Stress and Health

Question 1

Stress

Answer 1

The physical and psychological response to internal or external stressors

Question 2

Stressor

Answer 2

specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten the person’s well-being

Question 3

Health Psychology

Answer 3

The subfield of psychology concerned with the ways psychological factors influence the causes and treatments of physical illness and maintenance of health

Question 4

Chronic Stressors

Answer 4

sources of stress that occur continuously or repeatedly

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Fight-or-flight-response

Answer 5

an emotional and physiological reaction to an emergency that increases readiness for action

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General Adaption Syndrome (GAS)

Answer 6

a three-stage physiological response that appears regardless of the stressor that is encountered; GAS is non-specific and does not vary across stressors

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Repressive Coping

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avoiding situations or thoughts that are reminders of a stressor and maintaining an artificially positive viewpoint

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Rational Coping

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involves facing the stressor and working to overcome it; involves three steps

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Reframing

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finding a new or creative way to think about a stressor that reduces its threat

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Stress Inoculation Training (SIT)

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a therapy that helps people to cope with stressful situations by developing positive ways to think about the situation

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Relaxation Therapy

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a technique for reducing tension by consciously relaxing muscles of the body

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Biofeedback

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the use of an external monitoring device to obtain information about a bodily function and possibly gain control over that function

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Social Support

Answer 13

aid gained through interacting with others

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Self-regualtion

Answer 14

the exercise of voluntary control over the self to bring the self into line with preferred standards; willpower