Psychology - Chapter 12 - Important Concepts - Part 2
Emotional control is the ability to manage, suppress, or appropriately express emotions in different situations. It helps individuals maintain composure, cope with stress, and respond to challenges in a balanced and adaptive way.
Ability to suppress and express emotions.
Emotional control
Key Terms
Ability to suppress and express emotions.
Emotional control
Writing in a diary facilitates this type of control.
emotional control
Disclosing painful feelings.
Catharsis
When is catharsis a good thing?
When is it bad?
Catharsis is good when it encourages problem solving.
Catharsis is bad when it reinforces a sense of hopleness
Single-sesion procedure, typically conducted in groups, lasting 3-4 hours which attempts to reduce PTSD symtpoms
crisis debriefing
What is wrong with crisis debriefing?
May interfere with our normal coping response and increase the risk of PTSD.
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Ability to suppress and express emotions. | Emotional control |
Writing in a diary facilitates this type of control. | emotional control |
Disclosing painful feelings. | Catharsis |
When is catharsis a good thing? When is it bad? | Catharsis is good when it encourages problem solving. Catharsis is bad when it reinforces a sense of hopleness |
Single-sesion procedure, typically conducted in groups, lasting 3-4 hours which attempts to reduce PTSD symtpoms | crisis debriefing |
What is wrong with crisis debriefing? | May interfere with our normal coping response and increase the risk of PTSD. |
______ people view change as a challenge, rather than a threat, are commited to their life and work, and believe that they can control events. | hardy |
Is it better to be an optimist? | yes |
What are potential reasons why spirituality and religious involvement may reduce stress and increase health? | 1 - Religions promote self control and scorn risky behaviour 2 - Religious involvement boosts social support 3 - Provides a sesnse of meaning and a coping strategy (prayer) |
Recycling of negative events in our minds which can lead us to become depressed. | Rumination |
Women may have more cases of depression because of this process. | Rumination |
Why may men experience less depression. | Early on, encouraged to suck it up and engage in problem focused coping |
Are smokers more likely to suffer from depression? | Yes |
How do stop-smoking approaches help smokers? | educate people on health consequences - help smokers pinpoint high-risk situations for relapse |
What are 4 healthy behaviours that will increase health? | Stop smoking, curb alcohol consumption, achieve a healthy weight, exercise |
Who are more likely to be drinkers, men or women? | Men |
Drinking five or more drinks on one occasion for men and four or more drinks on one occasion for women. | Heavy episodic drinking |
Restricting dietary calories to about 1000 calories and aren’t liekly to result in long-term weight loss and are also unhealthy. | Crash diets |
As much as half of the differences in people’s tendency to become overweight is __________ influenced. | genetically |
This type of exerice o can lower blood pressure and risk for CHD, improve lung function, relieve the symptoms of arthritis, decrease diabetes risk, and cut the risk of breast and colon cancer | aerobic exercise |
Execise is more beneficial for which age demographic? | Older |
The difficulty in trying something new means we have difficulty overcoming _________ _________. | personal inertia |
What are some reasons why patients have low compliance? | Personal inertia Misestimating risks Feeling powerless |
Wjhat is the rationale for prevention programs coming into effect in adolescence? | The earlier in life we develop unhealthy habits, the more likely they are to create problems later in life. |
What is an issue with the DARE program? | Doesnt produce long term effects on susbtance abuse or boost self-esteem and may occasionally backfire to produce increases in substance abuse. |
What is a better alternative to DARE? | Programs focusing on coping skills and stress management. |
Medicine for which there is solid evidence of safety and effectiveness. | conventional medicine |
False belief that because something is natural, it must be safe and healthy for us. | Natural commonplace |
Health professionals who manipualte the spine to treat a wide range of pain-related conditions and injuries and often provide nutritional and lifestyle advice. | Chiropractors |
Chirporactors based their practice on _ - irregularities in the alignment of the spine preventing the nervous and immune systems from functioning properly | subluxations |
Goal is to focus attenion on a single thing, a mantra, or one's breath | concetrative meditation |
Attention flows freely and examines whatever comes to mind | awareness meditation |
internal sound | mantra |
Based on the idea that disruptions in our body's energy field can be mapped and treated | energy medicine |
In acupuncture, needles are placed on - special points which they believe channel a subtle energy or life force called __. | meridians | qi |
CAM treatments may be no more effective than _. | placebos |
There are five reasons why CAM treatments may seem effective: 1 - Produce a by instilling hope 2 - People may asusme that _ products improve their heath when they encounter no AE 3 - the symptoms of physical disorders may be and getting better may be associated to the CAM treatment 4 - When CAM treatments accompay treatments, they may attribute getting better to CAM 5 - __ | placebo natural transient normal misdiagnosis |