Stress,
Coping, and Health
1.
Describe the biopsychosocial model and define health
psychology.
2.
Define stress and discuss the severity of stress and
the impact of minor stressors.
3.
Describe the subjective nature of our appraisals of
stress.
4.
Describe the four principal types of stress discussed
in the text.
5.
Identify the three basic types of conflict, and discuss
which types are most troublesome.
6.
Summarize evidence on life change as a form of stress.
7.
Identify some common emotional responses to stress, and
discuss the effects of arousal on task performance.
8.
Describe the fight-or-flight response and the three
stages of the general adaptation syndrome.
9.
Discuss the two major pathways along which the brain
sends signals to the endocrine system in response to stress.
10.
Describe and evaluate aggression and self-indulgence as
behavioral responses to stress.
11.
Distinguish between defensive coping and constructive
coping as mechanisms for dealing with stress; discuss the value of positive
illusions.
12.
Discuss the burnout syndrome, posttraumatic stress
disorder, and other psychological problems that may result from stress.
13.
Define psychosomatic diseases.
14.
Describe the Type A behavior pattern and summarize the
evidence linking it to coronary heart disease; identify the characteristic of
Type A personality most directly linked to heart disease, hypertension, and
early mortality.
15.
Discuss and evaluate other evidence linking stress to
immunosuppression and a variety of physical illnesses.
Psychological disorders
1. Describe
and evaluate the medical model of abnormal behavior.
2. Explain
the most commonly used criteria of abnormality and complexities that arise in
their interpretation.
3. List
three stereotypes of people with psychological disorders.
4. Summarize
the Featured Study on the admission of pseudopatients to mental hospitals.
5. List
the five diagnostic axes of DSM-IV.
6. Discuss
estimates of the prevalence of psychological disorders.
7. List
four types of anxiety disorders and describe the symptoms associated with each.
8. Discuss
the contribution of biological, cognitive, and personality factors,
conditioning, and stress to the etiology of anxiety disorders.
9. Compare
and contrast the three somatoform disorders and discuss their etiology.
10. Describe
three dissociative disorders and discuss their etiology.
11. Describe
the two major mood disorders and state their prevalence.
12. Explain
how genetic and neurochemical factors may be related to the development of mood
disorders.
13. Explain
how cognitive factors, interpersonal factors, and stress may be related to the
development of mood disorders.
14. Describe
the general characteristics (symptoms) of schizophrenia.
15. Describe
two classification systems for schizophrenic subtypes, and discuss the course
of schizophrenia.
16. Explain
how genetic vulnerability, neurochemical factors, and structural abnormalities
in the brain may contribute to the etiology of schizophrenia.
17. Summarize
evidence on how neurodevelopmental factors, family dynamics and stress may be related
to the development of schizophrenia.
18. Discuss
the nature of personality disorders, and describe the three broad clusters of
such disorders.
19. Describe
the antisocial personality disorder and discuss its etiology.
20. Explain
the legal concept of insanity and explain the grounds for involuntary
commitment.
21. Discuss
the evidence on three issues related to culture and pathology.
22. Explain
how this chapter highlighted four of the text’s organizing themes.
23. Describe
the symptoms and medical complications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
24. Explain
how genetic factors, personality, culture, family dynamics, and disturbed
thinking may contribute to eating disorders.
25. Discuss
how mental heuristics can distort estimates of cumulative and conjunctive
probabilities.
Treatment of Psychological
Disorders
1. Identify
the three major categories of therapy, and discuss how various demographic
variables relate to the likelihood of treatment.
2. Describe
the various types of mental health professionals involved in the provision of
therapy.
3. Explain
the logic of psychoanalysis, and describe the techniques by which analysts
probe the unconscious.
4. Discuss
resistance and transference in psychoanalysis.
5. Identify
the elements of therapeutic climate and discuss therapeutic process in Rogers’
client-centered therapy.
6. Discuss
the logic, goals, and techniques of cognitive therapy.
7. Describe
how group therapy is generally conducted, and identify some advantages of this
approach.
8. Discuss
Eysenck’s critique of insight therapy and more recent evidence on the efficacy
of insight therapies.
9. Summarize
the general principles underlying behavioral approaches to therapy.
10. Describe
the goals and procedures of systematic desensitization and aversion therapy.
11. Describe
the goals and techniques of social skills training and biofeedback.
12. Discuss
evidence on the effectiveness of behavior therapies.
13. Describe
the principal categories of drugs used in the treatment of psychological
disorders.
14. Discuss
evidence on the effects and problems of drug treatments for psychological
disorders.
15. Describe
ECT and discuss its therapeutic effects and its risks.
16. Summarize
the concerns that have been expressed about the impact of managed care on the
treatment of psychological disorders.
17. Discuss
the pros and cons of empirically validated treatments.
18. Discuss
the merits of blending or combining different approaches to therapy; define eclectic.
19. Describe
the Featured Study on combining insight therapy and medication.
20. Discuss
the barriers that lead to underutilization of mental health services by ethnic
minorities and possible solutions to the problem.
21. Explain
why people grew disenchanted with mental hospitals, and describe the community
mental health movement.
22. Describe
the deinstitutionalization trend and evaluate its effects.
23. Explain
how this chapter highlighted two of the text’s unifying themes.
24. Discuss
when and where to seek therapy, and the potential importance of a therapist’s
sex, theoretical approach, and professional background.
25.
Summarize what one should look for in a prospective
therapist and what one should expect out of therapy.
26. Explain
how placebo effects and regression toward the mean can complicate the
evaluation of therapy.
Social
Behavior
1. Describe
how various aspects of physical appearance may influence our impressions of
others.
2. Explain
how schemas, stereotypes, and other factors contribute to selectivity in person
perception.
3. Explain
what attributions are and why and when we make them.
4. Describe
the distinction between internal and external attributions, and summarize
Kelley and Weiner’s theories of attribution.
5. Describe
several types of attributional bias and cultural variations in attributional
tendencies.
6. Summarize
evidence on the roles of physical attractiveness, similarity, and reciprocity
in attraction.
7. Describe
the components and dimensions of attitudes and the correlates of attitude strength.
8. Discuss
the relations between attitudes and behavior.
9. Summarize
evidence on source factors, message factors, and receiver factors that
influence the process of persuasion.