Stress Flashcards
What is Stress
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
What is coping?
Process to manage situation that are perceived as stressful, can be successfully or unsuccessfully, crucial to maintain well-being
Adaptation
Outcome of coping, ability to survive and/or flourish in spite of stress, depend on coping processes - long term health
What are Stressors?
Any event or set of events that are perceived as challenging, threatening or demanding
True or False: Is Stress response natural, adaptive and protective?
True
Physical and emotional stressors trigger what?
Similar responses magnitude or pattern of reaction may differ
Are Stressors internal or external?
Both
Can stressors be destructive or Good?
Can be both destructive and Good
True or False: Are there individual responses to the same stressor
True
There are two types of physiologic stressors. What are they?
Physical and General
What are “specific” stressor?
Altered body function
What are general stressors?
Stress response
What are some examples of physiologic stressors?
Chemical agents, physical agents, infectious agents, nutritional imbalances, hypoxia, genetic or immune disorders, illness, pain fatigue
Are psychosocial stressors continuos or individualized?
Continuous and include individualized coping mechanism
What are examples of psychosocial stressors?
Stressful or traumatic experiences of family members and friends, horrors of history, fear of aggression or mutilation, rapid chances in the world
What are day to day Stressors?
Traffic, arguments, computer problems, ghost
What are considered life event stressors?
Erik son crisis, birth, marriage, death, permanent disability
Eustress
Positive stress activates stress pathways but includes such things as participationg in sports, going to a spa
What is stress dependent on?
Individual interpretation, life experiences/evens, age of the events, gender, culture beliefs, genetics, values
Negative feedback is what?
Inhibits or reverses changes
True or False: Do you have to have an intact Central Nervous System for homeostasis to occur?
True
What is the Homeostasis mechanism cycle?
Self-regulating, compensatory, several mechanisms, regulated by negative feedback
What is allostasis?
the process by which the body response to stressors in order to regain
What is allostatic load?
The priced the body pays for repeatedly activating the body stress response
How is Allostatic load?
Frequent exposure to stressors, , inability to adapt to repeated stressors, an inability to mount an adequate response or turn off the response
How is the cardiovascular system affected with allostasis?
Promotes adaptation by adjusting HR and BP to sleeping, waking , physical exertion
How is the cardiovascular system affected with allostatic load?
Repeated surges of increased BP due to job stress or the failure to shut off bp surges efficiently accelerates atherosclerosis
What systems are used for normal coping and adaptation ?
CNS, ANS, Endocrine system