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Ch.3: Stress And Health Psychology Flashcards

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1
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Stressors are?

A

Stress response

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What source of stress requires some adjustment in behavior or lifestyle.

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Life change

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What source of stress is a stressful occurrence that occurs suddenly and generally affect many people

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Cataclysmic events

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A continuous state of arousal in which demands are perceived as greater than the inner and outer resources available for dealing with them

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Chronic stress

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Type of stress that results from unemployment, job change, worries about job performance

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Job stress

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The interpretation of specific events, called stressors, as threatening or challenging

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Stress

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7
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type of stress involved in small problems of daily living that can pile up and become a major source of stress

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Hassles

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a negative emotional state resulting from blocked goal

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frustration

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a forced choice between two or more incompatible goal or impulses

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conflict

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type of conflicts that involves forced choice between two options both of which have equally desirable charcteristics

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approach-approach conflict

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Type of conflict that involves forced choice between two options both of which have equally undesirable characteristics

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avoidance-avoidance conflict

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Type of conflict that involves forced choice within one option which has equally desireable and undesireable characteristics. a partial approach.

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approach-avoidance conflict

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In GAS, general adaptation syndrome, what are the three main phases, list them in order.

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Alarm phase, resistance phase, exhaustion phase

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Which phase revolves around feeling surprised or threatened, causing an increase heart rate, blood pressure. Fight or flight

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Alarm phase

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which phase revolves around when the arousal remains higher than normal, outpouring of stress hormones. coping method is used.

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Resistance phase

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The phase where your body becomes susceptible to serious illnesses. experience possible irreversible damage to your body. May result to collapse and even death

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Exhaustion phase

17
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What happens during the SAM system?

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release of norepinephrine & epinephrine, increases heart rates, blood pressure. digestion is decreased.

18
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What happens during the HPA axis

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the pituary gland activates the adrenal cortex and releases Glucorticode, includes cortisol. increase of energy

19
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this type of hormone helps fight stressors, yet if levels stay high, it hinders the body’s immune system

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Cortisol

20
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studies the effects of psychological and other factors on the immune system

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Psychoneuroimmulogy

21
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stress is related to four serious illnesses, which include

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Gastric ulcers,cancer, cardiovascular disorders, and PTSD

22
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What kind of behavior will a person who is Type A have?

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hostile, competitive, uptight, ambitious

23
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What kind of behavior will a person who is Type B have?

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relax, calm, serene, chill

24
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Interested in how changes in behavior can improve health customers, emphasize the relationship between stress and the immune system

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Health psychology

25
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a type of coping method that works to deal directly with a stressor in order to decrease or eliminate it

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Problem-Focused coping

26
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a type of coping method that attempts to relieve or regulate our emotional reactions. (cant change the problem but makes us feel better)

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Emotional-Focused coping

27
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Freud description of the strategies the ego supposedly uses to protect itself from anxiety. Distorts reality

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Defense mechanism

28
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The belief that we control our own fate

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internal locus control

29
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The belief that chance or outside forces beyond our control determine our fate

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external locus control

30
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minfulness-based stress reduction programs usually include

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social support

31
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six additonal external stress resources are

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exercise
social skills
behavior change
stressor control
material resources
relaxation

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