Ch.3: Stress And Health Psychology Flashcards
Stressors are?
Stress response
What source of stress requires some adjustment in behavior or lifestyle.
Life change
What source of stress is a stressful occurrence that occurs suddenly and generally affect many people
Cataclysmic events
A continuous state of arousal in which demands are perceived as greater than the inner and outer resources available for dealing with them
Chronic stress
Type of stress that results from unemployment, job change, worries about job performance
Job stress
The interpretation of specific events, called stressors, as threatening or challenging
Stress
type of stress involved in small problems of daily living that can pile up and become a major source of stress
Hassles
a negative emotional state resulting from blocked goal
frustration
a forced choice between two or more incompatible goal or impulses
conflict
type of conflicts that involves forced choice between two options both of which have equally desirable charcteristics
approach-approach conflict
Type of conflict that involves forced choice between two options both of which have equally undesirable characteristics
avoidance-avoidance conflict
Type of conflict that involves forced choice within one option which has equally desireable and undesireable characteristics. a partial approach.
approach-avoidance conflict
In GAS, general adaptation syndrome, what are the three main phases, list them in order.
Alarm phase, resistance phase, exhaustion phase
Which phase revolves around feeling surprised or threatened, causing an increase heart rate, blood pressure. Fight or flight
Alarm phase
which phase revolves around when the arousal remains higher than normal, outpouring of stress hormones. coping method is used.
Resistance phase
The phase where your body becomes susceptible to serious illnesses. experience possible irreversible damage to your body. May result to collapse and even death
Exhaustion phase
What happens during the SAM system?
release of norepinephrine & epinephrine, increases heart rates, blood pressure. digestion is decreased.
What happens during the HPA axis
the pituary gland activates the adrenal cortex and releases Glucorticode, includes cortisol. increase of energy
this type of hormone helps fight stressors, yet if levels stay high, it hinders the body’s immune system
Cortisol
studies the effects of psychological and other factors on the immune system
Psychoneuroimmulogy
stress is related to four serious illnesses, which include
Gastric ulcers,cancer, cardiovascular disorders, and PTSD
What kind of behavior will a person who is Type A have?
hostile, competitive, uptight, ambitious
What kind of behavior will a person who is Type B have?
relax, calm, serene, chill
Interested in how changes in behavior can improve health customers, emphasize the relationship between stress and the immune system
Health psychology
a type of coping method that works to deal directly with a stressor in order to decrease or eliminate it
Problem-Focused coping
a type of coping method that attempts to relieve or regulate our emotional reactions. (cant change the problem but makes us feel better)
Emotional-Focused coping
Freud description of the strategies the ego supposedly uses to protect itself from anxiety. Distorts reality
Defense mechanism
The belief that we control our own fate
internal locus control
The belief that chance or outside forces beyond our control determine our fate
external locus control
minfulness-based stress reduction programs usually include
social support
six additonal external stress resources are
exercise social skills behavior change stressor control material resources relaxation
