SS10.P.5

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Psychology

SS10.P.5

Explain ways to promote psychological wellness.

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
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