Stress And Health Flashcards
Immune system
The body natural defense system
Against infection
Stress
A person’s reaction to his or her inability to cope with certain tense or event situation
Stressor
A stress/producing event or situation
Stress reaction
The body’s response to stressor
Distress
Stress that stands for acute anxiety or pressure
Eustress
Positive stress, which results from motivating strivings and challenges
Conflict situation
When a person must choose between two or more options button to result from opposing motives
Cognitive appraisal
The interpretation of an event that helps determine its stress impact
the coping mechanism in which the person decides
That the event is not really a stressor
Denial
Intellectualization
A coping mechanism in which the person analyzes
A situation from an emotionally detached view point
Progressive relaxation
Lying down comfortably and tensing and releasing the tension
In each major muscle group in turn
Biofeedback
The process of learning to control bodily states by monitoring
The states to be controlled
Autonomy
Ability to take care of oneself and make one decision
Developmental friendship
Friends force one another to re-examine their basic assumptions and perhaps adopt new ideas and beliefs
Resynthesis
Come binding old ideas with new ones and we organizing feelings in order to renew one’s identity
