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NU 334 Exam 1 Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Psychopath - Ans:✔✔-mentally ill or unstable person, especially one showing aggressive antisocial
behavior
Now called antisocial personality disorder
Mental Health - Ans:✔✔-The successful adaptation to stressors from internal and external environment,
evidenced by thoughts, feelings and behaviors
-age appropriate
-congruent with local and cultural norms
Mental illness - Ans:✔✔-A non successful adaptation to the stressors from the internal and external
environment
Horwitz - Ans:✔✔-
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Cultural relativism - Ans:✔✔-the practice of judging a culture by its own standards
Erikson - Ans:✔✔-Claims that stress/ conflicts occur within each stage of development
Psychoanalytic - Ans:✔✔-Stress occurs with libidinal issues associated with each development
Frued's Theory - Ans:✔✔-Psycho sexual begins as an infant
Attachment theory - Ans:✔✔-Stress occurs when successful attachment does not occurs during
childhood
Genetic Model - Ans:✔✔-Adaptation to stress impeded as a result of genetic composition
Physiologic - Ans:✔✔-Adaption to stress impeded when pathophysiological events occur within the body
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs: - Ans:✔✔-Stress occurs when basic needs unmet
What is a Stressor? - Ans:✔✔-State of disequilibrium/disharmony between stress and coping
abilities(paraphrased)
Physiologic
Environmental
Cultural
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Change/even fear of change
Self-actualization - Ans:✔✔-as fulfillment of one's highest potential
Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) - Ans:✔✔-Holmes and Rahe's measure of stress, which ranks 43
life events from most to least stressful and assigns a point value to each.
Lazarus - Ans:✔✔-Lazarus stated that cognitive appraisal occurs when a person considers two major
factors that contribute in his response to stress. These two factors include:
1.The threatening tendency of the stress to the individual, and
2. The assessment of resources required to minimize, tolerate or eradicate the stressor and the stress it
produces. * Precursor to CBT
Physical Responses to Stress - Ans:✔✔--increased heart rate and blood pressure
-rush of adrenaline
-trembling, sweating, rapid breathing
-adrenal glands produce cortisol and adrenaline
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-pupils dilate
-circulatory system produces blood-clotting factor
-digestive system slows and liver releases glucose into bloodstream
The General Adaptation Syndrome - Ans:✔✔-Stage 1: Alarm Upon encountering a stressor, body reacts
with "fight-or-flight" response and sympathetic nervous system is activated. Hormones such as cortisol
and adrenalin released into the bloodstream to meet the threat or danger.The body's resources now
mobilized.
Stage 2: Resistance Parasympathetic nervous system returns many physiological functions to normal
levels while body focuses resources against the stressor. Blood glucose levels remain high, cortisol and
adrenalin continue to circulate at elevated levels, but outward appearance of organism seems normal.
Increase HR, BP, breathingBody remains on red alert.
Stage 3: Exhaustion If stressor continues beyond body's capacity, organism exhausts resources and
becomes susceptible to disease and leads to fatigue, burn out, depression, anxiety, decreased stress
tolerance, worsening of psychiatric symptoms
When are the physiologic stages of the fight or flight system initiated? - Ans:✔✔-During the Alarm
Reaction stage of the general adaption theory
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NU 334 Exam 1 Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Psychopath - Ans:✔✔-mentally ill or unstable person, especially one showing aggressive antisocial
behavior
Now called antisocial personality disorder
Mental Health - Ans:✔✔-The successful adaptation to stressors from internal and external environment,
evidenced by thoughts, feelings and behaviors
-age appropriate
-congruent with local and cultural norms
Mental illness - Ans:✔✔-A non successful adaptation to the stressors from the internal and external
environment
Horwitz - Ans:✔✔-
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Cultural relativism - Ans:✔✔-the practice of judging a culture by its own standards
Erikson - Ans:✔✔-Claims that stress/ conflicts occur within each stage of development
Psychoanalytic - Ans:✔✔-Stress occurs with libidinal issues associated with each development
Frued's Theory - Ans:✔✔-Psycho sexual begins as an infant
Attachment theory - Ans:✔✔-Stress occurs when successful attachment does not occurs during
childhood
Genetic Model - Ans:✔✔-Adaptation to stress impeded as a result of genetic composition
Physiologic - Ans:✔✔-Adaption to stress impeded when pathophysiological events occur within the body
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs: - Ans:✔✔-Stress occurs when basic needs unmet
What is a Stressor? - Ans:✔✔-State of disequilibrium/disharmony between stress and coping
abilities(paraphrased)
Physiologic
Environmental
Cultural
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Change/even fear of change
Self-actualization - Ans:✔✔-as fulfillment of one's highest potential
Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) - Ans:✔✔-Holmes and Rahe's measure of stress, which ranks 43
life events from most to least stressful and assigns a point value to each.
Lazarus - Ans:✔✔-Lazarus stated that cognitive appraisal occurs when a person considers two major
factors that contribute in his response to stress. These two factors include:
1.The threatening tendency of the stress to the individual, and
2. The assessment of resources required to minimize, tolerate or eradicate the stressor and the stress it
produces. * Precursor to CBT
Physical Responses to Stress - Ans:✔✔--increased heart rate and blood pressure
-rush of adrenaline
-trembling, sweating, rapid breathing
-adrenal glands produce cortisol and adrenaline
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-pupils dilate
-circulatory system produces blood-clotting factor
-digestive system slows and liver releases glucose into bloodstream
The General Adaptation Syndrome - Ans:✔✔-Stage 1: Alarm Upon encountering a stressor, body reacts
with "fight-or-flight" response and sympathetic nervous system is activated. Hormones such as cortisol
and adrenalin released into the bloodstream to meet the threat or danger.The body's resources now
mobilized.
Stage 2: Resistance Parasympathetic nervous system returns many physiological functions to normal
levels while body focuses resources against the stressor. Blood glucose levels remain high, cortisol and
adrenalin continue to circulate at elevated levels, but outward appearance of organism seems normal.
Increase HR, BP, breathingBody remains on red alert.
Stage 3: Exhaustion If stressor continues beyond body's capacity, organism exhausts resources and
becomes susceptible to disease and leads to fatigue, burn out, depression, anxiety, decreased stress
tolerance, worsening of psychiatric symptoms
When are the physiologic stages of the fight or flight system initiated? - Ans:✔✔-During the Alarm
Reaction stage of the general adaption theory
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