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Exam 2- Stress Flashcards

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Stess=

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pressure- adaptability

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What is stress?

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Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand or threat. When you feel threatened, your nervous system responds by releasing a flood of stress hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol, which rouse the body for emergency action.

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What is the differences between stress and strain

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strain- deformation
stress- pushing or adding weight
*strain is the bending of the bone and stress is the amount place on the body

** everyone can have the same stress applied but the strain will be different on everyone!

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Types of stress

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  • body sees stress as stress! We as humans talk about it in types.
  • Eustress- things that are good to the body
  • Distress- over training, things that are bad for the body.
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Application of Stress

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Exp is applying stress to the body

  • make sure you have stress relief
    • Stressor today→ economy, health care, war, technology
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Information overload can add to stressors

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  • internet- google, youtube, FB, wiki
  • Communication- email, cell phone, texting, twitter, snapchat
  • smart phones smart watchers
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Who is Hans Selye

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-Canadian endocrinologist
→ The stress of life (1956)
-summarized stress reactivity into a 3 phase process
-coined the term stress
-general adaption syndrome (GAS)
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(GAS) General Adaption Syndrome

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1 alarm
2 resistance
3 exhasution

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Alarm

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first reaction to stressors resistance diminished

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Resistance

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if the body adapts to the stressor ↑ resistance occurs alarm reaction disappe

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Exhasustion

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long continued exposure wears down body resistance, adaptation energy is exhausted. Alarm reaction sign reappears individual can eventually die.

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Harold G. Wolff

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  • MD who studied WW2 POWs
  • 1% held by germans died before release
  • 33% held by japanese died before release
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Why did the japanese have more deaths during WW2

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the japs put the pow under so much more stress. this amount of stressed caused them to die.

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Walter B. Cannon

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physiologist at havard medical school

  • came up with homeostasis (1926)
  • identified the stress reaction→ fight or flight
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what happens during a fight or flight response

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↑ HR, BP, Breathing rate

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Why do human and animals have this innate programming

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for survival

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what is it place into today world?

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  • think of when someone get pulled over- this response does nothing to help you but it happens
  • also think about when someone is being attacked- think of when people at work scare me this happens
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How do you deal with stress

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relaxation: a series of bodily changing that are the opposite of the stress reaction

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Relaxation techniques

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1 autogenic relaxation

2 progressive relaxation

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Autogenic relaxation

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evoking sensation of heaviness warmth, and tingling in the limbs??

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progressive relaxation

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contracting and relaxation muscle groups throughout the body

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meditation

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some have demonstrated the ability to induce a hypo-metabolic state

  • zen monks
  • indian gois
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Stress theory’s

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life events
Hardiness
Social support

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Life Event theory

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  • stress occurs when a situation requires more resources than are available
  • routine stress events are more significant than major ones that happen infrequently( bad stress)
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Hardiness Theory

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-if potentially stressful events are perceived as a challenge instead of a threat,less stress will result

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Attitude is everything

Hardiness Theory

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commitment, control, challenge

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Resilience

Hardiness Theory

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the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity

  • the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness
  • –ability to cope with stress & adversity
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charles darwin quotes

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it is not the strongest of the species that survives,nor the most intelligent that survives. it is the one that is the most adaptable to change

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charles darwin quotes 2

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in the struggle for survuival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their enviroment

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What to take away from the darwin quotes

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adaptability to stress

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What makes a guy like sully

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he needed to have the plane at 12% incline to hit the water without killing anyone.

    • he was able to handle large amount of stress
  • –landed in the Hudson river after a bunch of bird killed both of the engines
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Utah couple that dies hours of each other

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they were married for 63 years.

they were unable to handle the stress

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Social Support Theory

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  • stress occurs when there is not enough social support available to respond to the event effectively
  • -emotional
    • financial
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Major Components of stress

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  • stresser

- stress reaction

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Stresser

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  • stimulus with potential for triggering the fight or flight response ( getting fired)
  • regardless of type, the body generally responds in the same way ( physiologically) once their flight or fight response is triggered.
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Types of stressers

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  • biological
  • psychological
  • sociological
  • philosophical
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Important factors about stressers

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Duration- volume, how much

Degree- how hard, intensity

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Strain

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the physical psychological, behavioral outcomes of stress reactivity

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Gender differences with stress

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Females- more likely to flee, turn to others for help or attempt to diffuse the situation
Males- more likely to be aggressive

40
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♀

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venus- roman goddess- her hand mirror and comb

41
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♂

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mars- roman god- his shied and spear

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Eliminate All stress?

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probably not a good idea

  • stress can have beneficial side effects related to motivation, stimulation and health
  • the relationship between stress and illness is a complete one
  • the Inverted U theory
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Today stressed (angry) world

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  • road/ sky rage
  • over emotional “sports” parents - football
  • celebrities and famous people- above the law
  • people are super emotional
  • think of the stress with this prestintal election
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Why so angery?

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reasons?–probably not a simple answer

45
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bunch of college stress

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  • biological reason / systems
  • such as crying, drinking, over eating
  • ways to help with stress
  • emotions - anger, joy, sad
  • mental problems
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Locked in syndrome

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  • complete paralysis of all voluntary muscles exept the eye ( sometimes)
  • closest thing to being buried alive
  • result of a brain stem lesion in which the ventral part of the pons is damaged
  • –often precipitated by a specific type of stroke
  • —– basilar artery
  • the diving bell and the butterfly (1997)
    • eye tracking devices now!
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stressors to humanity

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Capernicus- world was not the center of the universe
– sun was the center of the universe
Darwin- evolution
Many others

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SNS Effect

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-↑ HR, contractility of heart, dilate coronary arteries,constrict and arteries, dilated pupils, dilate bronchial tubes, …. there were more

49
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Stress and the heart

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hypertrophy- left ventricular thypertopy

  • good LVH
  • Bad LVH
  • heart beats billions of times in a life time
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Stress and Muscle

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subconscious muscle tensins ( bracing)

  • tension headaches
  • migraines
  • backaches
  • neck/shoulder aches
  • -Example
  • teeth /jaw clenching
  • sitting on the edge of your seat
  • gripping the steering wheel hard
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Lie detector test

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  • polygraph based on
  • -salvanic skin response
  • HR,BP, BR, BT, voice patterns
    • some individuals have mastered remarkable control over their psychopathology

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