Exam 7: Stress, Trauma, and Psychopathology

______ is the study of how psychological factors can influence the immune system.

Maya owes the credit card company $20,000, her adjustable rate mortgage has just gone up, and she has been out of work for 3 months. Today her husband of 15 years just told her he was having an affair and wants a divorce. With that news, she collapsed and had to be taken to the emergency room. According to Hans Selye, Maya is in the ______ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

Kat is a middle-school teacher who survived a mass shooting at her school 3 weeks ago that claimed the lives not only of several of her colleagues but of three of her fifth-grade students. She remembers very little of the event. Kat's lack of memory is an example of a(n) ______ symptom of acute stress disorder.

______ is the body's ability to maintain or achieve stability during times of stress.

Which sequence correctly orders the stages of the general adaptation syndrome, from first to last?

The P in HPA axis stands for the ______ gland.

Psychodynamic therapies refer to the reexperiencing of an event as ______.

Individuals who had been mistreated as children and did NOT have a particular form of the MAO-A gene were ______ likely to be violent and engage in a variety of antisocial behaviors as adults compared with individuals who had been mistreated as children and had the particular form of the MAO-A gene.

Stress is sometimes described as paradoxical mainly because its short-term impact differs from its long-term effect.

Which response to stress is MORE associated with females than males?

The cumulative wear and tear on the body by responding to stressful conditions is referred to ______.

Physical pain and psychological pain use the same basic neural circuits.

Recent studies on the effect of maternal stress on children found that the children of mothers who had experienced abuse during pregnancy showed DNA methylation of the genes associated with the hormone ______.

In general, the hippocampus of individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is ______ than the hippocampus in individuals without PTSD.

With respect to stress responses, fight or flight is to tend and befriend as ______ is to ______.

The fight-or-flight response to stress was first described by ______.

How is the typical female stress response similar to the typical male stress response?

As a part of the physiological response to stress, the hypothalamus produces ______.

Exposure to stressful events activates the same immune responses as exposure to pathogens does.

Allostatic load is NOT increased by ______.