Chapter 11 - Stress And Health

Question 1

Eustress

Answer 1

• Effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being.

Question 2

Catastrophe

Answer 2

• An unpredictable, large-scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as overwhelming feelings of threat.

Question 3

Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)

Answer 3

• Assessment that measures the amount of stress in a person’s life over a 1 year period resulting from Major life events.

Question 4

College Undergraduate Stress Scale (CUSS)

Answer 4

• Assessment that measures the amount of stress in college student’s life over a 1 year period resulting from Major life events.

Question 5

Hassles

Answer 5

• The daily annoyances of everyday life.

Question 6

Stress

Answer 6

• Term used to describe the physical, emotions, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging.

Question 7

Stressors

Answer 7

• Events that cause a stress reaction.

Question 8

Distress

Answer 8

• The effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors.

Question 9

General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

Answer 9

-Three stages of the body’s physiology reaction to stress, including alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

Question 10

Immune system

Answer 10

• System of cells, organs, and chemicals of the body that responds to attacks from diseases, infections, and injuries.

Question 11

Psychoneuroimmunology

Answer 11

• Study of the effects of psychological factors such as stress, emotions, thoughts,and behavior on the immune system.

Question 12

Coronary heart disease (CHD)

Answer 12

• Buildup of a waxy substance called plaque in the arteries of the heart.

Question 13

Type 2 diabetes

Answer 13

• Disease typically occurring in middle adulthood when the body either becomes resistant to the effects of insulin or can no longer secrete enough insulin to maintain normal glucose levels.

Question 14

Natural killer (NK) cell

Answer 14

• Immune-system fell responsible for suppressing viruses and destroying tumor cells.

Question 15

Health Psychology

Answer 15

• Area of psychology focusing on how physical activities, psychological traits, stress reactions, and social relationships affect overall health and rate of illnesses.

Question 16

Mindful meditation

Answer 16

-A form of concentrative meditation in which the person purposefully pays attention to the present moment, without judgement or evaluation.

Question 17

Use of Coping with effects of stress

Answer 17

• Reduce stress by deliberately and purposefully paying attention to the moment-by-moment “unfolding” of experience without judging that experience.
• Increases sense of well-being, and improve emotional health.