Chapter 14: Health and Well Being

Placebo

________: physiologically inert substances that have no medicinal value but are thought by the patient to be helpful.

Aerobic Exercise

________: is sustained activity, such as jogging, swimming, and bicycling, that elevates the heart rate and increases the bodys need for oxygen.

Behavior Pattern

Type A(n) ________: who tend to live under great pressure and demand much of themselves and others.

Abstinence Violation Effect

________: in which the person becomes upset and self- blaming over the lapse and views it as proof that he or she will never be strong enough to resist temptation.

Posttraumatic Growth

________ (PTG): experience of major positive change following a crisis.

Transtheoretical Model

________: identified six major stages in the change process.

Subjective well

________- being: peoples emotional responses and their degree of satisfaction with various aspects of their life.

Problem

________- Focused Coping: strategies attempt to confront and directly deal with the demands of the situation or to change the situation so that it is no longer stressful.

Endorphins

________: opiate substances in the brain that reduce pain.

General Adaptation Syndrome

________ (GAS): consists of three phases: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

Multimodal Treatments

________: often combine biological measures (e.g., the use of nicotine patches to help smokers quit) with psychological measures.

Treadmill

Hedonic ________: our capacity to adapt to both good and bad.

cognitive

Stress Response: has ________, physiological, and behavioral components.

Harm Reduction

________: is a prevention strategy that is designed not to eliminate a problem behavior but rather to reduce the harmful effects of that behavior when it occurs.

Emotion

________- Focused Coping: strategies attempt to manage the emotional responses that result from it.

Stressors

________: demanding or threatening situations.

Health Psychology

________: addresses factors that influence well- being and illness, as well as measures that can be taken to promote health and prevent illness.

Relapse Prevention

________: designed to reduce the risk of relapse.

Life Event Scales

________: quantify the amount of life stress that a person has experienced over a given period of time.

Social Support

Seeking ________: turning to others for assistance and emotional support in times of stress.

Health Psychology

addresses factors that influence well-being and illness, as well as measures that can be taken to promote health and prevent illness

Aerobic Exercise

is sustained activity, such as jogging, swimming, and bicycling, that elevates the heart rate and increases the bodys need for oxygen

Type A Behavior Pattern

who tend to live under great pressure and demand much of themselves and others

Multimodal Treatments

often combine biological measures (e.g., the use of nicotine patches to help smokers quit) with psychological measures

Harm Reduction

  is a prevention strategy that is designed not to eliminate a problem behavior but rather to reduce the harmful effects of that behavior when it occurs

Transtheoretical Model

  identified six major stages in the change process

Relapse Prevention

  designed to reduce the risk of relapse

Abstinence Violation Effect

  in which the person becomes upset and self-blaming over the lapse and views it as proof that he or she will never be strong enough to resist temptation

Stressors

  demanding or threatening situations

Stress

a pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses, and behavioral tendencies that occurs in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and the resources needed to cope with them

Life Event Scales

quantify the amount of life stress that a person has experienced over a given period of time

Stress Response

has cognitive, physiological, and behavioral components

Problem-Focused Coping

  strategies attempt to confront and directly deal with the demands of the situation or to change the situation so that it is no longer stressful

Emotion-Focused Coping

strategies attempt to manage the emotional responses that result from it

Seeking Social Support

turning to others for assistance and emotional support in times of stress

Posttraumatic Growth (PTG)

  experience of major positive change following a crisis

Placebo

physiologically inert substances that have no medicinal value but are thought by the patient to be helpful

Endorphins

opiate substances in the brain that reduce pain

Subjective well-being

peoples emotional responses and their degree of satisfaction with various aspects of their life

Hedonic Treadmill

  our capacity to adapt to both good and bad

Downward Comparison

seeing ourselves as better off than the standard for comparison

Upward Comparison

when we view ourselves as worse off than the standard for comparison