Introduction to Health and Wellness
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Introduction to Health and Wellness offers students a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles of personal health, fitness, and well-being. This course explores the interconnected dimensions of wellness, including physical, mental, emotional, social, and environmental health. Students will learn about nutrition, exercise, stress management, disease prevention, and healthy lifestyle choices. Through discussions, assessments, and practical activities, the course encourages the development of lifelong habits that contribute to overall wellness and empowers students to make informed decisions for a healthy future.
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Stress Health and Well Being Thriving in the 21st Century 1st Edition by Rick Harrington
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Chapter 1: Stress and Health
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Q1) If we want to live the good life, we also want to build on our ____ and our sense of well-being.
A) sense of coherence
B) mindfulness
C) management skills
D) good feelings
Answer: D
Q2) Explain the concept of an allostatic load and how it relates to the stages of Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome.
Answer: With time and repetition,such as when an organism is subjected to chronic stressors,the systems at play begin to pay an increasing cost.This cost is known today as the allostatic load.The continual wear and tear and drawing of resources from the different systems of the body,including the immune system,can eventually propel the organism from the first (alarm)stage into Selye's second stage,which he called the resistance stage.Over a more extended time as the organism endures repeated exposure to stressors,the systems become so depleted that injury may result.Thus,the body experiences the final stage called the exhaustion stage where organ systems fail and possible death may ensue.
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Chapter 2: Positive Psychology
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Q1) Aristotle's approach is referred to as the ____ of happiness.
A) subjective well-being theory
B) hedonic theory
C) logic and reason theory
D) virtue theory
Answer: D
Q2) ____ believed that the good life could be achieved by following the golden mean, the balance point between the extremes of life and believed that eudaimonia (i.e., happiness possessed of true well-being)was not a goal to pursue but rather a byproduct of living the virtuous life.
A) Socrates
B) Plato
C) Aristotle
D) The ancient Hebrews
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Stress and the Nervous System
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Q1) The ____ are cone-shaped glands that sit atop the kidneys.
A) medulla
B) adrenals
C) adrenal cortices
D) adrenal medulla
Answer: B
Q2) What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
Answer: Unfortunately for some,the reaction to traumatic stressors may result in the development of a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).PTSD is characterized by a number of symptoms including persistently re-experiencing the traumatic event,avoiding stimuli correlated with the traumatic event,experiencing a general response numbing,and having persistent increased arousal.The duration of the overall symptom pattern lasts at least a month,and there is distress or impairment in one or more primary areas of functioning.
Q3) Briefly describe the structure of the pituitary gland.
Answer: The pituitary gland is the pea-sized master gland at the base of the brain.Like the adrenal gland,it is a structure with two glandular regions with separate functions.It is divided into an anterior and a posterior region rather than an inner and outer region as the adrenal gland is.
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Chapter 4: Stress, Illness, and the Immune System
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Q1) What cells are like James Bond special agents? Describe these cells.
Q2) What three conditions must be present in order to establish causality?
Q3) What is a prospective research design?
Q4) The ____ group in an experimental study serves as a comparison group.
A) dependent variable
B) independent variable
C) experimental
D) control
Q5) Describe Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficients.
Q6) ____ is an indicator of the strength of the relationship between the independent variables on the dependent variables.
A) A causal variable
B) One-half of standard deviation
C) Standard deviation
D) Effect size
Q7) What is the difference between the innate immune system or natural immune system and the adaptive immune system? How do they work together?
Q8) List and explain several problems with the SLE (stressful life events)model.
Q9) What is reliability?
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Chapter 5: The Impact of Stress on Health Conditions
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Q1) Describe migraine headaches.
Q2) Stress is commonly believed to be associated with ____.
A) low levels of circulating cholesterol
B) high levels of circulating cholesterol
C) low levels of stagnant cholesterol
D) high levels of stagnant cholesterol
Q3) Why is it important to keep LDL levels within normal limits?
Q4) Evidence suggests that tension-type headache onset, a skeletal muscle condition, is related to ____ stressors and migraine headache, a neurovascular condition, to ____ stressors.
A) abaxial, axial
B) distal, proximal
C) proximal, distal
D) rostal, caudal
Q5) ____ is also a serious inflammatory bowel disease that is characterized by GI symptoms and ulcers of the colon.
