Lecture 20- Stress

Question 1

What is stress as a stimulus?

Answer 1

this is when stress is referred to as an event that is happening

Question 2

What is stress as a response?

Answer 2

this is when stress is referred to by how we deal with an event

Question 3

What is a stress as a person-situation interaction?

Answer 3

this is a mix of both stress as a stimulus and response, it is about the event and the different ways that people responded to the events

Question 4

What is cognitive appraisal?

Answer 4

cognitive appraisal is the immediate way of assessing the problem

Question 5

What is a physiological response?

Answer 5

the physiological response is a flight or fight response
- SAM
- HPA

Question 6

What is the Sympathetic Adreno-Medullary System (SAM)?

Answer 6

this is the immediate response, which is the activation of your sympathetic neurons that are located mid-way down your spine, this then activates the adrenal glands, and leads to the production or norepinephrine and epinephrine

Question 7

What does the production or norepinephrine and epinephrine cause your body to do?

Answer 7

the production of these hormones result in a change of blood flow (heart rate) as your body is trying to prepare for the response

Question 8

What is the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical System (HPA)?

Answer 8

this is a longer-term process and is the production of cortisol, the anterior pituitary gland in your brain is activated which then a signal to adrenal glands to produce cortisol

Question 9

What is the short- and long-term effects of cortisol?

Answer 9

short term = increase immune function
long term = build up over time
humans are not designed to endure stress over a long time, this is a modern feeling, so cortisol is building up and can become dangerous

Question 10

What is the problem-solving coping strategy?

Answer 10

this is when you would find methods to change the impact of the stressor

Question 11

What is the avoidance coping strategy?

Answer 11

this is when you would do something that takes your mind out of the space and think about or do something completely different

Question 12

What is the emotion-focused coping strategy?

Answer 12

this is finding a blame, overthinking the problem and feeling hopeless about the situation

Question 13

What is the social-support coping strategy?

Answer 13

this is using the people around you to help with your stress
- appraisal support
- belonging support
- tangible support

Question 14

What is apprasial support?

Answer 14

this is being with someone who has good advice and can help solve the problem

Question 15

What is belonging support?

Answer 15

this is simply just being around others and having a sense of community

Question 16

What is tangible support?

Answer 16

this is when others help take care of task that have possibly been neglected due to the stress

Question 17

What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?

Answer 17

this is when you go to someone who will challenge negative thoughts and change and influence the way you think about the problem

Question 18

What is acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)?

Answer 18

this is where a professional will get a person to accept the situation that they are in

Question 19

What is dialectal behaviour therapy (DBT)?

Answer 19

this is where an individual learns to accept certain things, but this doesn’t mean they cannot improve the situation

Question 20

What is phramacotherapy?

Answer 20

addressing chronic issues with therapeutic drugs