Chapter # 7 Flashcards
Stress
The body’s reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental, or emotional adjustment or response.
Amygdala
The area of the Limbic system that controls fear type responses.
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
Hans Selye’s hypothesis that stress plays a general role in disease by exhausting the body’s immune system.
Alarm Phase
When an outside stressor jolts that individual, insisting that something must be done.
Resistance Phase
When the body begins to release cortisol and draws on fats and sugar to find a way to adjust to the demands of stress.
Exhaustion Phase
When the body has depleted its stores of sugars and fats, and the prolonged release of cortisol has caused the stressor to significantly weaken the individual.
Stressor
Events or contexts that cause a stress reaction by elevating levels of adrenaline and forcing a physical or mental response.
Role Ambiguity
Vagueness in relation to our job responsibilities.
Role Conflict
Facing contradictory demands at work.
Role Overload
Having insufficient time and resources to complete one’s job.
Information Overload
Information processing demands that exceed the supply or capacity of time available for such processing.
Work-Family Conflict
When the demands from one’s work and family are negatively affecting one another.
Type A personalities
People who display high levels of speed/impatience, job involvement, and hard-driving competitiveness.
Type B personalities
People who tend to be calmer than type A people, and tend to think through situations as opposed to reacting emotionally.
Flow
A state of consciousness in which a person is totally absorbed in an activity.
