Stress Flashcards
Interdisciplinary field that applies behavioral and medical knowledge to the treatment of disease/promotion of health
Behavioral Medicine
Subfield of psychology that studies how health and illness are influenced by emotions, stress, personality, lifestyle, and other factors
Health Psychology
Process by which people perceive and react to stressors or events they perceive as threatening or challenging
Stress
Positive form of stress that pushes people to achieve or accomplish goals
Eustress
Negative stress that can wear down on the body
Disress
Condition or even that challenges or threatens a person
Stressors
Low intensity stressors that can be external (finding a job) or personal (finding motivation to do homework)
Frustrations
First step which looks at the situation and ask is it revelt or threatening
Primary Appraisal of Stress
Person considers the resources for copying or responding to the stressor
Secondary Appraisal of Stress
Occurs when something dangerous or life threatening occurs and people respond in a way that prepare them to fight or flee
Fight or Flight Response
Hormones that prepares the body to respond to stress
Adrenaline
“the stress hormone” that is secreted to deal with chronic stress
Cotisol
3 stage sequence of bodily reaction to stress: Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion
General Adaptation Syndrome
Leading cause of death in the US, result from clogging the coronary arteries and the reduction in blood and oxygen supply to the heart muscle
Coronary Heart Disease
Term for pattern in a person of competitive, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone
Type A
Term for pattern in a person that is easygoing
Type B
Act of facing and dealing with problems and stressors, can be problemed, emotion, and appraisal focuses
Coping
Scale that measures the life stress using LCU
Social Readjustment Rating Scale
Scale that measures the life stress using LCU
Social Readjustment Rating Scale
Assign a numerical value to the level of stress
Life Changing Units (LCU)
Illness such as hypertensions and headaches that is liked to stress rather than a physical disorder
Psychophysiological Illness
System for electronically recording, amplifying, and tracking information regarding a subtle physiological state
Biofeedback
People often provided support to others and bond with and seek support from others
Tend-and-Befriend
