Health Test Chap 1, 2, 3
To prevent sleep problems, which of the following behaviors should be avoided?
-Eating a full meal before bedtime.
Which is NOT useful in promoting restful sleep?
-Exercising immediately before bedtime to tire yourself out.
What contributed the to increased life expectancy in the earlier twentieth century?
-Vaccines and antibiotics
What percentage of college students say they don't feel rested most days of the week?
61%
The duration of sleep that is associated with optimal health and functioning is..
8 to 9 hours
Consumate love
A relationship that combines intimacy, compassion, and commitment.
Intellectual health
Ability to evaluate and analyze information, reason clearly, and learn from life experiences.
Emotional health
Ability to manage and express feelings appropriately; possessing self-esteem, self-efficiency, and self confidence.
Accountability
Accepting responsibility for personal decisions, choices, and actions.
Subjective well-being
An uplifting feeling of inner peace
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Anxiety disorder that involves recurrent, irrational thoughts and repetitive behaviors.
Environmental health
Appreciating the external environment and how its health affects people, working to preserve, protect, and improve environmental conditions.
Social health
Aspect of psychological health that involves interactions with others.
Spiritual health
Aspect of psychological health that relates to having a sense of meaning and purpose in one's life.
Self efficiency
Belief in one's ability to perform a task sucessfully.
self-efficacy
Belief in one's own ability to accomplish a certain task or action.
To avoid or reduce jet lag, which os the following should NOT be done?
Book a "red eye" flight.
Hostility
Cognitive, affective, and behavioral tendencies toward anger, distrust, and cynisism.
Social captial
Collective value of all the people in your social network and the likelihood of those people providing social support when you need it.
Overload
Condition in which a person feelings overly pressured by lifes demands.
Stress inoculation
Consciously preparing ahead of time for potential stressers
generalized anxiety disorder
Constant sense of worry that may cause restlessness, tension, and difficulty concentrating.
The six dimensions of health
Correct! interact continuously
Self-talk
Custumary manner of thinking to yourself, the "voice in your head"
Social support
Degree and nature of interpersonal contacts
Self-nurturance
Developing individual potential through a balanced and realistic appreciation of one's self worth.
Health
Dynamic process of achieving ones potential in each of the dimensions that determine well-being.
Monogamy
Exclusive sexual involvement with one partner.
Chronic mood disorder
Experience of persistent emotional states, such as sadness, despair, and hopelessness.
Emotional health
Experiencing and appropriately managing ones feelings.
Social phobia
Fear and avoidance of social situations.
Spiritual health
Having a sense of connection to something greater than oneself; having meaning or purpose in life
Social support
Help we receive from people in our social network in the form of emotional, instrumental, informational, and appraisal support.
Epinephrine
Hormone that stimulates body systems in response to stress.
Cognition
Inner thoughts and feelings
Emotions
Intensified feelings or complex patterns of feelings.
Apprasial
Interpretation and evaluation of information provided to the brain by senses.
Modeling
Learning specific behaviors by watching others perform them.
Dysthymic disorder
Less severe form of depression characterized by fatigue, pessimism, or short temper.
Predisposing factors
Life experiences, knowledge, cultural and ethnic heritage, current beliefs and values.
Common-law marraige
Long-term cohabitation that is considered legally binding in some states.
Downshifting
Making lifestyle changes to simplify one's life and reduce stress.
Bipolar disorder
Mood disorder characterized by alternating episodes of mania and depression
Relational connectedness
Mutually rewarding face to face contact.
Which disorder involves excessive, intrusive sleepiness?
Narcolepsy
Social integration
Need for someone with whom we share worries and concerns.
Social bonds
Network of people and services with whom you share ties and from whom you recieve support.
Self-esteem
One's sense of self respect and self worth.
Social network
People you know who can provide social support when needed
Psychological hardiness
Personality trait characterized by a sense of control and commitment and willingness to embrace challenges.
Reinforcing factors
Presence or absence of support, encouragement, or discouragement from others.
Belief
Principle or idea that a person accepts as true
Life expectancy
Projected lifespan remaining at a given age
Mortality
Proportions of death to population
Attraction theory
Proximity, similarity, reciprocity, and physical attraction influence who a person falls in love with.
Fisher's theory
Quality of love relationship is related to the level of intimacy, passion, and commitment.
which of the following is commonly used to treat insomnia?
Regression therapy
Open relationship
Relationship in which parters are sexually involved with others outside their relationship.
Intimate relationships
Relationships with family members, friends, or romantic partners, characterized by behavioral interdependence, need fulfillment, emotional attachment, and emotional availability.
Mediation
Relaxation technique that focuses on controlled breathing and getting in touch with the inner self.
Panic attack
Severe anxiety reaction in which a speciific sitation causes terror
Self-disclosure
Sharing personal feelings or information with others.
Acute stress
Short-term physiological response to an immediate real or percieved threat.
Readiness
State of being prepared and willing to begin a course of action.
Psychosocial stressors
Stressors that can include hassles, frustration and conflicts, overload, and stressful environments.
Biofeedback
Technique to teach self-monitoring and control of psyical repsonses to stress
Learned optimism
Technique used to overcome pessimism and negative thinking.
Sternberg theory
Theories of love and attraction based on brain circuitry and chemistry
Mental health
Thinking aspect of psychological health
General adaptation syndrome
Three phases that make up the body's physiological response to stressors.
Seasonal affective disorder
Type of depression that only occurs during winter months
Shaping
Using a series of small steps to gradually make a change in behavior.
Imagined rehearsal
Using mental imagery to practice performing a task or action with the goal of improving actual performance.
Allostatic load
Wear and tear on the body caused by prolonged or excessive stress responses.
Wellness
achievement of the highest level in each other the dimensions of health based on ones limitations.
24 hour cycle in which you sleep, wake, and preform habitual behaviors is known as your.......
circadian rhythm
Katherine is an energetic, confident student who is not afraid to stand up in front of the class and read her essay aloud. She trusts that even if others don't agree with her point of view, they will still value her as a person and a friend. These traits best demonstrate Katherine's positive
emotional health
Background distressor
environmental stressors of which people are often unaware
Sympathomimetics
food or other substances that can produce stress like responses when consumed.
Chemical messengers released from endocrine glands that travel in the bloodstream to a site where they help regulate body functions:
hormones
Passive listening
listening but not providing either verbal or nonverbal feedback to the speaker.
Coping
managing events or conditions to lessen the physical or psychological effects of excess stress
Competitive listening
more interested in explaining our own point of view than in understanding someone elses.
Active listening
not only hear the words but also trying to understand what is really being said
Chronic stress
ongoing state of physiological arousal in response to one or more stressors over prolonged period of time.
Happiness
positive state of enjoying life and actively embracing the world around you.
Enabling factors
skills, abilities, or available resources
A disorder is which breathing is briefly and repeatedly interrupted during sleep is....
sleep apnea
A clinical assessment of sleep patterns conducted ina . sleep center is a....
sleep study
Jill has many friends, is respected by her coworkers, and maintains a great relationship with her boyfriend. Her ability to interact with others is an example of which dimension of health?
social
Distress
stress that can have a detrimental effect on health; negative stress
Eustress
stress that presents opportunities for personal growth; positive stress.
Social health
successfully developing satisfyinging and productive relationships with family, friends, co-workers, and others.
The contemporary definition of wellness is:
the achievement of the highest level of health possible in each of several dimensions
cognitive restructuring
the modification of thoughts, ideas, and beliefs that contribute to stress
Cohabitation
two people in a romantic relationship who live together but are not married.
Lack of sleep can seriously impair a person's
visual acuity