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BBH 311 Exam 1 Graded A+ 2024- aimed at ridding the body of foreign substances, bacteria and viruses.
-releasing immune cells into the bloodstream - ANSWER-Key functions in immune
response include:
-Behavior changes, advances in medicine, hygiene/sanitation - ANSWER-What are the
cause of changes in death rates in the US btwn 1900 and 1994?
-men have more trouble coping with loss, less social support than women and more
reliant on spouse
-women more likely to take part in prevention health behaviors - ANSWER-what are the
explanations to gender differences regarding marital status?
-Misrepresentation of population
-poor generalizability - ANSWER-What are the implications of not taking SES into
account?
-Then: ppl died of infectious diseases, lived shorter lives
-Now: ppl died of chronic diseases, behavior illnesses, life expectancies increased -
ANSWER-What were the reasons for the differences in the death rates in the US from
1900-1994?
-Tries to find the source of the problem
-(focus on prevention)
-Integration in training
-broad view
-development - ANSWER-What differentiates BBH from other related disciplines?
1. Less natural killer cell activity
2. Decrease in T-cell counts
3. Lower proliferative responses in-vitro
4. Increase in proinflammatory cytokines
5. Behaviors disrupts immune function - ANSWER-role of depression on immune
frunction and its link to bereavement: (5)
1. low rates of chronic diseases, 2. low risk of all-cause mortality, 3. tend to live longer -
ANSWER-positive effect of marriage on health : (3)
1. Men much more affected by death of spouse, 2. both unmarried men and women
have increase risk of dying earlier, men have the greater risk - ANSWER-what are the
gender differences with marital status?
1. percieved stress, 2. mood disturbance/sleep, 3. biological responses - ANSWER-
possible mechanisms underlying bereavement and mortality findings include: (3)
, ACTH - ANSWER--Released from pituitary in response to CRH
-Travels to adrenal glands
-Stimulates cortisol release from adrenal glands
acute immune response - ANSWER-__________-->block pathogens from body,
seeks/destroy invaders, repair--->enhanced survival
acute stress response - ANSWER-__________-->pychological and behavioral
changes--> enhanced survival in threatening situations
adaptive/specific immunity - ANSWER--Takes several days to engage
-more efficient
-Lymphocytes (WBC)
Allostasis - ANSWER-Maintaining survival through change: if you perceive
stress then you have to respond and this mechanism helps you do it
behavioral medicine - ANSWER--Focus on understanding and treating illness
-the interdisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of behavioral
and biomedical science knowledge and techniques relevant to health and illness and
the application of this knowledge and these techniques to prevention, diagnosis,
treatment and rehabilitation
Bereavement and mortality - ANSWER--Dramatic increase in all-cause mortality
Particularly cardiovascular disease
Biobehavioral Health - ANSWER-The study of the interaction of biological, behavioral,
sociocultural, and environmental variables in the etiology and prevention of health
problems and in the promotion of healthy human development
Biopsychosocial model - ANSWER--Biological, psychological, sociological contributions
to disease and illness
-Includes disciplines like...Health Psychology, Behavioral Medicine
Biobehavioral Health
control and stress relation to health - ANSWER-•Having more control/responsibilities
can lead to a stress response.
•Findings in health psychology that the same physical insult is far more likely to produce
a stress-related disease if the person feels as if there is no sense of control, and no
predictive information as to how long and how bad the stressor will be.
convergent causation - ANSWER-Interaction across levels
Corollary of proximity - ANSWER-the effect that the mapping of elements/variables
across levels of organization increases in complexity as the level of intervening levels
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