A) Irritable bowel syndrome
B) Inflammatory bowel disease
C) Crohn's disease
D) Ulcerative colitis
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Chapter 6: Personality and Stress
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Q1) Describe the Big Five (also known as the Five Factor Model).
Q2) What is the difference between the Behavioral Inhibition System and the Behavioral Approach System?
Q3) What is "anger-in"? What type of anger expression style is ideal?
Q4) What trait is linked to the Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS)?
Q5) Explain locus of control (and the two types)in Rotter's social learning theory.
Q6) Whereas ____ are considered more temporary internal phenomena, ____ are considered more enduring and stable personality characteristics.
A) traits, states
B) states, traits
C) dispositions, temperaments
D) temperaments, dispositions
Q7) Describe the NEO-PI.
Q8) Explain differential appraisal.
Q9) What trait is linked to the Behavioral Approach System (BAS)?
Q10) What trait did Redford Williams and his associates link to coronary atherosclerosis and risk of death?
Q11) Explain Kobasa's concept of hardiness.
Q12) Describe the neuroticism health-risk connection. Page 8
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Chapter 7: Anxiety, Anger, and Depression
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Q1) ____ involves mentally recycling concerns-it is the process of repeating our thoughts associated with anxiety.
A) Anger
B) Fear
C) Worry
D) Rage
Q2) What are the vulnerability factors for depression?
Q3) Define errors of thinking.
Q4) Describe the positive psychology approach that Maddux suggests should replace the illness ideology approach (e.g., the DSM).
Q5) ____ has a high frequency of comorbidity (i.e., co-occurrence)with other anxiety disorders, major depressive disorder, and alcohol use disorders-calling some to question whether it is really a distinct syndrome.
A) PTSD
B) Panic disorder
C) Obsessive-compulsive disorder
D) Social phobia
Q6) What is the most effective behavioral approach in treating anxiety disorders? Describe this type of therapy.
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Chapter 8: Interpersonal Stress
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Q1) Looking at the health benefits of marriage, why do men have five times more benefit from marriage than women?
Q2) Satisfied couples tend to attribute each others' negative behaviors to ____ factors such as "he's had a bad day" or "she is under a lot of stress."
A) internal stable
B) internal unstable
C) external unstable
D) external stable
Q3) Gottman and Gottman (1999)identified a particularly destructive pattern they called the ____, in which one party makes a type of demand on the relationship that leads the other party to withdraw from the interaction rather than attempt to resolve the demand.
A) demand-withdraw pattern
B) positive reciprocity
C) negative reciprocity
D) stonewalling
Q4) Enumerate the choices for minority group members when dealing with the unique challenges associated with biculturalism.
Q5) Define positive reciprocity.
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Chapter 9: Job Stress
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Q1) What are some of the stresses that people-oriented service professions (social workers, teachers, and health-care workers)encounter?
Q2) The ____ model states that stress occurs when there is a poor fit between the worker and the work environment.
A) organizational role
B) person-environment (P-E) fit
C) job demands-control
D) effort-reward imbalance (ERI)
Q3) Describe the positive psychological state called vigor. List the top three activities positively related to vigor.
Q4) Describe the importance of self-care in preventing burnout and impairment of psychologists.
Q5) List the forms of gender-based harrasment.
Q6) Define the stressor workplace harassment.
Q7) Define the term stress as it is used in the job-demands control model and other organizational stress contexts. List the three categories of strains and provide examples of each.
Q8) What are some of the detrimental health conditions associated with shift work?
Q9) Discuss the effort-reward imbalance (ERI)model.
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Chapter 10: Cognitive and Behavioral Approaches
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Q1) What questions can one ask to self-challenge irrational beliefs?
Q2) Although there is substantial support for the goodness of fit hypothesis in coping, Folkman and Moskowitz (2004)conclude after examining the relevant studies that the empirical evidence for its validity is not always consistent. What is the evidence for the inconsistency of this hypothesis?
Q3) Discuss Meichenbaum's stress inoculation training (SIT). What concept is it based on? What combination of cognitive and behavioral skill-building approaches does it use? Elaborate on its three phases.
Q4) Opposite of the commonly held belief that laughter lowers blood pressure, Martin (2002, p. 218)concludes that "experimental studies indicate that laughter is actually associated with short-term increases in blood pressure and heart rate, but no longer-term effects." Discuss the more positive results found for using coping humor.
Q5) Describe the distorted thinking category of emotional reasoning used in Beck's triple column method exercise. Provide examples.
