5 Written Questions

1. attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction.
2. A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience.
3. when our arousal response to one event spills over into our response to the next event (Schachter and Singer).
4. the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.
5. emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges.

5 Matching Questions

1. Type B
2. Relative Deprivation
3. Sympathetic Nervous System (of ANS)
4. Stress
5. Health Psychology

1. a a subfield fo psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine.
2. b directs your adrenal glands to release the stress hormones epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline).
3. c the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
4. d the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one campares oneself.
5. e Friedman and rosenman's term ofr easygoing, relaxed people.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.
   1. Lymphocytes
   2. Spill Over Effect
   3. Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
   4. Psychophysiological Illness
2. Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three states-alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
   1. Adaptation-level phenomenon
   2. Coronary Heart Disease
   3. Health Psychology
   4. General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
3. mobilizes your body for action and calms it when the crisis passes. Without any conscious effort, your body's response to danger is wonderfully coordinated and adaptive-preparing you to fight or flee.
   1. Parasympathetic Nervous System (of ANS)
   2. Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
   3. Sympathetic Nervous System (of ANS)
   4. Coronary Heart Disease
4. sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety.
   1. Aerobic Exercise
   2. Biofeedback
   3. Lymphocytes
   4. Catharsis
5. an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.
   1. Emotion
   2. Behavioral Medicine
   3. Biofeedback
   4. Aerobic Exercise

5 True/False Questions

1. Adaptation-level phenomenon → our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.

   True        False

2. Feel-good, do-good phenomenon → our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.

   True        False

3. Type A → Friedman and rosenman's term ofr easygoing, relaxed people.

   True        False

4. Parasympathetic Nervous System (of ANS) → calms the body by inhibiting further release of stress hormones; arousal now diminishes gradually.

   True        False

5. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) → Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three states-alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

   True        False