Ch 14: Stress, Coping and Health

Question 1

health psychology

Answer 1

how psychological factors contribute to health

causation, prevention and treatment of illness

Question 2

stress

Answer 2

circumstances that threaten well-being or tax coping abilities

Question 3

primary appraisal

Answer 3

initial evaluation of whether an event is irrelevant, relevant but not threatening, or stressful

Question 4

secondary appraisal

Answer 4

evaluation of coping resources, options for dealing with stress

Question 5

frustration

Answer 5

pursuit of a goal is prevented

Question 6

conflict

Answer 6

to goals compete for expression

Question 7

acute stressors

Answer 7

short duration, clear endpoint

Question 8

chronic stressors

Answer 8

long duration, no apparent time limit

Question 9

approach-approach conflict

Answer 9

choice between 2 attractive goals

Question 10

avoidance-avoidance conflict

Answer 10

choice between 2 unattractive goals

Question 11

approach-avoidance conflict

Answer 11

choice to pursue or not pursue a goal with attractive and unattractive aspects

Question 12

fight-or-flight response

Answer 12

autonomic nervous system mobilizes the organism for attacking or fleeing an enemy

Question 13

general adaptation syndrome

Answer 13

model of the body’s stress response

alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Question 14

coping

Answer 14

active efforts to master, reduce or tolerate demands created by stress

Question 15

learned helplessness

Answer 15

giving up, passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events

Question 16

aggression

Answer 16

behavior intended to hurt someone

Question 17

catharis

Answer 17

release of emotional tension

Question 18

defense mechanisms

Answer 18

unconscious reaction that protect a person from unpleasant emotions

Question 19

denial of reality

Answer 19

refusing to face a stressor or denying it

Question 20

fantasy

Answer 20

gratifying frustrated desires by imaginary achievements

Question 21

intellectualization (isolation)

Answer 21

cutting off emotion from hurtful situations or separating incompatible attitudes so they appear unrelated (prisoner)

Question 22

undoing

Answer 22

atoning for acts or desires

Question 23

overcompensation

Answer 23

emphasizing desirable characteristics, making up for frustration in one area by over-gratification in other (emotional eating)

Question 24

burnout

Answer 24

exhaustion, cynicism and lowered sense of efficacy brought on gradually by work-related stress

Question 25

psychosomatic diseases

Answer 25

physical ailments brought on by stress

Question 26

type A personality

Answer 26

competitive, impatient, anger/hostility

Question 27

type B personality

Answer 27

relaxed, patient, easygoing, healthier

Question 28

optimism

Answer 28

tendency to consistently expect a good outcome, more willing to get support

Question 29

catastrophic thinking

Answer 29

exaggerating one’s problems

Question 30

stress pathways are through the…

Answer 30

pituitary gland and autonomic nervous system

Question 31

Social Readjustment Rating Scale SRRS

Answer 31

measures change that causes stress

Question 32

constructive coping

Answer 32

healthy methods of dealing with stress