Plus the perception of control over the outcome. |
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Icek Ajzen |
Modified the theory of reasoned action to include the fact that not all of our behaviour are under our control |
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What are the five stages in the Stages of Change Model? |
Precontemplation Contemplation Preparation Action Maintenance |
PC PAM |
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Social relationships |
Probably the most important variable in predicting health. |
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Social support |
Feedback from others that one is loved, cared for, valued, and included in a network of communication. |
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What are three benefits of social support? |
Tangible Assistant, Information and Emotional Support. |
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Tangible assistance |
Family and friends can provide goods and services and stressful circumstances. |
Gifts of food given after a loved one dies. |
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Social sharing |
Turning to others who act as sounding boards or a willing ear. |
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Personality characteristics |
Conscientiousness, personal control, self-efficacy, and optimism. |
High levels in each of these traits leads to healthier, longer lives. |
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Stress |
Physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioral responses to events that are perceived as threatening or challenging. |
How you feel at college |
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Stressors |
Events that cause stress reactions. |
College finals |
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Distress |
Stress is caused by unpleasant happenings. |
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Eustress |
Stress that is caused by positive happenings |
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Personal control |
You feel that you are responsible for and in control of your own behaviour and choices. |
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Learned helplessness |
After repeated exposure to uncontrollable aversive events, organisms will develop a tendency to remain in stressful situations, even when espcape is possible. |
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What are sources of stress? |
Pressure, personal control, frustration, and conflict. |
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Conflict |
Having to choose between two options, where both options are good, bad, or both. |
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Approach - approach conflict |
Torn between 2 desirable goals |
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Avoidance - avoidance conflict |
torn between two undesirable goals |
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Approach - avoidance conflict |
Choosing yes or no about a goal that has both good and bad things about it. |
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General adaptation syndrome |
Hans Selves description of what happens when you make strong demands on the body. |
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Alarm stage |
The body mobilizes its resources |
First stage of stress |
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Resistance stage |
The body strives mightily to endure the stressor. |
The second stage of stress |
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Exhaustion stage |
Resistance becomes depleted |
The last stage of stress |
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Type A personality |
Workaholic, perfectionist, competitive, easily annoyed. |
More likely to have unhealthy heart conditions |
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Type B personality |
Easy going, slow to anger, sloppy, and disorganized |
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Type C personality |
Internalizes feelings, wants everyone to get along, and avoids conflict. |
Mostly to get cancer |
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Hardy personality |
Thrives on stress |
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Cognitive appraisal |
An individual interpretation of an event as either harmful, threatening or challenging, and the person's evaluation of whether he / she has the resources to deal with the event. |
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Primary appraisal |
Estimating severity of the stressor and classifying it as a threat, a challenge, or a lot. |
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Secondary appraisal |
Estimating resources to deal with stressor |
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Coping |
A kind of problem solving that involves managing stressful circumstances, expending effort to solve life's difficulties and seek to reduce stress. |
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Problem - focused coping |
Cognitive strategy squarely facing one's troubles and trying to solve them. |
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Emotion - focused coping |
Trying to manage onesie motional reaction to a stressor, rather than focusing on the root problem. |
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