Chapter 1 Flashcards

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What is Stress?

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the constellation of cognitive, emotional, physiological, and behavioral reactions the organism experiences as it interacts with perceived threats and challenges

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Fight or Flight

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  • Concept coined by Walter Cannon

- The body’s physiological response to fight a stressor or flee from it

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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

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  • Selye 1956
  • Three stages of Chronic Stress:
    1) Alarm
    2) Resistance: depleting protection/ natural resources against stressors
    3) Exhaustion: immune systems breaking down; illness and death more accesible
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Distress

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Negative Stress

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Eustress

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Positive Stress

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Hazards and Uplifts Scale

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  • Lazarus (1984)

- Stress Scale that measures for irritants and pressures and positive encounters and experiences

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Appraisal

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  • Judgement about the relative significance of the event and evaluate as a threat or challenge (subjective vs objective)
  • example: being cut off in traffic results in anger
  • Primary: person evaluates present and potential harm or loss from event
  • Secondary:person evaluates coping resources; if not enough resources are available, threat is experienced
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Biopyschosocial Model of Health

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Newer model of health that views stress and health as a product of biological, psychological, and social influences

  • sees mind and body act as an interactive whole
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Biomedical Model of Health

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Model of health that focuses on the biological facts; binary view of health (health and illness are separate)
mind and body are separate entities

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Sense of Coherence

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From Antonovsky’s Salutogenic Model
3 main factors:
- Comprehensibility: the degree to which we can make cognitive sense of stimuli we perceive
- Manageability: our ability to access internal and external coping resources and use them when we need them
- Meaningfullness: our ability to emotionally make sense of demands and to perceive them as challenges rather than burdens

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Hedonic Adaption

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s the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes.

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