Ch. 14

Question 1

A situation that threatens one’s physical safety, arousing feelings of fear, horror, or helplessness

Answer 1

Traumatic stressor

Question 2

Suddenly violent calamities, either natural or manmade, that cause trauma

Answer 2

Catastrophic Event

Question 3

What are the 5 stages that occur in the wake of natural disasters?

Answer 3

1. Psychic numbness
2. Automatic action
3. Communal effort
4. Letdown
5. Recovery

Question 4

Personal accounts of a stressful event that describe our interpretation of what happened and why

Answer 4

Narratives

Question 5

News coverage expands that experience; can create second-hand traumatization

Answer 5

Trauma in the Media

Question 6

Severe stress caused by exposure to traumatic images or stories

Answer 6

Vicarious Traumatization

Question 7

Emotional response to loss; painful complex feelings

Answer 7

Grief

Question 8

Final phase of grieving

Answer 8

Integration

Question 9

Emotion surrounding a loss that others do not support, share, or understand

Answer 9

Disenfranchised grief

Question 10

The exclusive, active, and intentional social rejection of an individual by others

Answer 10

Targeted rejection

Question 11

delayed stress reaction; an individual involuntarily re-experiences emotional, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of last trauma

Answer 11

PTSD

Question 12

Pressures in our social, cultural, and economic environment

Answer 12

Societal Stressors

Question 13

A syndrome of emotional exhaustion, physical fatigue, and cognitive weariness, often work related

Answer 13

Burnout

Question 14

State of exhaustion experienced by medical and psychological professionals, as well as caregivers; leaves the individual feeling stressed, numb, or indifferent

Answer 14

Compassion fatigue

Question 15

A psychological rating scale designed to measure stress levels by means of attaching numerical values to common life changes

Answer 15

Social Readjustment Ratings Scale (SRRS)

Question 16

A sequence of internal processes that prepares the organism for struggle or escape

Answer 16

Fight-or-Flight Response

Question 17

A temporary pattern of stressor-activated arousal with a distinct onset and limited duration

Answer 17

Acute Stress

Question 18

What does the Tend-and-Befriend model propose?

Answer 18

Females are biologically predisposed to respond to threat by nurturing and protecting offspring and seeking social support

Question 19

Impairment in the function of the immune system

Answer 19

Immunisuppression

Question 20

Field that studies the influence of mental states on the immune system

Answer 20

Psycho-neuroimmunology

Question 21

Hormone like chemicals that fight infection and facilitate communication between the brain and the immune system

Answer 21

Cytokines

Question 22

DNA protein complexes that cap the ends of chromosomes and protect against damage to DNA

Answer 22

Telomeres

Question 23

Behavior pattern characterized by intense, angry, competitive, or hostile responses to challenging situations

Answer 23

Type A

Question 24

Behavior pattern characterized by a relaxed approach to life

Answer 24

Type B

Question 25

Expectations about our ability to influence the outcomes in our life

Answer 25

Locus of control

Question 26

Belief that one has the ability to influence their life outcomes

Answer 26

Internals

Question 27

Belief that they can do little to influence their life outcomes

Answer 27

Externals

Question 28

A pattern of failure to respond to threatening stimuli after an organism experiences a series of ineffective responses

Answer 28

Learned Helplessness

Question 29

Attitude of resistance to stress based on a sense of three characteristics: control, commitment, and challenge

Answer 29

Hardiness

Question 30

An attitude that interprets stressors as specific in their effects, external in origin, and temporary

Answer 30

Optimism

Question 31

Capacity to adapt, achieve well-being, and cope with stress, in spite of serious threats to development

Answer 31

Resilience