IDIS 199 FINAL EXAM VERIFIED STUDY GUIDE
Wheel of Life - Answers - A simple yet powerful tool to help you consider how your life is
balanced by recognizing how your time is spent
Connectedness - Answers - A personal sense of belonging
Loneliness - Answers - The sensation or unpleasant feeling that accompanies the
perception that one's social needs are not being met by the quantity or quality of one's
social connections
Increased cortisol
Increased sleep disturbances
Reduced activity
Increased risk of heart disease
Strained immune system - Answers - Effects of loneliness
Social prescribing - Answers - A holistic approach to health and mental health
supporting non-clinical community-based activities to improve social connectedness
An approach for connecting people with non-medical resources (i.e., resources within
the community) to help with the health problems they are experiencing
Social isolation - Answers - An objective measurement of the number of people you
interact with; a lack of quantity of social connections.
Isolation involves being unwillingly alone
Loneliness is a physical issue; emotions are physical and mental experiences - Answers
- Difference between isolation and loneliness
Poor health, alcohol and substance abuse, and suicidal thoughts. - Answers - Physical
impacts of isolation
Reduced confidence, feelings of diminished self-worth, despair, depression,
worthlessness, and self-harm
Social isolation is one of the strongest predictors of depression in later life - Answers -
Emotional impacts of isolation
Shortened attention span or forgetfulness - Answers - Cognitive impacts of isolation
Recreation - Answers - Refreshment by means of some pastime, agreeable exercise, or
the like.
A pastime, diversion, exercise, or other resource affording relaxation and enjoyment.
, Directed attention - Answers - A form of focused attention that requires great effort to
remain on task and process the information.
This type of attention is mentally demanding, as more appealing external information
must be blocked out.
For example, driving in heavy traffic, study, computer work, phone calls at work, etc.
Involuntary attention - Answers - Effortless
This type of attention is held when the subject is interesting and, therefore,
automatically holds your attention.
A pleasurable way of processing environmental information and, therefore, comes at no
cost to the human in way of tiredness.
For example, watching animals or birds, looking at nature scenes or water, watching
sports, or listening to music.
Directed attention fatigue (DAF) - Answers - A neuropsychological phenomenon
indicating overuse of the brain's inhibitory system necessary for maintaining focused
attention - such as when you are studying
Attention Restoration Theory (ART) - Answers - You think better (or restore your
attention) when you spend time in or connect with nature.
Endorphins - Answers - Exercise releases "feel-good" chemicals, called
_____, that are beneficial to one's overall well-being.
Problem-focused coping - Answers - A way of coping through which people actively
seek information or help to tackle a problem directly or diminish its impact.
Wildlife - Answers - The animals and plants growing in natural conditions.
Improvements to health through increased physical activity.
Reductions in stress and anxiety.
Increased positive mood and self-esteem.
A better and healthier social life. - Answers - If individuals increased their contact with
environments rich in wildlife, there are four main results...
Being away, extent, fascination, compatibility - Answers - Four key properties of ART
Flow state - Answers - The state you get into when you are so engaged in a creative
task that your sense of time disappears, and you temporarily forget yourself and your
"internal chaos"
Galleries, Libraries, Arts, Museums - Answers - GLAM
Longevity, meet major challenges, and non-clinical problems - Answers - What does a
GLAM lifestyle help with?
Wheel of Life - Answers - A simple yet powerful tool to help you consider how your life is
balanced by recognizing how your time is spent
Connectedness - Answers - A personal sense of belonging
Loneliness - Answers - The sensation or unpleasant feeling that accompanies the
perception that one's social needs are not being met by the quantity or quality of one's
social connections
Increased cortisol
Increased sleep disturbances
Reduced activity
Increased risk of heart disease
Strained immune system - Answers - Effects of loneliness
Social prescribing - Answers - A holistic approach to health and mental health
supporting non-clinical community-based activities to improve social connectedness
An approach for connecting people with non-medical resources (i.e., resources within
the community) to help with the health problems they are experiencing
Social isolation - Answers - An objective measurement of the number of people you
interact with; a lack of quantity of social connections.
Isolation involves being unwillingly alone
Loneliness is a physical issue; emotions are physical and mental experiences - Answers
- Difference between isolation and loneliness
Poor health, alcohol and substance abuse, and suicidal thoughts. - Answers - Physical
impacts of isolation
Reduced confidence, feelings of diminished self-worth, despair, depression,
worthlessness, and self-harm
Social isolation is one of the strongest predictors of depression in later life - Answers -
Emotional impacts of isolation
Shortened attention span or forgetfulness - Answers - Cognitive impacts of isolation
Recreation - Answers - Refreshment by means of some pastime, agreeable exercise, or
the like.
A pastime, diversion, exercise, or other resource affording relaxation and enjoyment.
, Directed attention - Answers - A form of focused attention that requires great effort to
remain on task and process the information.
This type of attention is mentally demanding, as more appealing external information
must be blocked out.
For example, driving in heavy traffic, study, computer work, phone calls at work, etc.
Involuntary attention - Answers - Effortless
This type of attention is held when the subject is interesting and, therefore,
automatically holds your attention.
A pleasurable way of processing environmental information and, therefore, comes at no
cost to the human in way of tiredness.
For example, watching animals or birds, looking at nature scenes or water, watching
sports, or listening to music.
Directed attention fatigue (DAF) - Answers - A neuropsychological phenomenon
indicating overuse of the brain's inhibitory system necessary for maintaining focused
attention - such as when you are studying
Attention Restoration Theory (ART) - Answers - You think better (or restore your
attention) when you spend time in or connect with nature.
Endorphins - Answers - Exercise releases "feel-good" chemicals, called
_____, that are beneficial to one's overall well-being.
Problem-focused coping - Answers - A way of coping through which people actively
seek information or help to tackle a problem directly or diminish its impact.
Wildlife - Answers - The animals and plants growing in natural conditions.
Improvements to health through increased physical activity.
Reductions in stress and anxiety.
Increased positive mood and self-esteem.
A better and healthier social life. - Answers - If individuals increased their contact with
environments rich in wildlife, there are four main results...
Being away, extent, fascination, compatibility - Answers - Four key properties of ART
Flow state - Answers - The state you get into when you are so engaged in a creative
task that your sense of time disappears, and you temporarily forget yourself and your
"internal chaos"
Galleries, Libraries, Arts, Museums - Answers - GLAM
Longevity, meet major challenges, and non-clinical problems - Answers - What does a
GLAM lifestyle help with?