Q6) Describe the 50-item Ways of Coping scale. What coping strategies does this inventory measure?
Q7) Discuss the goodness of fit hypothesis.
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Chapter 11: Physical Activity and Exercise
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Q1) The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)and the American Heart Association (AHA)have similar guidelines to engage in moderate intensity aerobic exercise for a minimum of ____ minutes (up to ____ minutes)per day for ____ days a week or vigorously intense aerobic exercise for ____ to ____ minutes per day for a total of 75 to 150 minutes per week as well as twice a week of resistance training (i.e., strength training, weight lifting).
A) 30, 60, 5, 20, 30
B) 15, 30, 4, 10, 15
C) 20, 30, 5, 30, 60
D) 30, 45, 4, 15, 30
Q2) Name some of the benefits of physical exercise.
Q3) Cardiorespiratory function, relative leanness, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility are examples of ____.
A) physical health
B) physical fitness
C) physical exercise
D) physical activity
Q4) How does exercise reduce the risk of diabetes (and which type)?
Q5) Explain the abstinence violation effect. How would you avoid this?
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Chapter 12: Nutrition
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Q1) Why was fiber once thought to be useless and why is this false?
Q2) Does the source of amino acids (e.g., animal or plant)matter? Is one healthier than the other?
Q3) Name some foods that are high in fiber.
Q4) ____ are the fatty acid form of fat generally stored in fat cells and later burned for energy.
A) Triglycerides
B) Amino acids
C) Carbohydrates
D) Phytochemicals
Q5) What was the goal of "Healthy People 2010" regarding Americans' fruit and vegetable consumption? How well was it met?
Q6) How do people gain weight and become obese?
Q7) What is fiber and why is it important?
Q8) How does the body lose protein and how does it replace it?
Q9) How does smoking relate to stress?
Q10) What happens to sugar molecules in the body's cells?
Q11) What role can tea or coffee play in amplifying or reducing stress effects?
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Q13) Americans consume far too much of what mineral? How much is too much and why?
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Chapter 13: Self-Regulation Relaxation Strategies
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Q1) Like progressive muscle relaxation training, autogenic training may be introduced in abbreviated or modified forms. Provide two examples of modifications.
Q2) Describe a research study suggesting that guided imagery with relaxation can be applied to medical patients with pain conditions to potentially improve their health-related quality of life. Include in your description the limitations in the study.
Q3) ____ can be measured on a 100 point scale in units called Subjective Units of Distress (SUDS).
A) Fear
B) Anxiety
C) Nervousness
D) Angst
Q4) Elongated muscle fibers are more relaxed and can be trained to reach a zero firing threshold, a phenomenon that is verifiable with a(n)____ instrument.
A) electrocardiograph
B) magnetic resonance imaging
C) electromyograph
D) electroencephalogram
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Chapter 14: Meditation, Yoga, and Biofeedback
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Q1) What are some of the limitations of meditation?
Q2) Unlike tension-type headache's relation to skeletal muscle tension, the ____ headache appears to be vascular in origin.
A) Cluster
B) Hormone
C) migraine
D) organic
Q3) Jean Kristeller suggests that the practice of mindfulness meditation can be divided into three aspects that she calls (1)breath awareness, (2)open awareness, and (3)____ meditation.
A) calm abiding
B) insight
C) guided mindfulness
D) loving kindness
Q4) Jean Kristeller (2007)suggests that the practice of mindfulness meditation can be divided into three aspects. Describe the first aspect, breath awareness.
Q5) Describe Raynaud's phenomenon.
Q6) Describe the desensitization theory.
Q7) Describe the experience of using the observing self during mindfulness practice.
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Chapter 15: Guidelines for Stress Management and Well
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Q1) What are the benefits of altruism?
Q2) List four empirically documented healthy eating plans.
Q3) Provide tips on how to become an activarian if one is a sedentarian.
Q4) Reducing weight means dropping ____ calories a day from your menu.
A) 100
B) 200
C) 500
D) 900
Q5) Green tea is low in caffeine and high in beneficial ____.
A) polyphenols
B) selenium
C) folic acid
D) Vitamin D
Q6) What does positive psychology expert Michael Fordyce suggest we do to enhance our happiness and well-being?
Q7) Like deep relaxation, meditation ideally involves ____ minutes ____ a day.
A) 10, once
B) 10, twice
C) 20, once
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