Chapter 16- Stress and Health

Question 1

stress

Answer 1

physical and psychological response to internal or external stressors

Question 2

stressor

Answer 2

specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten the person’s well-being

Question 3

fight-or-flight response

Answer 3

emotional and physiological reaction to an emergency that increases readiness for action

Question 4

GAS (general adaptation syndrome)

Answer 4

three-stage physiological response that appears regardless of the stressor that is encountered (alarm, resistance and exhaustion phases)

Question 5

Type A behavior

Answer 5

tendency toward easily aroused hostility, impatience, a sense of time urgency, and competitive achievement strivings

Question 6

PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)

Answer 6

psychological disorder characterized by chronic physiological arousal, recurrent unwanted thoughts or images of the trauma, and avoidance of things that call the trauma to mind

Question 7

burnout

Answer 7

state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion created by longterm involvement in an emotionally demanding situation and accompanied by lowered performance and motivation

Question 8

repressive coping

Answer 8

avoiding situations or thoughts that are reminders of a stressor and maintaining an artificially positive viewpoint

Question 9

reframing

Answer 9

finding a new or creative way to think about a stressor that reduces its threat

Question 10

relaxation therapy

Answer 10

technique for reducing tension by consciously relaxing muscles of the body

Question 11

biofeedback

Answer 11

the use of an external monitoring device to obtain information about a bodily function and possibly gain control over that function

Question 12

social support

Answer 12

aid gained through interacting with others

Question 13

psychosomatic illness

Answer 13

interaction between mind and body that can produce illness

Question 14

somatoform disorders

Answer 14

set of psychological disorders in which the person displays physical symptoms not fully explained by a general medical condition

Question 15

hypochondriasis

Answer 15

psychological disorder in which a person is preoccupied with minor symptoms and develops an exaggerated belief that the symptoms signify a life-threatening illness (person attempt to self-diagnose/pin-point disease)

Question 16

conversion disorders

Answer 16

disorder characterized by apparently debilitating physical symptoms that appear to be voluntary - but that the person experiences as involuntary

Question 17

somatization disorders

Answer 17

psychological disorder involving combinations of multiple physical complaints with no medical explanation (person seeks sympathy, not necessarily trying to self-diagnose disease)