Chapter 10- Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing

Question 1

Attempting to reduce stress directly- by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor

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Problem-focused coping

Question 2

The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate

Answer 2

External locus of control

Question 3

Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless

Answer 3

Personal control

Question 4

According to “____” people in low-conflict marriages live longer, healthier lives than unmarried people

Answer 4

Kaplan and colleagues

Question 5

The process of appraising an event as threatening or challenging

Answer 5

Stress

Question 6

Term for people who suppress negative emotion to avoid social disapproval

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Type D

Question 7

These type of Lymphocytes release antibodies that fight bacterial infections

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B Lymphocytes

Question 8

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in the united states and many other countries

Answer 8

Coronary heart disease

Question 9

This term includes feelings of happiness and sense of satisfaction with life

Answer 9

Subjective well-being

Question 10

More than 60 studies found that “____” can provide relief from headaches, high blood pressure, anxiety and insomnia

Answer 10

Relaxation

Question 11

The response people have when under stress by often providing support and bonding with others

Answer 11

Tend-and befriend response

Question 12

If the immune system responds too strongly or underreacts, the system does not “______” “______”.

Answer 12

Function properly

Question 13

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people

Answer 13

Type B

Question 14

These everyday “____” can negatively affect physical and mental well-being

Answer 14

Hassles

Question 15

A method of dealing with stress by seeing the situation as beyond control and act to diminish stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor

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Emotion-focused coping

Question 16

This involves a dramatic form of loss of control and may result in negative health consequences

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Learned helplessness

Question 17

Rheumatoid arthritis and allergic reactions are examples of

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Self-attacking diseases caused by reacting too strongly

Question 18

Alarm reaction and mobilization of one’s resources is included in Selye’s “______”

Answer 18

Phase 1

Question 19

This body system is affected by age, nutrition, genetics, body temperature and stress

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Immune system

Question 20

Selys’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three stages- alarm, resistance, exhaustion is called “______”“______”“______”

Answer 20

General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

Question 21

Does stress make people sick?

Answer 21

No but it reduces the Immune system’s ability to function optimally

Question 22

The perception that we control our own fate

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Internal locus of control

Question 23

Resistance towards and coping of stressor(s) is included in Seyle’s “______”

Answer 23

Phase 2

Question 24

Unpleasant, large-scale events

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Catastrophes

Question 25

A type of white blood cells that are a part of the body's immune system

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Lymphocytes

Question 26

"\_\_\_\_\_\_" is the anticipation of positive outcomes

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Optimism

Question 27

This type of training has been used to help Type A heart attack survivors reduce risk of future heart attacks

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Relaxation training

Question 28

Bacterial infection flare, dormant herpes virus eruption and cancer cells multiplying are examples of

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The Immune system underreacting

Question 29

This involves sustained activity that increases heart and lung fitness, reduces stress, depression and anxiety

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Aerobic exercise

Question 30

A method of dealing with stress by seeing the situation as changeable and generating solutions

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Problem-focused coping

Question 31

"\_\_\_\_\_\_" is the anticipation of negative outcomes.

Answer 31

Pessimism

Question 32

These type of Lymphocytes attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign substances

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T Lymphocytes

Question 33

According to "\_\_\_\_" people supported by close relationships are less likely to die early

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Uchino

Question 34

Body's stress resistance is most high in this phase of Seyle's

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Phase 2

Question 35

This type of mediation involves attention to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner that involves learning to reflect and accept

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Mindfulness meditation

Question 36

Reducing stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods

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Coping

Question 37

This type of stress can cause actual harm

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Extreme or prolonged stress

Question 38

Stressors appraised as "\_\_\_\_\_\_" can lead to strong negative reactions

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Threats

Question 39

According to "\_\_\_\_" healthy aging is better predicted by a good marriage than by a low cholesterol level

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Valliant

Question 40

Things that "push our buttons"

Answer 40

Stressors

Question 41

According to Meyer and colleagues

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Stress predicted heart attack risk for tax accountants and that type A men are more likely to have a heart attack

Question 42

The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or person learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events

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Learned helplessness

Question 43

Our tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood

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Feel-good, do-good phenomenon

Question 44

In Seyle's "\_\_\_\_\_\_" exhaustion sets in, one's reserves are depleted

Answer 44

Phase 3

Question 45

Personal events that raises risk of disease and death

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Significant life changes

Question 46

The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes combine to affect our immune system and health

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Psychoneuroimmunology

Question 47

The process of bouncing back in the face of adversity or significant sources of stress

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Resilience

Question 48

Can stress give people AIDS?

Answer 48

No but stress can speed the transition from HIV infection to AIDS and the decline in those with AIDS

Question 49

Those who have an "\_\_\_\_" locus of control believe they control their own destiny

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Internal locus

Question 50

Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people

Answer 50

Type A

Question 51

"\_\_\_\_\_\_""\_\_\_\_\_\_""\_\_\_\_\_\_" is our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our past experiences

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Adaptation-level phenomenon

Question 52

Those who have an "\_\_\_\_" locus of control believe that chance or outside forces control their fate

Answer 52

External locus

Question 53

This nervous system arouses the body when alerted to a negative, uncontrollable event

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Sympathetic

Question 54

An emergency response, including activity of the sympathetic nervous system, that mobilizes energy and activity for attacking or escaping a threat

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Fight or flight response

Question 55

The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves

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Relative deprivation

Question 56

When a human or animal feels helpless to avoid negative situations

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Learned helplessness