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Activity # 3 - Study Guide - 5 & 6
Chapter #5 - Defining, Measuring, and Managing Stress
In this chapter you should be able to describe the physiology of stress, along with
the theories, measurement, and sources of stress. Also, describe the behavioral
interventions and coping mechanisms for managing stress.
Study Guides:
#1 Discuss the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system,
noting the differences between them.
#2 Discuss the sympathetic nervous system, the parasympathetic nervous
system, and how they relate to the "fight or flight" response.
#3 Discuss the stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome, and the order in
which they occur.
#4 Discuss the Lazarus view of stress and how it relates to cognitive mediation.
#5 Discuss the several methods that have been used to measure stress and the
approach taken by most health psychologists.
#6 Discuss post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its relationship to
cataclysmic events.
#7 Discuss the relationship between how stress is related to both the demands of
the job and the control one has over the job.
#8 Discuss internal locus of control, external locus of control, self-efficacy, and
how these can affect a person's health.
#9 Discuss emotion focused coping, proactive coping, reactive coping, and how
these might apply to a student who sees a difficult semester of classes coming
and also has a job to go to.
#10 Discuss the relationship between emotion focused coping and problem
focused coping, including which type of coping strategy is most related to good
health.
#11 Discuss guided imagery, progressive muscle relaxation, biofeedback, and
hypnosis. Please include the general strategies used with each of these
methods.
#12 Discuss cognitive behavioral therapy, its general approach, and its
objectives.
#13 Discuss Pennebaker's approach to dealing with traumatic events, and
whether this has produced positive results.
Chapter #6 - Understanding Stress and Disease
This chapter should help you understand the physiology of the immune system,
and the effect of stress on disease.
Study Guides:
#1 Discuss the main function of the immune system and how increasing the
efficiency of the immune system could actually cause a problem for some
diseases.
#2 Discuss HIV, what it stands for, what it is, and how it relates to AIDS.
#3 Discuss psychoneuroimmunology and the relationship between behavior, the
immune system, and your health.
#4 Discuss the factors that can decrease the immune system.
#5 Discuss how stress may relate to disease because of the activities which
people do while under stress.
#6 Discuss the relationship between stress and heart attacks, stress and the
common cold, and between stress and psychological disorders.
#7 Discuss the relationship between a negative outlook and the tendency to
ruminate with the risk for depression.
#8 Discuss the increased risk for physical and mental troubles arising from a high
level of stress on the job and the long-term effects of this.
#9 Discuss the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its symptoms.