Chat with AIExam 7: Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Conditions
State and explain the three stages of Hans Selye's (1956) General Adaptation Syndrome. Does this model treat stress as stimulus or as response?
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VerifiedThis is a stress-as-response model. In the alarm phase, the body attempts to adapt by mobilizing its defences. If the challenge persists, the body then enters the resistance phase. In this phase the body actively fights or copes with the challenge through immune and neuroendocrine changes. If the challenge persists still further then the body enters the exhaustion phase. At this point the body has depleted its energy store and cannot maintain resistance. It is at this stage that the body may succumb to a disease of adaptation.
Describe the plumbing analogy for the human cardiovascular system (be sure to include in your description both systolic and diastolic blood pressure).
(67) VerifiedThe heart is a pump, the vasculature is a hose. As the heart pumps, the blood constituents will be transmitted through the tube in cycles that correspond to the pumping action. The peak of the wave of blood flow corresponds to contraction of the left ventricle of the heart at a point during the cardiac cycle, called the systole. When the pump is at rest (the point called the diastole) blood will still be flowing but at a much reduced pressure. So, the blood is always flowing but depending on when the pump was last primed (the heart last contracted; the pressure level is higher or lower. The pressure can be affected by either the amount of blood or the diameter of the tubing.
In a study conducted by Lazarus and colleagues, the researchers found that by ___________ the scenes in films depicting rites of passage, arousal was decreased.
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Cardiovascular reactivity refers to how much an individual's cardiovascular function changes in response to a psychologically significant stimulus.
(81) Which of the following are most closely tied into the regulation of the cardiovascular system?
(74) Describe the functioning of the endocrine system. Include the relevant organs, method of transmission, and both the nature and role of cortisol.
(89) ___________ is defined as the application of psychological methods and theories to understand origins of disease, individual responses to disease and the dimensions and determinants of good health.
(57) Therapists might find it difficult to steer clients towards methods ___________ of dealing with threats because ___________ methods are negatively reinforced (i.e., they provide a rapid escape from unpleasant thoughts / feelings associated with the problem).
(87) Which of the following is true regarding psychological influences on body tissues?
(76) Frasure-Smith, Lespérance, and Talajic (1993) found that depression soon after the heart attack
(73) According to Alexander (1950) the role psychological factors might play in the development of ulcers is
(76) One of the effects produced by prolonged release of cortisol is neuronal damage that may contribute to dementia.
(78) The theorist ___________ argued that the biomedical model of disease should be expanded to a biopsychosocial model.
(81) In the alarm phase of Hans Selye's (1956) General Adaptation Syndrome, the body
(67) A study on predictability conducted by Weiss (1970) discovered that:
(77) Cognitive-behavioural techniques aimed at stress management do so by
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