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1
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Amount of canadians that will die of cancer

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1/4

2
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Most common cancer

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Breast

3
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Frequency of mammagrams

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2-3 years

4
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Prostate Specific Antigen Test

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Blood test for prostate cancer

5
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2nd highest cause of cancer death

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Colorectal

6
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% that are moderately active

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49%

7
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Most inactive gender

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Women

8
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Needed amount of activity each week

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150 min

9
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5 stages of sleep

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Theta waves
Sleep spindles and K complex waves
Delta waves (deep sleep)
Beta waves (REM sleep)

10
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Ghrelin

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Promotes appetite

11
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Leptin

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Signals fullness

12
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Sleep apnea

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Air pipe blockage that disrupts sleep

13
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5 steps of behaviour change

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Specify problem behaviour
Gather baseline data
Design modification program
Execute program
Evaluate effectiveness
14
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Overt

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Something we do or don’t do

15
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Covert

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Cognitions and emotions

16
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3 things involved in self monitoring

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Initial response level of problem behaviour
Antecedents
Consequences

17
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Satiation

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Reinforcer loses motivation power

18
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Shaping

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Reinforce closer and closer approximations to desired behaviours

19
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% of teens that smoke regularly

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10%

20
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Experimenters

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Smoke 5 or fewer cigarettes a day. Have protective factors to prevent them form smoking heavily

21
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3 Neurotransmitters that enhance memory

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Acetylcholine
Norepinephrine
Vasopressin

22
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Social Influence Intervention

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Children smoke through modelling of others

23
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Behavioural Inoculation

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Exposure to a weak version of a persuasive message may help develop counterarguments so that a stronger version of the message can be successfully resisted

24
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3 components to social influence intervention

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Info on the negative effects is constructed to appeal to adolescents
Non smoker is conveyed as self-reliant and independent
Peer group used to facilitate non- smoking

25
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2 ways to define stress

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Environmental stimulus (stressor)
Response to a stressor
26
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Walter Cannon

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SAM

27
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SAM

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Sympathetic NS
Endocrine System (Adrenal medulla)
Secretion of catecholamines that arouse body

28
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Hans Selye

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Father of stress response

Effects of prolonged stress– GAS model

29
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General Adaptation Syndrome

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Alarm– body is aroused and mobilized
Resistance– Adapts to stress, increased immunity
Exhaustion– Energy resources are depleted

30
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Hypothalamic- Pituitary- Adrenocortical System

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Adrenal cortex releases corticosteroids to provide energy for fight or flight

31
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Stress as a process

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Continuous transactions between person and environment

32
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Stress

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Condition when person-environment transactions lead to a perceived discrepancy between situational demands and person’s biopsychosocial resources for coping with demands

33
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Primary Appraisal

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What does this event mean to me? (Good, bad, neutral)

34
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Negative appraisal

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Harm
Threat
Challenge

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Secondary Appraisal

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Are resources sufficient to meet demands of stressor

36
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Coping

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Efforts to manage perceived discrepancy between appraised demands and resources

37
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Overt coping

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Action oriented

38
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Covert coping

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Psychological processes

39
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Problem focused coping

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Control the stressful event. Reduce demands and increase resources

40
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Emotion focused coping

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Control our emotional response when we can’t change the situation

41
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Rational Emotive Therapy

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Stress results from irrational beliefs

42
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Cognitive Restructuring

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Reduce stress by changing irrational beliefs

43
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ABCD Model

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Activating the environmental event
Irrational Beliefs
Emotional consequences
Disputing beliefs and replacing them with rational beliefs

44
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3 criticisms of the GAS model

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Limited role of psychological factors
Assumes stress response is uniform
Says stress is an outcome not a process

45
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Tend and Befriend

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Humans respond to stress with social and nurturant behaviour– seek social support

46
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Neurotransmitter released in tend and befriend

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Oxytocin

47
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Harm

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Damage that has already been done by event

48
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Threat

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Possible future damage

49
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Challenge

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Potential to overcome or even profit from stress event

50
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Allostatic Load

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Accumulating adverse effects of stress in conjunction with pre- existing risks, on biological stress regulatory systems

51
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Acute Stress Paradigm

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Person goes through moderately stressful activities in a lab so that changes in emotional and physiological functioning can be assessed

52
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Holmes and Rahe

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Substantial adjustment to environment induces stress

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Lazarus

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Daily hassles scale

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Role Conflict

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Person receives conflicting info about work tasks and standards by different individuals

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Stress Moderator

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Modify how stress is experienced and the effect it has

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Negative Affectivity

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Chronic bad mood

57
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Psychological Control

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Belief you can determine your behaviour and bring about desired outcomes

58
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Approach coping

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Engage in cognitive/ emotional efforts to deal with long term threats

59
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Avoidant Coping

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Deal better with short- term threats

60
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Emotional approach coping

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Focusing on and working through emotions experienced in conjunction with a stressor

61
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5 tasks of coping

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Reduce harmful environmental conditions and enhance prospect of recovery
Tolerate or adjust to negative events
Maintain positive self image
Maintain emotional equilibrium
Continue satisfying relationships with others

62
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Tangible assistance

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Material support from others

63
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Direct effects hypothesis

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Social support is beneficial during both stressful and non stressful periods

64
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Buffering hypothesis

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Benefits are chiefly evident during periods of high stress

65
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Dyadic coping

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Interplay of stress experienced by one partner and the coping reactions of the other

66
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Matching hypothesis

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Match between one’s needs and what they receive from their social network

67
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Mindfulness Based stress reduction

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Training in meditation to help people self- regulate stress reactions and negative emotions

68
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Secondary intervention

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Stopping an illness after it develops

69
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3 types of sensory receptors

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Mechanoreceptors
Thermoreceptors
Pain receptors

70
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5 psychological factors in perceiving symptoms

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Focus of attention
Cognitive set
Expectations
Emotions
Prior learning
71
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Cognitive set

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More likely to perceive symptoms when your’e thinking of them

72
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Illness schema

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Representations allow us to extract meaning from symptoms

73
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3 sources of illness representations

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Semantic associations with disease names
Past experiences with different illnesses
Information from others

74
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Lay referral network

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Informal network of family and friends

75
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Psychological reactance

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We have a free set of behaviours we feel we have the ability and right to perform. When they are threatened or eliminated it causes psychological reactance

76
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5 factors influencing the magnitude of psychological reactance

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Magnitude of threat
Importance of free behaviour
Confidence that we possess free behaviour
Threat is perceived as unjustified or illegitimate
Available alternatives to threatened behaviour

77
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Worried Well

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Perceive minor symptoms as serious. Committed to self- care

78
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Somaticizers

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Express their psychological distress through bodily symptoms

79
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Secondary Gains

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Benefits from illness that reinforce it and prevent a person form returning to health

80
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Appraisal delay

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Time to decide if the symptom is serious

81
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Illness delay

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Time between recognition of illness and seeking treatment

82
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Behavioural Delay

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Time between deciding to seek treatment and actually doing it

83
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Nosocomial Infection

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Results from exposure to disease in a hospital setting

84
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Burnout

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Emotional exhaustion, cynicism, low job self- efficacy

85
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Nurse practitioner

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RN that can order tests and prescribe drugs