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| Stress is when a person's daily life is distupted or threatened due to an adjustment of circumstances. |
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| What are some vague examples of stress? |
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| Catastrophes, major life changes, chronic stressors, and acute stressors. |
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| Stress mediators are . . . ? |
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| coping or social support. |
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| What are some of the changes a human will undergo during stress changes? |
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| Changes in physical, emotional, cognitive, and behaviour. |
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| Why was Hans Selye so important? |
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| In the 1940's, he coined the term "stress" and he also discovered stess reactions are "nonspecific". |
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| What is SRR and the significance behind it? |
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| SRR stands for social readjustment ratin scale, and it was criticized when it was developed because it was weighted more to the negative side of the scale. |
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| Define the 'burnout syndrome'? |
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a) physical and emotional exhaustion
b) chronic fatigue, weakness and low energy
c) reduced self-efficacy and feelings of competence. |
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| What is Yerkes-Dodson's Law? |
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| task performance increases with intensity of stress response up to a point, after which stress causes performance to deteriorate. |
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| The hypothalamus sends signals to the ________ and ________ to activate the ______ system and release stress hormones throughout the body. |
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| autonomic nervous system, pituitary glands, endorine. |
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Deviance
Distress
Dysfunction
Danger |
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| What is the mental even that causes personal suffering? |
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| What is the mental event that interferes with daily functioning? |
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| what is the mental even that becomes dangerous to oneself or others? |
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| What is the mental event that are different from those that are considered normal in out place and time? |
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| What is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiartrist? |
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| A psychologist is a person who has a doctorate in a psychological feild and follows a theoretical theory. A psychiartrist is a person who is specialized in the medical field and follows a medical model. |
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| Give an example of selevtive abstractions. |
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| "It doesn't matter that I got a raise and a promotion. I have to go to work an hour earlier." |
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| Give an example of 'disqualifying the positive'. |
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| "Anyone can teach, I'm nothing special." |
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What is 'mental illness'?
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| It is the result of maladaptive learned behaviours. |
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| What is classical conditioning? |
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| It is paring an aversive stimulus with a neural stimulus which leads to a fear of the neural stimulus. |
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| What is operant conditioning? |
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| It is behabiours that lead to rewarding outcome which tend to be repeated. I.e. avoiding crowds reduces anxiety, therefore you fear crowds. |
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| Fear and anxiety both share the same physiological features and both are adaptive. |
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| Describe gerneralized anxiety disorders. |
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| experience excessive anxiety under most circumstances and worry about practically anything. |
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| What is the name for persistent and unreasonable fear of a particular object, activity, or situation that will interfere with daily life? |
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What are panic disorders?
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| periodic short bursts of panic, that reach peak within 10 minutes, and gradually pass. |
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| Obsessive compulsive disorder are persistant thoughts, ideas and images that seem to invade a person's consciousness or repetative behaviours that people feel they must perform to reduce anxiety. |
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| It is the loss of conflict with reality. |
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| They are patterns of extremely disturbed thinking, emotions, perception, and behaviour. |
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| What is rapidly shifting from one topic to another, believing their inchoherant statement makes sense? |
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| Perceiving stimuli that are not physically present is an example of what? |
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| What are some negative symptoms of schizophrenia? |
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| restrictions or absence of normal thoughts, perceptions, and behaviours. |
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| What is psychomotor symptoms? |
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| Awkward, repeated, or catatonic gestures. |
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