Ch. 13

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Developed by Richard Lazarus, a model of stress that emphasizes the role of an individual’s evaluation or appraisal events and situations and of the resources that he or she has to deal with the event or situation

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Cognitive appraisal model of stress

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A negative emotional state occurring in response to events that are perceived as taxing or exceeding a person’s resources or ability to cope

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Stress

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The branch of psychology that studies how biological, behavioral, and social factors influence health, illness, medical treatment, and health related behaviors

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Health psychology

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The belief that physical health and illnesses are determined by the complex interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors

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Biopsychosocial model

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Events or situations that are perceived as harmful, threatening, or challenging

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Stressors

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Every day minor events that annoy and upset people

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Daily hassles

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And unhealthy condition caused by chronic, prolonged work stress that is characterized by exhaustion, cynicism and, in a sense of failure or inadequacy

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Burnout

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The stress that results from the pressure of adapting to a new culture

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Acculturative stress

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A rapidly occurring chain of internal physical reactions are people either to fight or take flight from immediate threat

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Fight or flight response

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Hormone secreted by the adrenal Medela that cause rapid physiological arousal; include adrenaline and noradrenalin

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Catecholamines

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Hormones released by the adrenal cortex that play a key role in the body’s response to long-term stressors

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Corticosteroids

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Selye’s Term for the three stage progression of physical changes that occur when an organism is exposed to intense and prolonged stress. The three stages are alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

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Gen. adaptation syndrome

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Repeated, duplicate DNA sequences that are found at the very tips of chromosomes and that protect the chromosomes genetic data during cell division

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Telomeres

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Body system that produces specialized white blood cells that protect the body from viruses, bacteria, and tumor cells.

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Immune system

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Specialized white blood cells that are responsible for immune defenses

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Lymphocytes

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An interdisciplinary field that studies the interconnections among psychological processes, nervous and endocrine system functions, and the immune system

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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Accounting for negative events or situations with external, unstable, and specific explanations

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Optimistic explanatory style

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Accounting for negative events or situations with internal, stable, and global explanations

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Pessimistic explanatory style

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A behavioral and emotional style characterized by a sense of time urgency, hostility, and competitiveness

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Type a behavior pattern

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The resources provided by other people in times of need

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Social support

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Behavioral and cognitive responses used to deal with stressors; involves our efforts to change circumstances, or our interpretation of circumstances, to make them more favorable and less threatening

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Coping

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Coping efforts primarily aimed at directly changing or managing a threatening or harmful stressor

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Problem focused coping

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Coping efforts primarily aimed at relieving or regulating the emotional impact of a stressful situation

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Emotion focused coping

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A technique in which practitioners focus awareness on present experience with acceptance

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Mindfulness meditation