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Notes and lecture Class: CEDP 316 - PSYCHOLOGY OF ADJUSTMENT; Subject: Couns, Educational, & Dev Psyc; University: Eastern Washington University; Term: Spring 2010;
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holds that physical illness is caused by complex interaction of biological, psychologica, and sociocultural factors. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 Chronic is long term Acute is short term Stress affect illnesses..duh fucking duh TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 Personality impacts heart disease, not psychologist that are medical doctors. Type A- sensitivity to time, always in a hurry, anger and hostile, easily aggrevated TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 Health psychology is concerned with understanding how biology, behavior, and social context influence health and illness. Prevention, treatment, and the cause. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Hostility (also called inimicality) is a form of angry internal rejection or denial in psychology. Overtly aggressive action. Cynical , mistrusting thought.
results from a reduction in blood flow though the coronary arteries, which supply the heart with blood. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 THREE ELEMENTS: strong competitive oreintation impatience and time urgency anger and hostility TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 RELAXED, patient, easygoing, amicable behavior. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 persistant feeling sof sadness, and dispair, ususally called psychological disorder. Emotional dysfucntion can cause heart disease TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 Malignant cell growth, which may occur in many organ systems in the body.
body monitors fat cell levels to keep them TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 Weight tends to drift around the level at which the constellation of factors that determine food consumptions and energery expenditure achieve equiliburium. TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 immune system is gradually weakened and eventually disabled by the human immunedeficiency Drugs_ HIghly active antiretroviral therapy- people can live longer TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 Active complex problem solving: 1. decide the physical sensations are symptoms 2. apparent illness warrents medical attention 3. trouble making actual arrangments for medical care, complicated and time consuming. Reason why they delay: 1. misinterpert and downplay the significant of thier symptoms 2. fret about looking silly 3. worry about wasting the doctors time 4. reluctant to disrupt thier plans 5. waste time on trivial matters TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 progressive decrease in a person's responsiveness to a drug with continued use
when a person must continue to take a drug to aviod with drawl illness which occurs when drug use is stopped TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 when a person must continue to tqake a drug to satisfy intense mental and emotional craving for it. TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 excessive dose of drug..can die TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 derived from opium that are capable of relieving pain TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 sleep inducing drugs that tend to decrease central nervous system and behavioral activity