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B1: Stress Flashcards

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1
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What are life events?

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Very important events in someone’s life

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Give an examples of life events

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Marriage, pregnancy, moving homes

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Which theorists measured life events

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Holmes and Rahe

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What did Holmes and Rahe come up with?

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The social readjustment rating scale

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What are daily hassles

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Everyday irritations that can cause us to feel stressed

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What is primary appraisal

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Thinking about how threatening hassles are to our psychological health

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What is secondary appraisal

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When we see a threat and think about how well equipt we are to cope

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Who developed the hassles scale

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Kanner

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How are daily hassles linked to illness

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We experience a lot of daily hassles and because we experience them directly, they can be stressful

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What is role conflict

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When there are incompatible demands upon a person relating to their job

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What is intra role conflict

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When am employees’ role in the workplace presents competing demands (e.g. two projects that can’t be completed at the same time)

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What is inter role conflict

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When a person has two roles with competing demands (a parent looking after their child but also having work responsibilities)

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What are effects in the workplace environment that can cause stress

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Temperature and noise

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What are the 3c’s of a hardy personality

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Commitment, challenge, control

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What is someone with a type A personality described as

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Competitive, impatient, time urgent

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How can having a type A personality affect health

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It’s associated with the development of coronary heart disease

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What is someone with a type B personality described as

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Laidback, relaxed and tolerant

18
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How did Selye come up with the general adaptation syndrome

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He experimented on rats subjecting them to different stressor. He found that it didn’t matter what the stressor was, the response was the same

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What are the stages of the general adaptation syndrome

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Stage 1: alarm reaction, Stage 2: resistance, Stage 3: Exhaustion

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What is acute stress

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A threat requiring an immediate response

21
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What is the SAM system

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The body’s response to an acute stressor

22
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What is chronic stress

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Long term stress

23
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What is the HPA system

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The body’s response to a chronic stressor

24
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What are the stages of the SAM system in order

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Hypothalamus, systematic branch, adrenal medulla, adrenaline/noradrenaline. Then when the stress stops the parasympathetic branch takes over (goes back to calm)

25
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What are the stages of the HPA system in order

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Hypothalamus, CRF, pituitary gland, ACTH, adrenal cortex, cortisol

26
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Name some women hormones that can cause stress

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Oestrogen, PMDD, postnatal depression, menopause

27
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Name a man hormone that can cause stress

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Altered testosterone

28
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What is the immune system

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The body’s defensive barrier against antigens

29
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What is immunosupression

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Prevents our immune system from working efficiently because of stress

30
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What is atherosclerosis

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Narrowing of the arteries

31
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Name the two stress hormones that can cause atherosclerosis

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Cortisol and adrenaline

32
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Name some short term effects of stress and physical ill health

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Headaches, upset stomach, fatigue

33
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Name some long term effects of stress and ill health

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Hypertension, heart attack, stroke

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