Chapter 10-Stress, Health, & Human Flourishing Flashcards
What is stress?
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
What is fight-or-flight?
An emergency response, including activity of the sympathetic nervous system, that mobilizes energy and activity for attacking or escaping a threat.
What is general adaptation syndrome (GAS)?
Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three stages- alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
What is coronary heart disease?
The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscles; the leading cause of death in the United States and many other countries.
What is personal control?
Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.
What is learned helplessness?
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or person learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.
What is external locus of control?
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate.
What is internal locus of control?
The perception that we control our own fate.
What is the feel-good-do-good phenomenon?
Our tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.
What is subjective well-being?
Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to judge our quality of life.
What is adaptation-level phenomenon?
Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, lights, or income) relative to a neutral level defined by our past experiences.
What is relative deprivation?
The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves.
Stress response system: When alerted to a negative, uncontrollable event, our _ nervous system arouses us. Heart rate and respiration (increase/decrease). Blood is diverted from digestion to the skeletal . The body releases sugar and fat. All of this prepares the body for the _-- response.
Sympathetic; increase; muscles; fight-or-flight
_ focuses on mind-body interactions, including the effects of psychological, neural, and endocrine functioning on the immune system and overall health.
Psychoneuroimmunology
What general effect does stress have on your overall health?
Stress tends to reduce our immune system’s ability to function properly. So that those who regularly experience higher stress also have a higher risk of physical illness.
