HLTH 383 MIDTERM Questions with Correct Solutions
Question:
1. Psychoneuroimmunology definition
Answer:
The scientific investigation of how the brain affects the body's immune cells and how the
immune system can be affected by emotions and behavior. Explores the interaction between
the brain, nervous system, and immune system. Searches for the exact mechanisms by which
the mind, nervous system, endocrine system, and immune system interact and provides a
scientific framework for research into why disease develops and how the body heals.
Question:
2. Law of Present Moment Living
Answer:
Be here now! The essence of the law of present moment living is this: if you are taking part in
activities and entertaining thoughts that do not support life, that make you wallow in misery
and indulge in negative thinking, then no matter what you may claim to the contrary, you are
polluting the moment. If you are immersed in life-enhancing activities and enjoying them with
positive enthusiasm, then you are living in the moment. This is a dimension of wellness we are
never going to know unless and until we cultivate a consciousness of living in the now.
Question:
3. Locus of Control
Answer:
The extent to which we believe our actions will be effective enough to control or master the
environment.
Question:
4. "What is going on in the head effects every outpost of the body."
Answer:
Robert Sapolsky
Question:
5. Kelly McGonigal Ted Talk
, Answer:
Making you better at dealing with stress
- look at stress as a way to prepare yourself for a difficult situation
- caring creates resiliency: human connection is essential!
- stress is helpful if you look at the right way, it gives you courage
- accepting stress will help you trust yourself -See stress as the biology of courage- your body
is rising to the challenge!
Question:
6. "The stress response is the array of neural and endocrine changes that occur in the zebra
and the lion, designed to get them through the current crisis and reestablish homeostasis".
Answer:
Robert Sapolsky
Question:
7. "For primates the definition of a stressor expands beyond merely a physical challenge to
homeostasis. In addition, it includes thinking you're going to be thrown out of homeostasis.
An anticipatory stress response is adaptive if there really is a physical challenge coming.
However, if you're constantly but incorrectly convinced that you're about to be thrown out of
balance, you're being an anxious, neurotic, paranoid, or hostile primate who is
psychologically stressed. And the stress response did not evolve for dealing with this recent
mammalian innovation."
Answer:
Robert Sapolsky
Question:
8. "Mobilizing energy while sprinting for your life helps save you. Do the same thing
chronically because of a stressful 30-year mortgage, and you're at risk for various metabolic
problems, including adult-onset diabetes. Likewise with blood pressure; increase it to sprint
across the savanna - good thing. Increase it because of chronic psychological stress, and
you've got stress-induced hypertension. Chronically impair growth and tissue repair, and
you'll pay the price. Ditto for chronically inhibiting reproductive physiology; you'll disrupt
ovulatory cycles in women and cause plummeting erections and testosterone levels in men.
Finally, while the acute stress response involves enhanced immunity, chronic stress
suppresses immunity, increasing vulnerability to some infectious diseases."
Answer:
Robert Sapolsky
Question:
9. "We get sick from activating the stress response too often, too long, and for purely
psychological reasons."
Question:
1. Psychoneuroimmunology definition
Answer:
The scientific investigation of how the brain affects the body's immune cells and how the
immune system can be affected by emotions and behavior. Explores the interaction between
the brain, nervous system, and immune system. Searches for the exact mechanisms by which
the mind, nervous system, endocrine system, and immune system interact and provides a
scientific framework for research into why disease develops and how the body heals.
Question:
2. Law of Present Moment Living
Answer:
Be here now! The essence of the law of present moment living is this: if you are taking part in
activities and entertaining thoughts that do not support life, that make you wallow in misery
and indulge in negative thinking, then no matter what you may claim to the contrary, you are
polluting the moment. If you are immersed in life-enhancing activities and enjoying them with
positive enthusiasm, then you are living in the moment. This is a dimension of wellness we are
never going to know unless and until we cultivate a consciousness of living in the now.
Question:
3. Locus of Control
Answer:
The extent to which we believe our actions will be effective enough to control or master the
environment.
Question:
4. "What is going on in the head effects every outpost of the body."
Answer:
Robert Sapolsky
Question:
5. Kelly McGonigal Ted Talk
, Answer:
Making you better at dealing with stress
- look at stress as a way to prepare yourself for a difficult situation
- caring creates resiliency: human connection is essential!
- stress is helpful if you look at the right way, it gives you courage
- accepting stress will help you trust yourself -See stress as the biology of courage- your body
is rising to the challenge!
Question:
6. "The stress response is the array of neural and endocrine changes that occur in the zebra
and the lion, designed to get them through the current crisis and reestablish homeostasis".
Answer:
Robert Sapolsky
Question:
7. "For primates the definition of a stressor expands beyond merely a physical challenge to
homeostasis. In addition, it includes thinking you're going to be thrown out of homeostasis.
An anticipatory stress response is adaptive if there really is a physical challenge coming.
However, if you're constantly but incorrectly convinced that you're about to be thrown out of
balance, you're being an anxious, neurotic, paranoid, or hostile primate who is
psychologically stressed. And the stress response did not evolve for dealing with this recent
mammalian innovation."
Answer:
Robert Sapolsky
Question:
8. "Mobilizing energy while sprinting for your life helps save you. Do the same thing
chronically because of a stressful 30-year mortgage, and you're at risk for various metabolic
problems, including adult-onset diabetes. Likewise with blood pressure; increase it to sprint
across the savanna - good thing. Increase it because of chronic psychological stress, and
you've got stress-induced hypertension. Chronically impair growth and tissue repair, and
you'll pay the price. Ditto for chronically inhibiting reproductive physiology; you'll disrupt
ovulatory cycles in women and cause plummeting erections and testosterone levels in men.
Finally, while the acute stress response involves enhanced immunity, chronic stress
suppresses immunity, increasing vulnerability to some infectious diseases."
Answer:
Robert Sapolsky
Question:
9. "We get sick from activating the stress response too often, too long, and for purely
psychological reasons."
