Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The basic anatomy of the nervous systems.
- The role of hormones in body functions.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Summarize the complex theories and processes related to stress and coping in simpler terms.
- Assess one's own level of stress using multiple measures and following multistep procedures, analyzing the results while considering the research presented in the text.
- Synthesize information about stress and coping to explain the processes in a real-world context.
- Integrate information about eating disorders to discuss how to avoid and/or address them.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There are physiological mechanisms for responding to stress.
- There are biopsychosocial processes for coping with stress.
- There are particular ways in which people perceive and resolve conflict.
- There are both positive and negative ways to cope with stress.
- There are many causes and treatments for eating disorders.
Vocabulary
- stress
- stressor
- stress reaction
- health psychology
- fight or flight response
- general adaptation syndrome (GAS)
- alarm reaction
- resistance
- exhaustion
- daily hassles
- burnout
- catastrophes
- perceived control
- learned helplessness
- optimism
- pessimism
- cortisol
- Type A personality
- Type B personality
- heart disease
- anorexia nervosa
- bulimia nervosa
- obesity
- problem focused coping
- emotion focused coping
- aggression
- frustration aggression hypothesis
- catharsis
- approach-approach conflict
- approach-avoidance conflict
- avoidance-avoidance conflict
