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Chapter 12 Flashcards

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Stress

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Physiological responses that occur when an organism fails to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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Extreme negative events may produce an extreme form of stress known as Post Traumatic stress Disorder

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Symptoms of PTSD

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Anxiety, sleeplessness, nightmares and social withdrawal

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Who created the General Adaptation Syndrome

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Hans Selye

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3 phases of General Adaptation Syndrome

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Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion

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Alarm

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First reaction to stress
Body releases stress hormones, including cortisol

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Resistance

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After a period of chronic stress, body adapts to the ongoing threat and tries to return to its normal functions

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Exhaustion

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Body runs out of its energy reserve. Blood sugar levels decrease, leading to decreased stress tolerance.
Body organs begin to fail, and eventually death occurs

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HPA axis

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A physiological response to stress involving
Hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal glands to secrete hormones

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Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale

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Measure of some everyday life events that might lead to stress

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Emotion Regulation

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Ability to successfully control our emotions

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Stress impact on personal

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When stressors are measured comprehensively, their damaging impacts
on physical and mental health are substantial.

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Stress impact on socioeconomic

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Differential exposure to stressful experiences can produce
gender, racial-ethnic, marital status, and social class inequalities in physical and
mental health.

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Stress impact on socio-political

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Stressors proliferate over the course of life and across generations,
widening health gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged group members.

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Adrenaline

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Harmone that increases heart rate, blood pressure and energy

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Cortisol

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Primary stress hormone that increases sugars in the bloodstream, enhances the brains use of glucose, and increases the availability of substances that repair tissues

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Eustress

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Refers to stress that is not neccesarily deliberative and could be potentially facilitate to a persons sense of well being, capacity or performance

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Hardiness Theoretical model

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Illustrates resilient stress response patterns in individuals and groups

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Commitment

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Tendency to see the world as interesting and meaningful

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Control

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Belief in ones ability to control or influence events

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Challenge

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Seeing a change and new experiences as exciting opportunities to learn and develop

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Inverted U hypothesis

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Stress can be growth inducing but there us a turning point when stress becomes deliberative

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How can stress be viewed as

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Response, stimulus and transaction

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Who captured the GAS model

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Hans Selye

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What does the GAS model descibe

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Stress is a defence mechanism
Stress follows the three stages of alarm, resistance and exhaustion
If the stress is prolonged or severe, it could result in diseases of adaptation or even death

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Transactional Theory of Stress and Coping (TTSC)

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Presents stress as a product of a transaction between person (including multiple systems: Cognitive, physiological, affective, psychological and neurological) and their complex environment

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Primary Appraisal

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Involves determining whether the stressor poses a threat

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Secondary Appraisal

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Involves the individuals evaluation of the resources or coping stratergies at their disposal for addressing any perceived threats

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Reappraisal

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involves continually reappraising both the nature of the stressor and the
resources available for responding to the stressor.

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Internal Locus of Control

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achievements and outcomes are believed to be determined by a person’s own decisions and efforts.

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External Locus of Control

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achievements and outcomes are believed to be determined by fate, luck, or other.

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Self efficacy

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Extent or strength of ones belief in ones own ability to complete tasks and reach goals

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Stress Related Growth

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a dispositional response to stress that enables the individual to see opportunities for growth as opposed to threat or debilitation.

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Thriving

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Being (better off after adversity)

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Biopsychosocial Model of Health

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posits that biology, psychology, and social factors are just as important in the development of disease as biological causes (e.g., germs, viruses).

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Resilience

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What keeps us protected from disease and alive longer?

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Five Factors of protecting our health

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Coping
Control and Self Efficacy
Social Relationships
Dispositions and emotions
Stress Management

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Problem Foused Coping

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actively addressing the event that is causing stress in an effort to solve the issue at hand.

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Emotion Focused Coping

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regulates the emotions that come with stress.

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Social Integration

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describes the number of social roles that you have as well as the lack of isolation.

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Type A behaviour

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Being competitive, impatient, hostile, and time urgent. This pattern is associated with double the risk of heart disease as compared with Type B Behavior.

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Biofeedback

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a technique where the individual is shown bodily information that is
not normally available to them, and then taught strategies to alter this signal.

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Health Beviours

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Behaviours that can improve or harm your health

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Behavioural Medicine

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occupations might include jobs in occupational therapy, rehabilitation, or preventative medicine.

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Positive Psychology

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It focuses on measuring aspects of the human condition that lead to happiness,
fulfillment, and flourishing.

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Six core virtues

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courage, justice, humanity, temperance, transcendence and
wisdom.

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Three strengths of positive Psychology

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Forgiveness
Gratitude
Humility

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Forgiveness

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Essential to harmonious long term relationships between individuals

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Gratitude

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is a feeling of appreciation or thankfulness in response to receiving a
benefit.

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