Stress Flashcards

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What is Stress

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Changes in your normal balanced stated, associated with changes in physical or social environment , universal phenomenon, real or imagined stressor, produces tension or distress, constructive or destructive

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What is coping?

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Process to manage situation that are perceived as stressful, can be successfully or unsuccessfully, crucial to maintain well-being

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Adaptation

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Outcome of coping, ability to survive and/or flourish in spite of stress, depend on coping processes - long term health

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What are Stressors?

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Any event or set of events that are perceived as challenging, threatening or demanding

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True or False: Is Stress response natural, adaptive and protective?

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True

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Physical and emotional stressors trigger what?

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Similar responses magnitude or pattern of reaction may differ

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Are Stressors internal or external?

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Both

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Can stressors be destructive or Good?

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Can be both destructive and Good

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True or False: Are there individual responses to the same stressor

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True

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There are two types of physiologic stressors. What are they?

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Physical and General

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What are “specific” stressor?

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Altered body function

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What are general stressors?

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Stress response

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What are some examples of physiologic stressors?

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Chemical agents, physical agents, infectious agents, nutritional imbalances, hypoxia, genetic or immune disorders, illness, pain fatigue

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Are psychosocial stressors continuos or individualized?

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Continuous and include individualized coping mechanism

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What are examples of psychosocial stressors?

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Stressful or traumatic experiences of family members and friends, horrors of history, fear of aggression or mutilation, rapid chances in the world

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What are day to day Stressors?

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Traffic, arguments, computer problems, ghost

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What are considered life event stressors?

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Erik son crisis, birth, marriage, death, permanent disability

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Eustress

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Positive stress activates stress pathways but includes such things as participationg in sports, going to a spa

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What is stress dependent on?

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Individual interpretation, life experiences/evens, age of the events, gender, culture beliefs, genetics, values

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Negative feedback is what?

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Inhibits or reverses changes

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True or False: Do you have to have an intact Central Nervous System for homeostasis to occur?

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True

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What is the Homeostasis mechanism cycle?

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Self-regulating, compensatory, several mechanisms, regulated by negative feedback

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What is allostasis?

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the process by which the body response to stressors in order to regain

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What is allostatic load?

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The priced the body pays for repeatedly activating the body stress response

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How is Allostatic load?

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Frequent exposure to stressors, , inability to adapt to repeated stressors, an inability to mount an adequate response or turn off the response

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How is the cardiovascular system affected with allostasis?

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Promotes adaptation by adjusting HR and BP to sleeping, waking , physical exertion

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How is the cardiovascular system affected with allostatic load?

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Repeated surges of increased BP due to job stress or the failure to shut off bp surges efficiently accelerates atherosclerosis

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What systems are used for normal coping and adaptation ?

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CNS, ANS, Endocrine system

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What system allows individuals to respond to stressors differently?

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The limbic system

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What does the parasympathetic system control?

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Relaxation - promotes growth/healing

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What is the goal for the parasympathetic system ?

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restores your body to a normal state

32
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What is a major transmitter for the parasympathetic system?

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Acetylcholine

33
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Once the stress is resolved. What does the parasympathetic system begin doing?

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Pupil constriction, watery secretions of salivary glands, decreased HR, constriction of the bronchioles, increased digestive function, increased insulin secretion promotion of the release of urine return.

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What does the Sympathetic system do for Stress?

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Rapid response for preparation for intense physical activity in case of emergency

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What two major hormones are released from the sympathetic system?

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Epinephrine and norepinephrine

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What system releases hormones from one gland and travels through the bloodstream to another gland and trigger secondary gland to release certain hormones?

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Endocrine system

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There are two types of stress response for Local Adaptation syndrome. What are they?

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Reflex pain response and inflammatory response

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LAS

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Local Adaptation Syndrome

39
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What are the 3 different General adaptation syndrome?

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Alarm reaction
Stage Resistance
Stage Exhaustion

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Stage 1 Alarm Reaction

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Alerts the body defenses against the stressor 1 min - 24 hours fight or flight

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Stage 2 Resistance

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Body attempts to cope with the stressor adapts, if not adaptation fails

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Stage 3 Exahustaion

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Adaptation has overcome the stressor, body rests and returns to normal or stress effects have spread to the whole body= Death

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Shock Phase

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Hormone levels rise, body prepares to react

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Counter-Shock phases:

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body returns to normal

45
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HPA

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Hypothalamus-pituitary=adrenal gland

46
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Chronic Stress

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Over expression of the stress mediators leads to cellular damage

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What are examples of chronic stress?

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Depression, cardiac disease, HIV/AIDS, respiratory problems, infections, autoimmune and poor wound healing, and cancers

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What are some psychological homeostasis that need to be maintain?

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love and belonging
safety and security
self-esteem

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Anxiety

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Feeling of apprehension - anticipate danger - deal with the threat

50
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Mild Anxiety

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Positive effect - motivational - facilitates problem solving - more alert. restlessness and sleep disturbance

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Moderate Anxiety

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Narrow perceptions - focus on concerns muscle tension, “butterflies” increase pulse/resp

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Severe Anxiety

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Detailed orientated - focus on getting relief. Distracted, decrease learning, interferes with life, fearful, headache nausea, tachycardia, hyperventilation

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Panic Anxiety

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Experience dread - loss of control - unable to concentrate learn

54
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Unconscious management of stress?

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Coping mechanisms

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How is coping mechanisms learned?

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May be from past experiences, family expectations

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What are some examples of coping mechanisms?

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Crying, laughing, sleeping, cursing, physical activity exercise, smoking, drinking, lack of eye contact, withdrawal, limiting relationships to those with similar values and interests

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What are task-oriented reaction to stress?

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Attack behavior
withdrawal behavior
compromise behavior

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Compensation

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The attempt to achieve respect or recognition in one activity as a substitute for inability to achieve in another endeavor

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Denial

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Refusing to believe or accept something sit is but rather as one wishes it to be

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Displacement

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Transferring emotion away from the person or situation that incited the emotions to an inappropriate person or object

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Introjection

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Taking into one’s personality the characteristics of another

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Projection

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Attributing ones own thoughts emotions, characteristics, or motives to another

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rationalization

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Concealing the motive for behavior by going some socially acceptable reason for the action

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Regression

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Return to behaviors more appropriate to an earlier Stage of development

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Repression

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Immersing Something in the subconscious or unconscious level of thought

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Sublimation

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Release of libido unsocially acceptable behavior rather than using it to obtain sexual gratification

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Suppression

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Consciously dismissing something from the mind and thoughts

68
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Developmental stress

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Occurs when person progresses through stages of growth and development

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Situation stress

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Does not occur in predictable patterns, influenced by developmental levels

70
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Is Reflexive response for newborns whole body or part of the body?

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Whole Body

71
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What subjective data would be used to assess someone who is stressed?

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Physiologic stress, Psychologic stress, Environmental stress, sociocultural stress,

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What objective data would be used to assess someone who is stress?

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Cardiovascular system, Respiratory system, Gastrointestinal system, musculoskeletal system integumentary system.