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Abnormal Psychology Chapter 6 Questions with Explanations of Answers Latest Update 2024 (1)
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Abnormal Psychology Chapter 6Cognitive appraisal - ✅✅ -an individual's perception of a potentially stressful event which
weighs the event's potential threat against resoures available for managing the threat
Psychophysiology - ✅✅-the study of physical disorders caused or exacerbated by stress
or emotional factors
Somotoform Disorders - ✅✅-Disorders in which physical symptoms are caused by
psychological disorders
stressors -✅✅-Stressful events ranging from minor annoyances to traumatic experiences
Life events - ✅✅-life changes both positive and negitive that require adaptation
Social Readjustment Rating Scale - ✅✅-a scale used to rate stress by quantifying the
amount of adaptation required by a variety of life events
Chronic Stress - ✅✅ -Ongoing Stress related to difficult everyday life circumstances such
as poverty or long-term family strife
Daily hassles -✅✅-minor stresses of everyday life
Prospective - ✅✅-Research based on date=a that is collected a the events being studied
are occuring, rather than recalling them retrospectively
Psychophysiological Disorders - ✅✅-physical illnesses caused by or exacerbated by
stress
fight-or-flight response - ✅✅ -an extreme form of sympathetic nervous system arousal that
prepares humans to flee or attack when threatend with danger
General Adaptation Syndrome - ✅✅ -a three-stage response - alarm, resistance, and
exhaustion - that occurs when animals (including humans) are faced with chronically
stressful circumstances
Psychoneuroimmunology - ✅✅
-a field that investigates that interactio between emotional
phenomena and immune system functioning
Viral challenge studies - ✅✅-Studies in which research participants are deliverately
exposed to an infectous agent in order to assess their immune system response
antigens - ✅✅
-foreign substances such as viruses or bacteria that typically trigger an
immune system respons
immunosupression - ✅✅-sub-normal functioning of the immune system
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