PYS101 L13 Key Terms Ch 15 Flashcards
Uncontrollable experiences, events, or situations that threaten or disrupt a person’s well being.
Stressors
An effort to accept reality by changing your own attitudes, goals, or emotions; a “learn to live with it” philosophy.
Secondary control
The series of psychological responses to stressors.
Alarm/resistance/exhaustion phases of stress
A general expectation about whether the results of your actions are under your own control (internal locus) or beyond your control (external locus).
Locus of control (internal versus external)
Identify the problem and learn about it. Knowledge about the problem confers some control.
Problem-focused coping
Learning to alternately tense and relax muscles from toes to head, lowering blood pressure and stress hormones.
Progressive relaxation
An effort to modify reality by changing other people, the situation, or events; a “fighting back” philosophy.
Primary control
Hormones that are produced by the adrenal glands and that are involved in emotion and stress.
Adrenal hormones
The process of managing or maintaining some control of stressful situations.
Coping
Drawing on the help of others as a coping strategy.
Social support
A hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex that elevates blood sugar and protects the body’s tissue from inflammation in case of injury.
Cortisol
According to Hans Selye, a series of physiological responses to stressors that occur in three phases: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
General adaptation syndrome
The study of biological, social, and cultural factors that influence health and illness.
Health psychology
Concentrate on the emotions that the problem has caused in order to come to terms with it, make sense of it, and decide what to do about it.
Emotion-focused coping
