Chapter 14:Stress

Question 1

Stressors

Answer 1

Specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten his or her well-being

Question 2

Physical or psychological response to internal or external stressors

Answer 2

Stress

Question 3

Health Psychology

Answer 3

Subfield of psychology concerned with ways that psychological factors influence the causes and treatment of illness and maintenance of health

Question 4

Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe

Answer 4

Proposed that major life changes cause stress, and stress comes from positive and negative experiences

Question 5

Chronic Stressors

Answer 5

Continuous repetitive sources of stress (bullying,money problems)

Question 6

HPA

Answer 6

Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Adrenal

Question 7

______ gland dumps ACTH into the blood which sends hormone to the _____ gland to release cortisol and catecholamines

Answer 7

Pituitary ; adrenal

Question 8

Emotional or physiological reaction to an emergency that increases readiness for action

Answer 8

Fight or flight response

Question 9

Developed Fight or Flight response theory

Answer 9

Walter B Cannon

Question 10

Brain activation in response to threat occurs in the

Answer 10

Hypothalamus

Question 11

Three stage physiological response that appears regardless of a stressor encountered and who created this?

Answer 11

General Adaptation Syndrome created by Hans Selye

Question 12

The three stages of General Adaptation Syndrome

Answer 12

Alarm Stage- bodily resources responding to threat
Resistance Stage- coping with stressor
Exhaustion stage-body’s resistance collapses

Question 13

Caps at the ends of chromosomes that prevent them from sticking together

Answer 13

Telomeres

Question 14

Cells stop dividing when telomeres become _____

Answer 14

Too short

Question 15

Telomerase

Answer 15

Enzyme that rebuilds telomeres at the tops of chromosomes

Question 16

Lymphocytes

Answer 16

White blood cells that produce antibodies that fight infection including T and B cells

Question 17

Type A behaviour pattern

Answer 17

Tendency toward easily aroused hostility, impatience, a sense of time urgency

Question 18

Threat

Answer 18

Stressor that you believe you might not overcome

Question 19

Challenge

Answer 19

Stressor that you believe you can overcome

Question 20

Burnout

Answer 20

a state of physical emotional and mental exhaustion created by a long-term involvement in an emotionally demanding situation

Question 21

avoiding situations or thoughts that are reminders of a stressor and maintaining an artificially positive viewpoint-deliberately ignoring the problem

Answer 21

Repressive Coping

Question 22

facing a stressor and working to overcome it

Answer 22

Rational Coping

Question 23

Reframing

Answer 23

new or creative way of thinking of a stressor that reduces threat

Question 24

Reframing technique that helps people cope with stressful situations by developing positive ways to think about them

Answer 24

SIT- Stress inoculation training

Question 25

Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Answer 25

associated with higher sensitivity with pain

Question 26

Atherosclerosis

Answer 26

Gradual narrowing of the arteries that occurs as fatty deposits, or plaque, build up on the inner walls of the arteries

Question 27

Lazarus & Folkman (1984):

Answer 27

Primary appraisal: Interpretation of a stimulus as stressful or not
Secondary appraisal: Determination of whether the stressor is something that can be handled or not
Threat: Stressor that you believe might not be overcome
Challenge: Stressor you feel fairly confident you can control

Question 28

Three steps of Rational Coping

Answer 28

Acceptance: Accepting that a stressor exists
Exposure: Attending to or seeking out the stressor
Understanding: Working to find the meaning stressors hold in one’s life

Question 29

Use of an external monitoring device to obtain information about a bodily function and possibly gain control over it

Answer 29

Biofeedback