Exam 12: Health and Stress

About one-__________ of African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanic Americans live in poverty.

????__________ has been found to reduce sarcopenia.

Working a second job to pay off credit cards is an example of __________

During the alarm stage of the general adaptation syndrome, __________

In a(n) __________conflict, a person must choose between two desirable goals.

Describe four ways to promote wellness in one's life. Give one example for each way discussed.

People who eat a great deal of fast food are at risk for obesity and???? __________

????__________ is an age-related process in which the muscles deteriorate.

Do you think that a person has to have only one personality style (A, B, or D), or can people have facets of more than one style at different times? If you think this is possible, what has to happen to bring out qualities of a different personality style in one individual? Give an example of a time when you acted in a way that was not consistent with your own personality style. pp. 423-424, LO=12.12

A disorder resulting from exposure to a major stressor, with symptoms of anxiety, nightmares, poor sleep, reliving the event, and concentration problems, lasting for more than one month is called __________

Psychoneuroimmunology is the study of __________

Alcoholics are about three times as likely to die in an automobile accident as non-alcoholics.

Describe the stages of the general adaptation syndrome. What problems occur with continued exposure to stress?

What is Type A personality? Based on current evidence, what is the main personality characteristic involved with heart disease and Type A behavior? How can such a person decrease the possibility of heart disease?

The army of highly specialized cells and organs that works to identify and search out foreign invaders such as fungi, viruses, parasites, and bacteria is called the __________

????__________ has been proposed as a way of accounting for group differences in health.

After hearing on the radio that his normal route to work is obstructed by a major traffic accident, Thuy decides to consider other routes He realizes that he is in time to get off the highway before he hits traffic, go a back way, and still be at work with time to spare. Which part of Lazarus's theory has Thuy demonstrated in considering a new path to work?

After we have decided that a certain event is a stressor, we must decide how we will deal with it and what resources are available for coping with the stressor. This process is called __________

Some of the effects of alcohol on the brain can be partially reversed with long-term abstinence.

Which of the following is NOT a stage in Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?