chapter 1 Flashcards
The first person to describe the effects of accute stress
Walter Cannon
Primitive Response that increases heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, and seurm cholestrol
Fight or Flight Response
first person to describe effects of long term chronic stress
Hans Selye
3 states of General Adaption syndrome
- Alarm Reaction 2. stage of resistance 3. stage of Exhaustion
defined stress as a nonspecific response of the body to any demand made upon it
Hans Selye
two types of stress
Eustress and Distress
good stress
Eustress
bad stress
Distress
human brain failure to symbolic stressors of 20th century life
Simeons
ilness, disease and stress (emotional stress of pow camps and death)
Wold, Lejhan, Engel
Identified relationship between stress and coronary heart diseases
Friedman and Rosenman
Stress and Headaches
wolf and wolff
imagery of tx benifits and cancer therapy
Simonton
Techniques and concepts
realization response, autogenic training, progressive muscular relaxation, biofeedback
theory wher ea situation requires more resources than are available, more stressful events one experiences, the greater his stress, and daily hassles and uplifts
life events theory