Exam 1 Flashcards
Holistic Health:
Encompasses physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and social dimensions
A holistically healthy person functions as a total________ ________
Balanced, person
Stressor:
Anything that causes a stress response
Eustress:
Positive stress
Distress:
Negative stress
Acute Stress:
Stress that appears suddenly, is intense, then disappears
Chronic Stress:
Long term stress resulting from nagging problems that don’t go away. Wears the body down and may even lead to death
Episodic Acute Stress:
Frequent episodes of acute stress
Physiological indicators of stress:
Heart rate, breathing rate, pupils, salivating
Type of Stress Assessments:
Stress diary, student stress scale, perceived stress scale
Homeostasis=
Balance
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS):
Controls unconscious bodily functions like breathing
Sympathetic Nervous System:
A branch of the ANS that is responsible for initiating the fight or flight response
Parasympathetic Nervous System:
Branch of the ANS that returns the body to homeostasis
Fight or Flight Response:
Caused by a surge of hormones that help a person deal with danger by either fighting or running, helping them to survive. It is usually short term
Tend and Befriend:
Women are different from men in the way they cope with things because they typically want to surround themselves with friends or other people to help them deal with their stress
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS):
The process by which the body tries to adapt to stress
GAS Stages:
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
Myths about stress:
- in an ideal world there would be no stress
- what is stressful to me is also stressful to you
- only unpleasant situations are stressful
- no symptoms, no stress
- Stress is inevitable so you can’t do anything about it
Psychosomatic Illness:
Conditions that have a mind and body component
Placebo Effect:
The treatment has no effect but a positive effect is created by a persons belief that they will benefit from the intervention
Nocebo Efffect:
A negative effect created by a persons belief that there will be negative outcomes to the intervention
Allostatic Load:
Cumulative, physiological wear and tear on the body from ongoing attempts to maintain homeostasis
Power of Perception:
The perception of an event is what initiates the flight or fight response, NOT the event itself
Cognitive Reconstructing:
The mental act of changing the meaning of our interpretations of the the stressors in life
Hardiness:
A hardy person is someone who:
- Views potentially stressful events as interesting and meaningful (Commitment)
- who sees change as normal and an opportunity for growth (Challenge)
- who sees themselves as capable of having an influence on events (Control)
Internal Locus of Control:
See themselves as responsible for the outcomes of their own actions
External Locus of Control:
Believes that whatever happens to them is unrelated to their own behavior- making it beyond their control
Self-Efficacy:
The belief in our ability to accomplish a goal or a behavior
Positive Self-Talk:
Sending positive messages to yourself. Making a conscious effort to shift negative thoughts to positive thoughts
ABCDE Technique:
A method of coping with anxiety, which consists of examining beliefs
ABCDE:
A: activating event (identifying stressor)
B: belief system (identify rational and irrational beliefs)
C: consequences (mental, physical, behavioral)
D: dispute irrational beliefs
E: effect (change consequences)
Mindfulness:
The state of being attentive to and aware of what is taking place in the present
Mindlessness:
Occurs when our thoughts are not in the present moment and when we tune out what is happening
Somatizing:
A tendency to experience and communicate psychological distress in the form of somatic symptoms
