Exam 16: Applying social psychology to health

The general adaptation syndrome, discussed in the text, is a model for understanding ____.

Amira notices a lump in her breast, but convinces herself that it was always there.As she continues to examine her breasts monthly, the lump remains and seems larger, but each time Amira finds a way to explain it away - the lump is just a result of the uncomfortable bra she was wearing; the lump is connected to her menstrual cycle, and so forth.In fact, she never has the lump investigated because she interprets the lump in terms of her belief that she is 'healthy'.Amira has succumbed to which social psychological error in thinking?

Early definitions of stress tended to focus on ____ factors.

The tend-and-befriend response is ____.

Maria opposes mandatory vaccination of children and often cites 'evidence' of the harm caused by vaccines while apparently ignoring their safety and efficacy in the vast majority of instances.This is consistent with _____.

Your text describes a study in which researchers recruited single, sexually active student volunteers to take part in a campaign (actually the experimental manipulation) supposedly designed to get other students who were just becoming sexually active to practise safe sex.The volunteers were asked to develop a persuasive speech about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and safer sex that was then videotaped.Researchers found that the students who made the taped speeches were more likely to use condoms, a finding that is consistent with ____.

When we believe the event will be extremely demanding and will put us at risk for damage, we make a(n) ____ appraisal.

The three broad segments of health psychology are _____.

According to the general adaptation syndrome, long-term stressors ____.

If everyone in North America stopped smoking today, the death rates due to cancer would drop by close to ____.

Health psychology is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of psychology BEST described as dedicated to ____.

The definition of health, as given in the text's Application module on health, includes ____.

It is estimated that ____ of all deaths in the United States could have been postponed or avoided had people changed unhealthy behaviours.

According to Lazarus, during ____ appraisal, we ascertain whether an event is positive, negative, or neutral, and if negative, whether it is harmful, threatening, or challenging.

Are there any differences in health between people who have solid social support and people who don't?

Research on the effects of movie watching on teens' smoking behaviour (i.e.watching popular movies containing instances of smoking) found that ____.

Suppose that you are nearly mugged while walking down a crowded city street.Your body quickly reacts.Your heart rate speeds up, your breathing becomes more intense, and you feel pumped up to either attack the mugger or flee the scene.It would be MOST accurate to say that your ____ was activated in this situation.

The ____ model is a value-expectancy theory in which the values and expectations have been reformulated from abstract concepts into health-related behaviours and concepts.

The health belief model discussed in the text proposes that ____.

_____ applied the concept of homeostasis to the study of human interactions with the environment.