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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

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Disorder where the immune system gradually weakens and eventually becomes disabled by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

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Acute Stressors

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Events of stress that have a fairly short duration or an end point

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Approach-Approach Conflict

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Having to make a choice between two attractive options

ie. pizza or pasta?

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Approach-Avoidance Conflict

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Having to make a choice between two options that have positive and negative aspects

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Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict

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Having to make a choice between to unappealing options

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Biopsychosocial model

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Physical illness is influenced by biological, psychosocial and sociocultural factors

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Burnout

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Physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism and lowered sense of self-efficacy caused by chronic stress

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Aggression

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Behaviour intended to hurt someone physically or verbally

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Catastrophic Thinking

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  • Unrealistically negative view of how stress is going to affect an individual
  • Created by Albert Ellis
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Catharsis

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Release of pent-up emotions

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Chronic Stressors

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Stressful events that seem to persist for a long time and have no end point in sight

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Conflict

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Two or more motives compete for gratification

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Constructive Coping

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  • Healthy coping methods
  • Confronting problems in a task-relevant, action-oriented way
  • Realistically appraising the stress
  • Organize and regulate emotional distress that comes with stress
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Coping

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Efforts to reduce or tolerate stress

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Defense Mechanisms

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  • Created by Freud
  • Generally unhealthy coping strategies
  • Work on self-deception
  • Denial, fantasy, isolation, undoing, overcompensation etc.
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Fight-or-Flight Response

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  • Sympathetic subdivision of the Autonomic Nervous System

- Physiological response to a seemingly threatening situation

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Frustration

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Occurs when a goal cannot be met

ie. you were late for work, various failures and losses

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General Adaption Syndrome

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  • Created by Hans Selye
  • The body’s reaction to stress broken up into three stages:
  • Alarm Stage: first notice of the threat. Fight-or-Flight kicks in
  • Resistance Stage: in the face of prolonged stress, the body’s physiological arousals are higher than normal but tend to average out as the organism becomes accustomed to the stress
  • Exhaustion Stage: the body’s resources for fighting stress have been depleted, leading to burnout
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Health Psychology

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Psychosocial factors influence the maintenance of health and prevention and recovery from illness

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Immune Response

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Body’s protective response to fight foreign bacteria

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Internet Addiction

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  • Spending an absurd amount of time online followed with an inability to control internet usage
  • Interferes with their work, school, sleep schedules etc.
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Learned Helplessness

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  • Behaviour produced by repeated exposure to unfortunate and stressful events
  • Led to believe that life is out of control, they cannot do anything to help their situation
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Optimism

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  • Generally positive attitude towards life

- Optimists deal with stress in more productive ways, have better health and a better immune system

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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Psychological disturbance caused by a traumatic event

ie. rape, witnessing a death, etc.

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Pressure
- Expectations to act a certain way | - Pressure to perform, pressure to conform
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Primary Appraisal
- Richard Lazarus - Evaluation of an event where it is either: - Irrelevant - Relevant but not threatening - Relevant and threatening = stressful
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Psychosomatic Diseases
- Diseases that were said to be caused by stress and other psychological factors ie. High blood pressure, eczema, peptic ulcers, asthma etc.
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Rational-Emotive Therapy
- Albert Ellis - Alters thinking patterns to reduce and reverse irrational thinking and destructive emotions - A-B-C Sequence: - A: activating event - B: belief system: appraisal of the event - C: consequence: emotions that come from the appraisal
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Resilience
Successful adaptation to significant stress or traumatic events
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Secondary Appraisal
- Richard Lazarus | - Evaluation of options for coping with and handling stress
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Social Support
- Comfort from one's social circle - Different cultures prefer different types of social support - Explicit: overt concern from peers - Implicit: comfort from knowing one has people to rely on
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Stress
- Situations that threaten or seem to threaten one's well-being ie. security, self-esteem, safety etc. - First pathway: Hypothalamus activates sympathetic division of the ANS - Stimulates adrenal medulla and releases catecholamines which produce the fight-or-flight response - Second pathway: Hypothalamus sends signals to the pituitary which secretes ACTH - Stimulates adrenal cortex which releases corticosteroids that increase energy and decrease inflammation
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Type A Personality
- Competitive, impatient and hostile personality - Intense reactions to stress lead to more physiological arousal and therefore more illnesses - May experience earlier career success, which can lead to more stressors that can contribute to coronary risks - Anger and stress may trigger chronic inflammation which increases the risk for coronary diseases
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Type B Personality
Relaxed, patient and easygoing personality
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Richard Lazarus
- Believes small stressors can add up and cause issues in people's lives - Primary and secondary appraisal
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Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe
- Theorized stress may make people more susceptible to illness - Social Readjustment Rating Scale - Life changes (positive or negative) can cause stress because readjustment can be tough
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Life Changes
Any change to one's daily life ie. buying a car, getting married, becoming a widow
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Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)
- Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe - Assigns a "stress value" to 43 major events - The higher the score, the more vulnerable one is to physical illness and psychological issues
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Barbara Fredrickson
- Broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions - Believed positive emotions can lead to more social support and healthier coping strategies as well as reversal of negative effects left by unpleasant emotions during a time of stress
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Walter Cannon
Developed fight-or-flight response
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Shelley Taylor
- