What is the physiology of obesity?

Do fat cells disappear?

People get fat by?

Are children hyped by a diet high in sugar and calmed by one low in suigar?

What nutrients reduce depression?

When do people start smoking?

Alternative medicine- new way to cure or is it snake oil?

What is snake oil?

The branch of psychology that studies how behavioral principles can be used to prevent illness and promote       health is known as:

The WORST type of stress for a person?

You are hiking through a national forest when something moves under the leaves ahead and to your left. You

then see the creature and determine that it is indeed a poisonous snake. Deciding how you will react and avoid getting bit is known as:

How does religious attendance prolong or shorten life expectancy?

What is biofeedback?

Stress and AIDS- is there a comparison?

What is coronary heart disease?

Paul had planned to go on a two-week vacation. Because of problems at work, he will only be able to take off

a couple of days now and then during the summer. So, Paul searches the Internet for interesting places to visit within short driving distances. He is dealing with this situation by using ________ coping.

May does not want to go to college nor does she want to get a job, but she has got to do one or the other,

            according to her parents. She is experiencing which type of conflict?

Whenever six-year-old Aaron gets upset, he begins to cry and suck his thumb. Aaron is using which defense

 mechanism?

When stress causes physical damage to the body in the form of stomach pain, asthma, migraine headaches,

            hives, or hypertension, the person is experiencing:         

Barbara is a college student, who frequently strives to do two or more things simultaneously, tends to

evaluate herself in terms of the number of A's earned or awards won, grinds her teeth in her sleep, and feels vaguely guilty when she relaxes on the weekends. Barbara would be described as:

A health psychologist would be most likely to conduct research assessing the relationship between:

An elevated heart rate is to a difficult final exam as ________ is to _______.

Walter Cannon confirmed that the fight-or-flight response was associated with the release of ________ into

 the bloodstream.

When Selye studied animals’ reactions to various stressors he discovered that the body’s adaptive response

            to stress was so general- he called this:

T lymphocytes are formed in the:

Higher the stress or lower stress, or doesn’t matter helps cause colds?

Compared with monkeys left in stable groups, those who were housed with three or four new roommates

 each month were more likely to experience:

An overreactive immune system is to ________ as an underreactive immune system is to ________.

System of recording, amplifying, and feeding back info about subtle physiological changes is called?

Leading cause of death in Canada was?

The most noticeable nicotine withdrawal symptom?

Helping people to stop smoking by having them rapidly smoke cigarette after cigarette until they become

sick illustrates:

Eating a lot of bread and potatoes is most likely to increase the level of:

In a classic experiment, obese patients whose daily caloric intake was dramatically reduced lost only 6