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| Chronic stressors, nagative affectivity, environmental stressors, and perceived control are all examples of what? |
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| Are environmental stressors classified as short term stress or long term stress? |
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| Is it true or false that events may be less stressful when there is nothing we can do? |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| A reaction to stress consisting of three phases. |
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| During which phase of the General Adaptation Syndrome does the body mobilize resources to respond to threat? |
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| During which phase of the General Adaptation Syndrome does the activation of response systems and reestablishment of homeostasis with stressor occur? |
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| During which phase of the General Adaptation Syndrome do the consequences of prolonged stress occur such as; the body's resistance collapses and your physiology is compromised? |
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| When does activation of the H-P-A axis occur? |
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| Hypothalamus, pituitary gland, adrenal gland |
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| What does H-P-A stand for? |
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| The endocrine and neural changes in response to a stressor are adaptive short-term responses. Is this the logic or illogic of the stress response? |
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| Activating an acute stress response can result in a profound enhancement of learning and/or memory. Is this the logic or illogic of the stress response? |
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| The endocrine system and neural changes, if activated for too long, too often (i.e., chronic stress), or for no reason (i.e., psychological and socail stressors) result in stress-related disease. Is this the logic or illogic of the stress response? |
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| Chronic activation of the stress response results in a profound decrement in learning/memory. Is this the logic or illogic of the stress response? |
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| Factors that can affect response to stress |
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| Sex, geneticsm prenatal environment, postnatal environment, prior experience, socail support, and psychological components of the stressor are all examples of what? |
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| Is it true or false that in humans, men tend to exhibit greater increase in cortisol to psychological stressors? |
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| Refers to amelioration of effects of subsequent stressors gained by exposure to a transient stressor. |
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| Refers to potentiation of effects of subsequent stressors caused by prior exposure to a repeated stressor. |
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| Is it true or false that repeated experience can desensitize response to the same stressor? |
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| Is it true or false that repeated experience can sensitize response to novel stressors? |
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| Is it true or false that low rank, high social stress, and lack of social recognition is associated with increased baseline cortisol concentrations? |
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| Is it true or false that social support appears to serve as a "stress buffer" or as a form of stress immunization? |
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| Predictability, control, and outlet for frustration |
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| What are the three psychological components of the stressor? |
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| What can predict incidences of coronary heart disease? |
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| Is it true or false that people reporting less stressful lives are more likely to get active viral infections? |
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| Is it true or false that overwhelming stress can impair functioning of immune system? |
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| Is it true or false that perceptions of stress may be more meaningful than actual stress? |
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| Level of circulating cortosol |
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| What predicts memory and hippocampal atrophy in elderly? |
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| Shared expectations about how people should think, feel, and behave. |
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| A set of norms for how a person in a social position ought to behave. |
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| Refers to a change in attitude or behavior in response to a group norm. |
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| Normative social influence |
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| The need for approval or acceptance and going along with group expectations are examples of what? |
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| Informational social influences |
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| Not knowing what to do so you look to others and following the actions of those you admire are examples of what? |
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| Is it true or false that conformity drops dramatically if even one other person disagrees with the group (even if they choose an incorrect answer)? |
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| Factors that affect conformity |
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| Group size and the presence of dissenter are what? |
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| Compliance to the orders of authority. |
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| What percentage of participants administered over 300 volts in Milgram's Study? |
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| Factors that affect obedience |
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| Remoteness of victims, closeness and legitimacy of authority figure, prestige of investigator, and other individuals presence are all examples of what? |
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| Does more obedience occur when the learner is "out of sight" or "in sight"? |
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| People work less hard in a group when no one person's efforts are identified. |
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| People sometimes lose their individuality when they become part of a group. Occurs when people are not self-aware or when there is diffusion of resposibility. |
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| The study of how diseases emerge from chronic stress. |
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| Persons experience anxiety when faced with a mismatch between their attiyudes and their behaviors. |
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| In the Asch line-jusging experiments, what percent of participants conformed at least one time? |
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| Diagnosis can be difficult because some people suffer from more than one disorder. |
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| Bipolar disorder, depression, and seasonal affective disorder are all examples of what kind of disorders? |
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| Phobias, OCD, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder are all examples of what type of disorders? |
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| Dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, and dissociative identity disorder are all what type of disorders? |
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| Sociopathic personality disorder (or antisocial disorder) and schizophrenia are what types of disorders? |
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| Feelings of sadness, self-blame, sense of worthlessness, and absense of pleasure. May be accompanied by a change in sleep patterbs and appetite, motor symptoms, difficulty with concentration. |
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| Sever symptoms of depression that occur for at least 2 weeks without remission and without any precipitating event. |
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| Less sever symptoms of depression that last at least 2 years. |
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| Up to what percent of individuals will suffer from some sort of depression in their lives? |
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| Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) |
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| Seasonal depression, related to amount of daylight. Person reports depression in winter months when daylight decreases. Characterized by increased appetite and sleep. Begins in Fall and remits in Spring. Treated with exposure to artificial light. |
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| Cycling of modd between periods of mania and depression, may have normal periods in between. |
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| Person appears in high spirits. Merry, talkative, charming, self confident. Jumps from onw plan to another, seems unable to sit still. May be easily frustrated. |
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| Hypomania escalated into perceived invincibility. Person may stay up all night, have few social or personal inhibitions, and may go shopping or on spending sprees and engage in risky bahvior. |
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| Depressed people blame themselves for bad events or outcomes. They think bad events are not isolated incidents and always happens to them. |
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| Integrated perspective on mood disorders. |
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| An intense or irrational fear. |
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| Person has obsessive worry that creates anxiety and cannot be stopped. Person engages in compulsive acts in an effort to counteract and control this obsessive worry. |
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| Generalized anxiety disorder |
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| Anxiety is free-floating and not related to anything in particular. Patient appears visibly worried and fretful, may feel inadequate, have difficulty concentrating, sleeping and show physiological stress symptoms. Most common anxiety disorder, may affect up to 6 percent of the population. |
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| Patient has intermittent, but severe attcks of anxiety (called panic attacks). May lead to fear of going outside the home (or agoraphobia) due to anticipation of panic attacks in public or dangerous places. |
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| A stress reaction to a traumatic event that lasts more than a month. |
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| Person is unabe to remember some life events. |
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| Person with dissociative amnesia who is in a fugue state an may wander from home or be lost. |
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| Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality) |
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| Person created two or more distinct personalities. |
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| Anticocial personality disorder |
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| People with this disorder are often called "sociopaths" or "psychopaths". |
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| Positive symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| Delusions, hallucinations, and thought disorders are all examples of what? |
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| Negative symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| Blunted affect, anhedonia, poverty of speech, and lack of motivation are all examples of what? |
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