11 Stress, Health, And Coping Flashcards
The demand that is made on an organism to adapt
Stress
Stress that it’s helpful
Eustress
The field of psychology that studies the relationship between psychological factors (e.g., attitude, beliefs, situational, influences, and behavior patterns) and the prevention and treatment of physical illness
Health psychology
A microscopic organism (e.g., bacterium or virus) that can cause disease
Pathogen
Being torn in different directions by opposing motives
Conflict
To interpret negative events as being disastrous; to “blow out of proportion”
Catastrophize
Behavior characterized by a sense of time, urgency, competitiveness, and hostility
Type A behavior
Our beliefs that we can bring about desire changes through our own efforts
Self-efficacy expectations
A cluster of traits that buffers stress and are characterized by commitment, challenge, and control
Psychological hardiness
The place (locus) to which an individual attributes control over the receiving of reinforcers - either inside or outside the self
Locus of control
Selye’s hypothetical three-stage response distress
General adaptation syndrome (GAS)
The first stage of the GAS, which is triggered by the impact of a stressor and characterized by the synthetic activity
Alarm reaction
An innate adaptive response to the perception of danger
Fight-or-flight reaction
The second stage of the GAS, characterized by prolonged synthetic activity in an effort to restore a lost energy and repaired damage; also referred to as the adaptation stage
Resistance stage
The third stage of the GAS, characterized by weakened resistance and possible deterioration
Exhaustion stage
The system of the body that recognizes and destroys foreign agents (antigens) that invade the body
Immune system
White blood cells (derived from the Greek words Leuko, meaning “white”, and kytos, literally meaning “a hollow” but used to referred to cells)
Leukocytes
Substances that stimulate the body to me immune system response to it (short for antibody generator)
Antigens
Substance formed by white blood cells that recognize and destroy antigens
Antibodies
Increased blood flow to an injured area of the body, resulting in redness, warmth, and an increased supply of white blood cells
Information
A method of reappraising one’s fears and troubles, such that one tries to find a lesson from God in them, escape from them, or to perceive that the trials are spiritually beneficial
Benevolent religious reappraisal
The cognitive process that occurs when one is appraising whether an event is stressful or opposes a threat, whether it will be harmful or present a challenge
Primary appraisal
People’s evaluation of their resources and options for coping with a stressor or threat
Secondary appraisal
A stress-management strategy in which people absolve themselves for responsibility for managing a stressor and surrender any type to control the situation
Passive coping
