Ch 10: Stress And Health Flashcards
Our reaction to events that disturb our equilibrium and tax our ability to respond
Stress
3 types of stress
Catastrophies, significant life changes, daily hassles
Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in 3 stages: alarm, resistance, exhaustion
General adaptation syndrome (GAS)
Under stress people (often women) often provide emotional support to others and bond with and seek support from others
Tend and befriend
The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes combine to affect our immune system and health
Pyschoneuroimmunology
Reducing stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods; ways to adapt to internal and external demands or challenges
Coping
Taking an active role to solve problems; fixing the source of the problem
Problem focused coping
Managing one’s reaction to a problem
Emotion-focused coping
Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless
Personal control
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or person learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
Learned helplessness
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our control determine our fate
External locus of control
The perception that we control our own fate
Internal locus of control
Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life.
Subjective well being
Moving away from the source of the stress
Avoidance
What is causing the stress
Stressor
Phase 1: sympathetic nervous system activated, heart rate increase
Alarm reaction
Phase 2; temp, BP, and respiration remain high, adrenal gonads pump stress hormones, ready to fight back
Resistance
Phase 3; symptoms of 1 return, body reserves begin to run out
Exhaustion
Toxic component of Type A
Aggression and hostility
Three components of type A
Competitive achievement striving, Time urgency, aggression and hostility
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive hard driving, inpatient and anger prone people
Type A
F and R’s term for easy going relaxed people
Type B
Social supports helps us
Calm our cardiovascular system and lower blood pressure, helps us fight illness by building immune functioning
How mindfulness helps us make positive changes
It strengthens brain, activate brain, calms brain
An enhanced attention to and awareness of the present; being full aware of here and now
Mindfulness meditation
Why religiously active people might be healthier
Healthy lifestyles, social support, positive emotions,
Physiological costs of chronic exposure to the neural or neuroendocrine stress response
Allostatic load
The act or process of spending time in quiet thought
Meditation
5 components of mindfulness
Nonreactivity, observing, act with awareness, describing/labeling, nonjudging
Helps people cope with cravings that might trigger setbacks or relapses
Urge surfing
Urge surfing
Self monitor, identify, visualize
Broad interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge to fight disease and promote health
Behavioral medicine
Study of the interaction between the mind and the physical health of the body
Health psychology
Suggestions for a happier life
Control your time; act happy; do things that engage your skills; but experiences; work out; sleep; prioritize close relationships; focus beyond self; count blessings; nurture spiritual self
Explanations between religiousness and mortality
Healthier lives; social support; positive emotions; meditation and prayer
