Chapter 12: Stress & Illness (Unit-3) Flashcards
What are the three categories of stressors?
- catastrophes
- significant life changes
- daily hassles
What is General adaptation syndrome?
Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
What is Selye’s basic point?
Although the human body copes well with temporary stress, prolonged stress can damage it
What is tend and befriend?
Under stress, people often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend)
What is health and psychology?
Subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioural medicine
What is psychoneuroimmunology?
The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and health
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 Type A personality?
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people.
What is type B personality?
Friedman and Rosenman’s term easygoing, relaxed people
What is type D personality?
People with this personality type suppress their negative emotion to avoid social disapproval
What is coping?
Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioural methods.
What is problem focussed coping?
Attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor
What is emotion focussed coping?
Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to her stress reaction.
What is learned helplessness?
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
What is U-Stress?
Positive stress.
-positive because they are pleasant, fulfilling. And we feel like we have some control over them
Comes from positive activities such as planning a party sports, dating, buying a car warehouse, traveling.