Ch.15 Stress Health Flashcards
A stress producing event or situation
Stressor
The body’s response to a stressor
Stress reaction
Stress that stems from acute anxiety or pressure
Distress
Positive stress, which results from motivating striving a and challenges
Eustress
When a person must choose between two or more options hat tend to results from opposing motives
Conflict situation
A vague, generalized apprehension of feeling danger
Anxiety
The irate reaction likely to result from frustration
Anger
A person’s reaction to his or her inability to cope with a certain tense even for situation
Stress
The usual reaction when a stressor involves real or imagined danger
Fear
The body’s natural defense system against infection
Immune system
Information that leads someone to believe that he or she is cared for, loved respected, and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation
Social support
The interpretation of an event that helps determine it’s stress impact
Cognitive appraisal
A coping mechanism in which a person decides that the event is not really a stressor
Denial
A coping mechanism in which the person analyzes a situation from an emotionally detached viewpoint
Intellectualization
Lying down comfortably and tensing and releasing the tension in each major muscle group in turn
Progressive relaxation
A focusing of attending with the goal of clearing one’s mind and producing an “ inner peace”
Meditation
The process of learning to control bodily states by monitoring the states to be controlled
Biofeedback
Ability to take care on oneself and make one’s own decision
Autonomy
Friends force one another to reexamine their basic assumptions and perhaps adopt new ideas and beliefs
Developmental friendship
Combining old ideas with new ones and reorganizing feelings in order to renew one’s identity
Resynthesis
The concept that women and men should receive equal pay for jobs calling for comparable skill and responsibility
Comparable worth
