PSYC 365 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++ LATEST UPDATE
Deadliest disease
tuberculosis
Type A
Driven for success, prone to stress
type b
not prone to stress
Rational thinking
scared of planes, but still drives. Rationalizing that you drive which kills more people,
makes you think rationally. "Safest place you can be is an airplane"
Behavioural Medicine:
a branch of medicine concerned with the relationship between health and behaviour
Health Psychology (1980)
the application of psychological principles to the diagnosis and treatment of illness as
well as to people's attempts to maintain health and well-being
Prominent topics in the field's development:
1.Behaviourism (N. Miller)
2. Cognition and Personality (Krantz)
3. Coping Styles (Rodin and Salovey)
4.Psychoneuroimmunology (Cohen & Hebert)
,Neal miller
Traced development of biomedical perspective on illness to the germ theory
Psychologists adopting a behavioral perspective believe that our health is affected
primarily by what we do rather than what we think
From germ theory came the development of antibiotics to fight these germs. The
biomedical perspective took full flight, realizing considerable success by reducing
illnesses to a cellular level and treating them with medicines.
First, the success of antibiotics brought about a change in the profile of life-threatening
illnesses, and lifestyle replaced infection as the number one killer.
Second, an emphasis on the technical aspects of medicine replaced a consideration for
emotional factors in health
paradox: The paradox is that technical medicine, so revered for its success in treating
germ based conditions, is relatively ineffective against health problems caused by
lifestyle and other psychological factors
Gradient of Reinforcement
The greater the time between behavior and reinforcement the weaker the behavior will
be
,Example:
when we work out we don't suddenly get fit
Delayed gratification
Term used by behaviorists to describe a situation in which there is a time lag between a
behavior and reinforcement
Example:
The time between working out and losing weight
Compliance rates are higher for regiments bringing about a rapid reduction in
improvements then they are for those in which improvement takes longe
Cognition and Personality: Krantz & colleges
focuing on stress and cognitive restructuring
Cognitive restructuring: Changing people stress prone interpretations of
events
Psychology of smoking: Reducing stress
Relationship between cardiovascular health and behaviour
Eating disorders:
biopsychosocial approach
, Compliance:
patient-physician communication
Rodin & Salovey
focus on how people cope with all aspects of illness
Coping styles is Suzanne Miller's notion of
monitors and blunters
Monitors are information seekers
Blunters are information avoiders
The coping style of each type of person is consistent with that person's desire for
receiving or avoiding information
Coping styles
Monitors:
information seekers
coping styles:
Blunters
information avoiders
Cohen and Herbert (1996) Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++ LATEST UPDATE
Deadliest disease
tuberculosis
Type A
Driven for success, prone to stress
type b
not prone to stress
Rational thinking
scared of planes, but still drives. Rationalizing that you drive which kills more people,
makes you think rationally. "Safest place you can be is an airplane"
Behavioural Medicine:
a branch of medicine concerned with the relationship between health and behaviour
Health Psychology (1980)
the application of psychological principles to the diagnosis and treatment of illness as
well as to people's attempts to maintain health and well-being
Prominent topics in the field's development:
1.Behaviourism (N. Miller)
2. Cognition and Personality (Krantz)
3. Coping Styles (Rodin and Salovey)
4.Psychoneuroimmunology (Cohen & Hebert)
,Neal miller
Traced development of biomedical perspective on illness to the germ theory
Psychologists adopting a behavioral perspective believe that our health is affected
primarily by what we do rather than what we think
From germ theory came the development of antibiotics to fight these germs. The
biomedical perspective took full flight, realizing considerable success by reducing
illnesses to a cellular level and treating them with medicines.
First, the success of antibiotics brought about a change in the profile of life-threatening
illnesses, and lifestyle replaced infection as the number one killer.
Second, an emphasis on the technical aspects of medicine replaced a consideration for
emotional factors in health
paradox: The paradox is that technical medicine, so revered for its success in treating
germ based conditions, is relatively ineffective against health problems caused by
lifestyle and other psychological factors
Gradient of Reinforcement
The greater the time between behavior and reinforcement the weaker the behavior will
be
,Example:
when we work out we don't suddenly get fit
Delayed gratification
Term used by behaviorists to describe a situation in which there is a time lag between a
behavior and reinforcement
Example:
The time between working out and losing weight
Compliance rates are higher for regiments bringing about a rapid reduction in
improvements then they are for those in which improvement takes longe
Cognition and Personality: Krantz & colleges
focuing on stress and cognitive restructuring
Cognitive restructuring: Changing people stress prone interpretations of
events
Psychology of smoking: Reducing stress
Relationship between cardiovascular health and behaviour
Eating disorders:
biopsychosocial approach
, Compliance:
patient-physician communication
Rodin & Salovey
focus on how people cope with all aspects of illness
Coping styles is Suzanne Miller's notion of
monitors and blunters
Monitors are information seekers
Blunters are information avoiders
The coping style of each type of person is consistent with that person's desire for
receiving or avoiding information
Coping styles
Monitors:
information seekers
coping styles:
Blunters
information avoiders
Cohen and Herbert (1996) Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
