Category: B

A traditional model of health that assumes health is primarily a product of biological factors.  

Genetic or constitutional factors influence a person’s physiological, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive responses to stress.  

Eysenck’s three independent factors known as supertraits or personality types of psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism.  

Also known as the Five Factor Model; the five relatively independent factors of neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness.  

The body’s natural opiate that reduces pain sensations and creates feelings of euphoria.  

Primary appraisals in Lazarus’s model that the event is neutral or pleasant.  

The field of study that applies elements of the behavioral sciences to illness prevention and treatment.  

The system in Gray’s reinforcement sensitivity theory that is sensitive to punishment or non reward and is driven by the norepinephrine systems of the brain.  

The system in Gray’s reinforcement sensitivity theory that is sensitive to reward and fueled by the dopamine areas and circuits of the brain.  

An assessment tool that measures cumulative life change stress with a semi-structured interview and a panel of trained raters.