Exam 7: Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Conditions

Identify one similarity and one difference between the psychological factors affecting medical conditions and the somatic symptom and related disorders.Specify how mind interacts with body in each category of disorder.

Briefly explain Lazarus and colleagues' (Lazarus & Folkman,1984)transactional model of stress.Does this model treat stress as stimulus or as response?

The three body systems that are responsive to psychosocial variables are:

The body system responsive to psychosocial variables involved in the production of hormones is the

The psychosocial vulnerability model suggests that hostile people

Explain the functioning of the autonomic nervous system.Include in your explanation the functioning of both the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches.

A sign is a unmeasurable subjective experience of illness.

A mechanism is

Type A people in general show more of the following except

Primary appraisal involves

Outline the differences between signs and symptoms.

Which of the following are most closely tied into the regulation of the cardiovascular system?

The final phase of Hans Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome is the----------phase.

The early years of research concerning the role of psychological processes on physical health were known as

Individuals with an internal locus of control typically believe themselves

Cognitive-behavioural techniques aimed at stress management do so by

The stress reactivity paradigm is used

The brain structure that makes up part of the HPA axis is the