Chapter 11 Flashcards
What is a fight or flight response?
Rxn to danger in which the sympathetic nervous system prepares the organs for vigorous activity
What is the Yerkes Dodson Law?
Optimal level of stress may be helpful (performance is best at medium stress levels)
Parasympathetic vs sympathetic nervous systems?
Parasympathetic slows time down and relaxes you after stressful situation to help recover, digest and rest
Sympathetic is during activity, corticosteroids and catecholamines are released to inc blood pressure, heart rate etc
What is catastrophic thinking?
Cognitive distortion of the scale and impact of a stressful event
What are Basic emotions?
Feeling states that are thought to be expressed in a universal way
What is Facial feedback hypothesis?
Theory suggesting that the position of the facial muscles influences emotional expression
Emotions involve which four components?
Physiological, behavioral, cognitive and affective
What is Frustration aggression hypothesis?
Theory suggesting anger is a rxn to a goal being blocked or unattainable
Approach Approach Conflict
Decision must be made between two incompatible choices that both have positive features
Avoidance Avoidance Conflict
Decision must be made between two undesirable choices
Approach Avoidance conflict
Decision must be made about a goal that has both positive and negative features
Multiple approach avoidance conflict
Decision must be made between many choices multitudes of positive and negative features
What is acculturative stress?
Anxiety felt in response to challenges from new cultural expectations
What is emotion focused coping?
Rxn to stress that involves the management of event causing the stress
What is problem focused coping?
Healthy efforts to reduce the impact of stressors
