5 Written Questions

1. health psychology
2. psychosomatic
3. behavioral medicine
4. competitive, hard driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people
5. hypertension

5 Matching Questions

1. who expanded Cannon's work during 40 years of research?
2. Seyle's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases--alarm, resistance, exhaustion
3. what 2 types of blood cells does the immune system have
4. What 2 ways can the immune system err in?
5. positive effects of stress

1. a it can respond too strongly, and it may attack the body's own tissues, causing arthritis or allergic reaction. or, it could underreact, which may allow dormant herpes virus to erupt or cancer cells to multiply
2. b General adaption syndrome
3. c can mobilize the immune system for fending off infections and healing wounds, motivates us to conquer problems
4. d B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes
5. e Hans Seyles

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. coronary heart disease
   1. who confirmed that stress response is part of a unified mind-body system in 1929
   2. the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle, the leading cause of death in many developed countries
   3. the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
   4. the death of a loved one, loss of a job, leaving home, marriage, divorce
2. catastrophes
   1. unpredicted large-scale events, such as war and natural disasters that nearly everyone appraises as threatening
   2. In Friedman and Roseman's study, who were Type A participants?
   3. who expanded Cannon's work during 40 years of research?
   4. the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
3. studied tax accountants to find the correlation between heart disease and stress
   1. what are alternates to fight-or-flight
   2. What 2 ways can the immune system err in?
   3. What was Friedman's and Roseman's study?
   4. negative effects of stress
4. Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
   1. What 2 ways can the immune system err in?
   2. what 2 types of blood cells does the immune system have
   3. the death of a loved one, loss of a job, leaving home, marriage, divorce
   4. the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health
5. stress
   1. what 2 types of blood cells does the immune system have
   2. the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle, the leading cause of death in many developed countries
   3. the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
   4. experiencing high blood pressure due to stress

5 True/False Questions

1. what are alternates to fight-or-flight → can harm us if stress is prolonged or severe, can put at risk of chronic disease, post traumatic stress disorder

   True        False

2. everyday annoyances such as traffic, aggravating housemates, long lines, too much to do, etc. → significant life change

   True        False

3. In Friedman and Roseman's study, who were Type B participants? → easygoing, relaxed people

   True        False

4. the death of a loved one, loss of a job, leaving home, marriage, divorce → B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes

   True        False

5. "mind-body" illness, any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches → psychosomatic

   True        False