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| What is health as defined by the disease/biomedical model? |
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| Body functions well unless accident, abnormality or disease process |
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| Definition of health as a social determinant |
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| health/lack of health is a complex interplay of individual, local, environmental and macro situational |
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| What are the social determinants of health? |
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| Psychological (beliefs, attitudes, etc.), social (peers, family, circumstance, work, etc.) and biological (e.g. (physical health disability, genetic vulnerabilities, etc.) |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| What is general adaptation syndrome? |
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Definition
Composed of three stages:
- Alarm: fight or flight
- Resistance: coping, but vulnerable
- Exhaustion: physical problems
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| What does the body do in response to stress (i.e. alarm phase in GAS)? |
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Definition
- Activates epinephrine and norepinephrine
- HPA (Hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal cortex) energives blood sugar with release of cortisol (can lead to weight gain/high bloood pressure)
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Term
| What is a potential long term effect of exhaustion (in terms of GAS)? |
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Definition
| Adnreal fatigue (tiredness, trouble falling asleep, salt/sugar craving, stimulant use like caffeine) |
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Term
| What does epidemiology study? |
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Definition
| Distribution and patterns of health-events, health characteristics and their causes or influences across a population |
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Term
| What does a stess curve for things of moderate difficulty look like? |
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Definition
| Inverted parabola (low stress and way too much stress means low performance and moderate stress means high performance) N shape |
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| What does a stess curve for things of little difficulty look like? |
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Definition
| Almost linearly increasing but vertical drop near high stress |
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| What does a stess curve for things of moderate difficulty look like? |
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Definition
| Almost vertical increase then linear decrease |
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| In the face of uncontrollable or unavoidable stressor we give up |
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Definition
Extreme release of pressure
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Term
| What is the marshmellow task? |
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Definition
| Used to test self-regulation in children |
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Term
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| General expectation of whether the results of your actions are under your control or not (internal vs. external) |
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| Modify reality by chaning things other than yourself |
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| Modify reality by changing yourself |
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