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Lesson: Stress And Health Flashcards

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physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging

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Stress

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events that cause a stress reaction

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Stressors

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the effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors

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Distress

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the effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being

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Eustresa

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an unpredictable, large-scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as overwhelming feelings of threat

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Catastrophe

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cause stress by requiring adjustment
– Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS): measures the amount of stress resulting from major life events in a person’s life over a one- year period
– College Undergraduate Stress Scale (CUSS): measures the amount of stress resulting from major life events in a college student’s life over a one-year period

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Major Life Changes

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measures the amount of stress resulting from major life events in a person’s life over a one- year period

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Social readjustment rating scale

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measures the amount of stress resulting from major life events in a college student’s life over a one-year period

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College undergraduate stress scale

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the daily annoyances of everyday life

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Hassles

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: the psychological experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for a person’s behavior that come from an outside source

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Pressure

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the degree of control that the person has over a particular event or situation

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Uncontrollability

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the psychological experience produced by the blocking of a desired goal or fulfillment of a perceived need

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Frustration

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actions meant to harm or destroy

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Aggression

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taking out one’s frustrations on some less threatening or more available target
§ a form of displacement

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Displaced aggression

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leaving the presence of a stressor

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Escape or withdrawal

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psychological experience of being pulled toward or drawn to two or more desires or goals, only one of which may be attained

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Conflict

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person must choose between two desirable goals

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Approach–approach conflict

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person must choose between two undesirable goals

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Avoidance–avoidance conflict

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a person must choose or not choose a goal that has both positive and negative aspects

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Approach–avoidance conflict

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a person must decide between two goals, each possessing both positive and negative aspects

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Double approach avoidance conflict

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Ans that responds to stressful
events

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Sympathetic sys

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restores the body to normal functioning after stress has ceased

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Parasympathetic sys

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the three stages of the body’s physiological adaptation to stress

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General adaptation syndrome

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Gas three stages

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Alarm resistance and exhaustion

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cells, organs, and chemicals of the body that respond to attacks from diseases, infections, and injuries

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Immune system

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the study of the effects of psychological factors on the immune system

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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stress puts people at higher risk for coronary heart disease (CHD)

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Heart disease

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type 2 diabetes is associated with excessive weight gain

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Diabetes

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stress increases malfunction of natural killer (NK) cell

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Cancwr

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how people think about a stressor determines, at least in part, how stressful that stressor will becom

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Cognitive appraisal approach (Lazarus)

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involves estimating the severity of a stressor and classifying it as either a threat or a challenge

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Primary Appraisal

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involves estimating the resources available to the person for coping with the stressor

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Secondary appraisal

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What type of personality is

ambitious
– time conscious
– extremely hardworking
– tends to have high levels of hostility and anger – easily annoyed

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Type A

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Type of personality

relaxed and laid-back
– less driven and competitive than Type A – slow to anger

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Type B

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Type of Personality

pleasant but repressed person
– tends to internalize anger and anxiety – finds expressing emotions difficult
– higher cancer rates

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Type C

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seems to thrive on stress but lacks the anger
and hostility of the Type A personality
– deep sense of commitment to values
– sense of control over their lives
– view problems as challenges to be met and answered
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Hardy Personality

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negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration

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Burnout

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results from the need to change and adapt to the majority culture

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Acculturative stress

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the network of family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others who can offer support, comfort, or aid to a person in need

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Social support system

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actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors

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Coping strategies

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one tries to eliminate the source of a stress or reduce its impact through direct actions

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Problem-focused coping

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one changes the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor

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Emotion-focused coping

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mental exercises meant to refocus attention and achieve a trancelike state of consciousness and relaxation

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Meditation

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person focuses the mind on some repetitive or unchanging stimulus so that the mind can be cleared of disturbing thoughts and the body can experience relaxation

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Concentrative meditation:

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