Quiz #4 Flashcards
stress is subjective T or F
T - going to be different level of stress
ex car crash: one will worry about insurance, car damage
Appraisal of Stressors: Primary App. (3)
what you think about 1st: Harm, Threat, Challenge
Harm:
assessment of damage already been done by event: how bad is my car
Threat:
assessment of possible future damage: insurance rates will increase medical bills
Challenge:
potential to overcom an event: I can get a new car
Secondary appraisal 2
assessing coping abilities & resources
Assessing coping abilities
I can manage my own temper when taking with insurance
Resources
do I have extra money
Person-envio fit
idea that that stress tied to what your good at decreases stess: good at time managment so when ever there is t.m situations I wont be as stressed
Fight or flight response challenge
not applicable to all situations: can’t flee boss and can’t fight boss
Seyles - General Adaptation Syndrome (3)
alarm, resistance, exauhastion
resistance
period time of coping
exauhstion:
depletes physiological resources to cope (body gets sick)
GAS example
(a- car crash
r-thinking about how you can move forward
e-body feels like it can’t function anymore
critiiscims of GAS
- assumes exaahuation is the real problem because it depletes but really its resistance because of its effort to cope
- limited inclusion of psycho9logical factors
-assumes responses to stress are the same
Tend and Befriend
in response to stress you seek affiliation: prepare to be others going through the same thing
4 - Stress and illness
- direct effect on physiology (inc. heart rate)
- tend to have bad health behaviors (eating sweets)
- affect ability to cope with stress (don’t make good use of our social resources because we can be unpleasant wihen stressed
- when stressed may not seek health care
sympathetic activation:
when stressed it starts puomning your adrenal gland causing to ultipy cortisol levels and cause inflammation
HPA activation
hypothalamic, pituitary adrenocatical axis
pituitary adrenocatical axis
causes secretion of cortisol (stores carbs to use it when we need energy to run fro a bear)
Effects of long-term activation
-improper sleep
- not functioning proprly
- some hormones stay activated (epinephrine)
- immune system func stop
-cardiac func
-psych disorder
- increase storage of belly fat
individual differences of stress reactions tivivty
some people react diffrent to stress because pf
- gentics
-vhildhood
physiological recovery
how fast can you reviver
Allostasis
psychological systems within reflucuate to meet demands
Dimensions of stress (what causes stress)
- negative events
-uncontrollable events
-ambigious events
-overload
which stressors
Negative events
something bad happens to you or someone else (bad grades)
Uncontrollable events
I know what the problem is I don’t have the resources for it ( fire dept doesn’t know when the alarm will go off)
Ambiguous events
I have resources for the problem but I don’t know the issue (fluid under car I don’t know if its AC or something more major)
Overload
Too much to do not enough time.
Which Stessors
The more tied to your life it is the more stressful it is (graduating, finding a job) `