CCCCD: Associate Professor Wade Baggette
Spring 2007 Section P08
I greatly encourage my students to explore these links to enrich their learning experience. The links below may help clarify material covered in the book, mentioned in class, or both.
Chapter Fourteen Key Topics
The following topics from Chapter Fourteen are important and exam-worthy:
- Preventable Illnesses and Mortality Statistics (Causes of Death) (p. 550)
- Hans Selye and the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) (p.
552)
- Does Thorndike’s “Law of Effect” apply? (S-R)
- “Type A” and “Type B” Personalities as predictors of health (p. 555)
- Stress and the Immune Response (p. 557)
- Monkeys and New Roommates
- Healing of Surgical Wounds (slower with increased stress)
- Immunity to Delivered Cold Virus
- Can the immune system be conditioned? (pp. 559-560)
- Autonomic Nervous System (review from Chapter 2) (p.
551)
- Sympathetic Nervous System (Fight or Flight)
- Parasympathetic Nervous System (Rest and Digest)
- Walter Cannon’s Discovery of Epinephrine as responsible for Fight or Flight Response (Sympathetic Nervous System Excitation) (p. 551)
- Methods of Stress Reduction
- Biofeedback (p. 569)
- Meditation (pp. 571-572)
- Spirituality and Faith Communities (pp. 572-573)
- Social Support (p. 567)
- Religious Attendance and Life Expectancy (p. 574)
- Social Psychology of Smoking: Targeting Children & Adolescents (p. 577)
- Smoking Cessation: Strategies and Techniques (p. 580)
- Involve One’s Support System (p. 580)
- Expect Withdrawal Symptoms such as Insomnia (p. 578)
- Remember “Withdrawal” and “Tolerance”? (p. 578)
- Diet, Exercise, & Obesity
- Genetic factor(s) and weight loss (p. 585)
- Restriction of Caloric Intake leads to decreased metabolism
- Comparison of diet in 1900 and diet today (p. 586)
- Estimates and perceptions of caloric intake and activity
- Remember “Overconfidence” and “Hindsight Bias”?
- Study of Nurses: TV viewing habits as a predictor of mortality (p. 586)
- Strategies for Weight Loss (p. 589)