PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Dissonance, Sympathetic Nervous System, Deindividuation
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L0101 m 2-4: explain the biopsychosocial model of health psychology. Emotional instability: e. g. , irritability and losing temper, hypersensitivity and crying, etc Problem solving difficulties: e. g. , trouble making decisions, poor choices, easily frustrated. Ruminative thinking: obsessively worrying and intrusive disturbing mental images. Catastrophizing: using extreme absolute language, over-reacting to minor problems, etc: explain how the sympathetic adrenal medullary (sam) system operates. The effects are raised blood pressure, irregular heart rate, sweating, and constriction of peripheral blood vessels: explain problem-focused and emotion-focused coping. E. g. , blaming a rape victim for the clothes she wore or blaming a mugging victim for being out so late, etc Subjects had to identify which line matched the target line from a choice of three. The task was designed to be very easy. There were five confederates that answered out loud first, then the subject answered. On some trials, all the confederates answered the same incorrect response.
