PSYC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psychodynamics, Agreeableness, Eating Disorder

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CHAPTER 10 LAST SECTION REVIEW:
Testosterone is related in males and females in sexual desires and behaviour.
Multiple neurotransmitters (ex. Serotonin and Dopamine) influence sexual functioning.
Common meds for depression can result in significant sexual side effects.
Sexual Response Cycle: Masters and Johnson proposed 4 stage cycle of sexual response.
Controversial due to how they had to perform their study.
Excitement, Plateau, Orgasm and Resolution Phase.
Men enter a refractory period while women do not, women have the opportunity for multiple
orgasms.
Sexual Scripts: Cognitive beliefs about how a sexual episode should be enacted.
Men are believed to have a higher sexual motivation, more masturbation, porn and sexual
partners. More positive attributes towards casual sex. Evolutionary theory provides an
explanation.
Evolutionary Theory: Mate preferences. Different reproductive challenges for men and women
leading to different mate preferences. Men value partners attractiveness where as women
value partners status.
Sexual orientation, biological factor can be the prenatal exposure to hormones play a role.
CHAPTER 11 REVIEW
Biopsychosocial Model: A model of health that integrates the effects of biological, behavioural,
and social factors.
Behavioural being thoughts/actions, lifestyles, stress, health beliefs
Social being environments, cultural influences, family relationships and social support
Biological being genetic predispositions, exposure to microbes, brain and other nervous system
developments.
Causes of death are at least partially outcomes of lifestyle. Daily habits such as poor nutrition.
People with BMIs over 25 are considered overweight and people with BMIs over 30 are
considered obese. Two issues with the BMI being does not take age, sex, bone structure or
body fat percentages into account. Also, does not count muscle mass. Ex. Athletes.
Restrained eaters. The ones who as soon as they think they consumes a high calorie food they
throw their diet out the window.
Estimates of 60%-80% is the heritability of body weight.
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Anorexia Nervosa: An eating disorder characterized by excessive fear of becoming fat and
therefore restricting energy intake to obtain a significantly low boy weight.
Bulimia Nervosa: An eating disorder characterized by binge eating and inappropriate
compensatory behaviours such as purging.
Binge-Eating Disorder: An eating disorder characterized by binge eating that causes significant
distress.
90% of people who succeed to quit smoking do so cold turkey
Major life stressors verses, daily life stressors.
Hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal (HPA) axis: A body system involved in stress response.
Tend-and-befriend response: Females’ tendency to protect and care for their offspring and
form social alliances rather than flight or flee in response to threat.
Oxytocin is a hormone important for mothers in bonding to newborns and may encourage
affiliation during social stress.
General Adaption Syndrome: A consistent pattern of responses to stress that consists of three
stages: alarm (emergency reaction), resistance (body prepares for longer, sustained defense
from the stressor) and exhaustion (various physiological and immune systems fail)
Lymphocytes: Specialized white blood cells that make up the immune system; the three types
are B cells, T cells, and natural killer cells.
Type A Behaviour Pattern: A pattern of behaviour characterized by competitiveness,
achievement orientation, aggressiveness, hostility, restlessness, impatience with others, and
inability to relax.
Type B Behaviour Pattern: A pattern of behaviour characterized by non-competitive, relaxed,
easygoing, and accommodating behaviour.
The most toxic factor on the list is hostility.
Like aging, stress decreases blood flow by making blood vessels less able to dilate.
Primary Appraisals: Part of the coping process that involves making decisions about whether a
stimulus is stressful, benign or irrelevant.
Secondary Appraisals: Part of the coping process during which people evaluate their response
options and choose coping behaviours.
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Testosterone is related in males and females in sexual desires and behaviour. Common meds for depression can result in significant sexual side effects. Sexual response cycle: masters and johnson proposed 4 stage cycle of sexual response. Controversial due to how they had to perform their study. Men enter a refractory period while women do not, women have the opportunity for multiple orgasms. Sexual scripts: cognitive beliefs about how a sexual episode should be enacted. Men are believed to have a higher sexual motivation, more masturbation, porn and sexual partners. Different reproductive challenges for men and women leading to different mate preferences. Men value partners attractiveness where as women value partners status. Sexual orientation, biological factor can be the prenatal exposure to hormones play a role. Biopsychosocial model: a model of health that integrates the effects of biological, behavioural, and social factors. Social being environments, cultural influences, family relationships and social support.

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