Chapter 3 - Stress & Health Psychology Flashcards

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Stress conflicts

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  1. Approach approach conflict
  2. Approach avoidance
  3. Approach approach
  4. Double approach avoidance
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Homeostasis

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Balance

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Sympathetic nervous system is

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To fight it to flee

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What did hans selye create

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The general adaptation syndrome

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Psychoneuroimmology

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The study of the interaction among the mind, the nervous system and the immune system

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Stress and the heart

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Stress makes the heart beat faster and they’re more prone to have high cholesterol

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What is a type a personality, hostile and hardiness?

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Type a: will get a heart attack

Hostile: motivated/ambitious people

Hardiness: able to come in stressful situations (control, commitment and challenge)

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What is a heart attack? Stroke?

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Heart attack: when the heart isn’t getting enough oxygen

Stoke: blood vessel breaks

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What are ways to reduce stress?

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  • live within your budget (no credit cards)
  • simplify and unclutter your life
  • allow extra time to go to places and do thing
  • weed our trivia
  • live in the present
  • be thankful and grateful
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PTSD:

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Disorder that develops following exposure to a life threatening or other extremes

SHELL SHOCK WAS THE TERM IN WAR

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what are some symptoms of PTSD:

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Startled response 
Severe anxiety 
Drug/alcohol
Extreme sensitivity 
Anger easily
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What is an addiction, withdrawal and dopamine

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Addiction: something that body needs to have

Withdrawal: symptoms that occur when you don’t fulfil addiction

Dopamine: a please neurotransmitter

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Kursakoff syndrome and its problems:

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Drinking too much for too long

Problems: brain damage, disorientation, lack of insight, apathy all because of vitamin differency

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BRAINS INTERPRETATION:
1) primary appraisal

2) secondary appraisal

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Primary appraisal: is that situation harmful? Challenging? Threatening?

Secondary appraisal: chose a coping method

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People who are able to cope better are:

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-people who exercise, have social skills, social support, control, material resources and a sense of humor

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What is stress?

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It’s the body’s non-specific response to any demand made on it, physical and mental arousal to events we perceive as threatening or challenging