Question 1

Techniques employed for stress management range from teaching control of specific muscle groups to autogenic training.

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Question 2

What is the Recurrent Coronary Prevention Project? What did the interventions consist of? What were the main study findings,and what is a plausible competing explanation for the promising results?

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Question 3

What are the two classes of psychosocial intervention that have been applied to the management of disease processes?

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Question 4

Use the transactional model to identify the psychological processes that give rise to the disease-related physiological processes described in the chapter.What exactly are the psychological events or processes that interact with the body and how? Briefly list the bodily impact (the physiological systems affected by)of these events and processes?

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Question 5

Describe Engel's (1977)argument for a biopsychosocial model of disease.

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Question 6

Define emotion-focused and problem-focused coping.Provide an example of each.In simple terms and in one sentence,describe how use of each type of coping is reinforced.

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Question 7

Compare and contrast the 5 models of the relationship between hostility and health risk.What is the status of each in the research literature? What model should be chosen on the basis of current knowledge?

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Question 8

Explain the functioning of the autonomic nervous system.Include in your explanation the functioning of both the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches.

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Question 9

State and explain the three stages of Hans Selye's (1956)General Adaptation Syndrome.Does this model treat stress as stimulus or as response?

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Question 10

Name and define the three general psychosocial factors that have been shown to influence disease.For each,and in one sentence,summarize the link that research has supported between the psychosocial factor and physical disease.

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Question 11

Describe the plumbing analogy for the human cardiovascular system (be sure to include in your description both systolic and diastolic blood pressure).

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Question 12

Explain the evidence for and against the role Helicobacter pylori plays in the formation of gastric ulcers.

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Question 13

Explain the process of cellular immunity.

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Question 14

Describe the functioning of the endocrine system.Include the relevant organs,method of transmission,and both the nature and role of cortisol.

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Question 15

Briefly explain Lazarus and colleagues' (Lazarus & Folkman,1984)transactional model of stress.Does this model treat stress as stimulus or as response?

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Quiz 7: Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Conditions