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Chapter 5 Stress
- What are some of the effects of stress in the workplace?
- What are some of the ailments associated with stress?
- What economic group experiences stress more often?
- Name some external and internal sources of stress
- Is most stress caused by multiple smaller events or a single major event
- Are there any benefits of stress? What are they?
- Describe the 3 types of stress according to Hans Selye
- Characterize the difference between chronic vs. acute stress; give some examples
- Major life events can be listed in order of level of anticipated stress; what are some of the highest on the list? Holmes & Rahe assignment)
- Who is more prone to stress: men or women? Young students or retired seniors?
- Personality differences: what type of personality have more stressl-prone traits?
- Do persons experiencing or perceiving possible prejudice experience an addiitonal level of stress?
- Can stress be an unconscious response?
- Do persons experiencing high stress tend to be more or less rigid in their responses?
- Can a person experiencing stress be excited or exhilarated?
- What are some of the behavioral effects of stress?
- How do women respond to stress in comparison to men? Who feels stress more often? Men or women?
- Who exhibits "problem-focused" coping?
- What is "hardiness (3 characteristics)? Resilience (5 characteristics)? What are 2 features of commitment?
- 3 methods of reducing stress by managing the environment
- Know thew 5 types of compromise (book mentions 4; I added a 5th in class)
- What might be down-side of conformity?
- Managing stress by altering your lifestyle ( methods)
- Is it useful to experience stress in one's young life. Why? For what purpose?
Chapter 6 Toward Better Health
- What is unembodiment in reference to body image?
- How conscious (aware) are most of us of our body in our waking hours?
- How does the media present "ideal" body images? How does that effect most of us?
- What types of body images cause some distress in men?
- What are current ideals for men/women?
- How accurate are women in terms of what they think men find attractive in the female form?
- What is "systems " theory as applied to mental/physical health
- What does the immune system do?
- Is the link between the mind and body fully understood?
- Can stress cause cancer; or does it weaken the immune system leading to susceptibility to various diseases?
- Can a bad marriage lead to illness?
- What personality traits are found to be beneficial to physical health?
- Persons who are strong in "self-efficacy" evidence what characteristics?
- Name the 3 most common hazardous behaviors that damage health?
- Successful formula for weight loss/stability
- What % of american have a healthy BMI?
- You hear about the "Magic All-Lettuce" diet. What should be your response to the value of this strict program?
- % of peole who still smoke? How many?
- Alcohol and tobacco? A healthy combo?
- How do you keep yourself "primed" with nicotine during a normal day?
- Possible smoking cessation methods?
- Is alcoholism hereditary in nature?
- What % of hospital beds on a given day have a person with an alcohol-related illness?
- What's a psychoactive drug? (discussed in class)
- What are 3 environmental problems possibly leading to illness?
- What's a hypochondriac?
- What function does "downward comparison" serve with illness?
- What are some of the roadblocks to good coping with possible health problems?
- What are, in fact, 3 key factors in influencing treatment success that are universal?
- Ways to improve patient response with treatment providers?
- Know the 10 key factors in ongoing wellness?
- What's a down side of being a so-called "good" patient?
- What are implications of the statement that "...the largest amount of American are killing themselves with a knife and fork"?
- Possible functions of dreaming
- What are "carbs"
- What percent of adult Americans are "active"?
- Is it more important to exercise intensely or regularly?
Chapter 7 Affirmative Aging-Adulthood
- What are the 2 components of human development?
- When does it end?
- What traits of personality tend to change as one ages?
- What are some age-related changes; what are some non-age-related changes?
- When your author says "it's the symbolic aspect of leaving home" that matters, what does she mean?
- How often do children return home after leaving for a period of time?
- What are some "nester" issues/problems?
- In the search for a "career", what two forces must be balanced?
- Change in goals of young career seekers from 50 years ago. Describe.
- What are characteristics of "delays" by young people at this point of early adulthood?
- Relationship of previous "identity" issues with relationships with others
- Who holds the power in a relationship where one is more "committed" than the other?
- Give some characteristics of today's family formation as compared to the past
- Which generation do middle-agers consider (or wish) themselves to be a part of? (sorry for poor syntax)
- Life is 1/2 over realization. How much time do I have left?
- Erikson: a period of generativity
- What is the "unrealized" self?
- What is "yenvy"
- Health consequences of multiple outside interests?
- Turning point for (some adult cognitive capabilities. What is it (approximately)
- Decline in which cognitive components; which may be as good or better?
- Describe male and female climacteric periods
- Do middle-agers appreciate their partners more than young marrieds?
- What are some "euphemisms" for aging?
- What is the tendency to stereotype older persons called?
- What is infantilism?
- Are all the problems of ageing due to physical decline? If no, what are the causes?
- Do you have more fluid intelligence than a senior citizen?
- How about crystallized" intelligence/
- What form of memory is particularly problematic for many seniors/
- What is ILC (Internal Locus of Control"? Give an example of a senior lifestyle with a good ILC?
- Who are more frequently living alone as seniors? Men or women?
- Who copes better? Why
- Where do seniors live commonly?
- Types of retirement? Which is better?
- Difference between "perceived" vs. "actual" income. Implication of difference for senior well-being
- What is "integrity?
- Despair vs. integrity are two poles of Erikson's stage for seniors.
- Role of reminiscing with life's "final chapter" (yes...another euphemism :( for time preceding death)
Chapter 8 Social Psychology
- Social context is the big picture: what is it made of?
- Social cognition, by selective encoding and perception, leads to one's social reality and attitudes Examples?
- Can two people look at the same activity, and see two quite different events? Why? Bias?
- Behavior is driven by internal (dispositional) or external (situational) forces
- How do you decide what causes certain behaviors under conditions of uncertainty?
- Covariation: is causal factor there when behavior occurred....or not?
- Three factors to consider of behavior observed
- Distinctiveness (a specific occasion only?)
- Consistency (happened in past?), and
- Consensus (others?)
- What is the fundamental attribution error? (FAE); what are basic tendencies when gauging causality?
- Cultural aspects of FAE
- Do people make the FAE at their own expense? What is the opposite tendency called?
- What might be impact of FAE when friends involved as partners?
- What happens with a self-fulfilling prophecy? What role does the originator play? What about the subject(s)? An example?
- The Power of the Situation
- Norms, rules and roles: give some examples of each
- Implicit vs explicit rules
- Social norms = should do
- What is informational vs. normative influence?
- Stanford Prison Experiment: Lessons learned?
- Asch experiment basics
- Norm crystallization
- The autokinetic effect: what happens?
- Norm perpetuation and transmission
- Minority opinion aspects
- Group Thinking
- Polarization by the group
- Information influence
- Social comparison-representing an extreme position; effects?
- What is "group think"?
- Obedience to Authority
- Milgram's Experiment
- Level of conformity?
- Variation in results of Milgram's experiments (Fig. 8.4)
- What exactly is an attitude? 3 components of attitudes (think C,A,B)
- Accessibility concept: how applied to attitudes predicting behavior?
- Direct vs. limited experience
- Specific vs. non-specific? What are "exemplars"?
- Persuasion: Elaboration Likelihood Model
- central and peripheral routes to effectively persuade (hi vs. lo elaboration)
- Factors influencing use of direct vs. peripheral routes:
- Timing
- Match between type of attitude and type of "argument"
- Dissonance theory
- when does dissonance occur?
- What do you do if dissonance is significant? (self-persuasion or rationalization)
- Your attitudes change your behavior, but can your behavior change your attitudes? When might this "truism" be useful in your life?
- Some basics of self-perception theory: what is going on?
- Three types of "compliance"?
- Prejudice is learned or genetic?
- What are your "in-groups"? "outgroups"?
- Can you favor your "in-group", but not be prejudiced toward others?
- Do the brains of persons with high tendency toward prejudice differ from those with a low tendency toward prejudice?
- Racism as an outgrowth of prejudice
- What is modern racism and modern sexism?
- Are some aspects of stereotyping unconscious?
- Reversing prejudice
- Contact hypothesis
- Elements of the Robbers Cave study
- Altruism/Prosocial Behavior
- Roots
- Facilitators of altruism: kinship, etc.
- Reciprocal altruism
- Role of distress when favors offered
- Indirect altruism
- Prosocial Behavior
- Motives (4)
- Empathy-altruism factor
- Genovese Effect
- Who was Kitty Genovese?
- Role of bystanders
- Diffusion of responsibility
- Need to:
- Notice
- Label as emergency
- Feel responsible
- Aggression
- Physical vs. social aggression differences; genetic bases
- Role of serotonin and cortisol
- Impulse vs. instrumental aggression differences
- Personality traits linked to aggression: which ones?
- Role of the Situation: blocked in reaching goals
- Escalation w/direct provocation
- Cultural connectivity or no?
- Exposure to violence a factor
- Family history
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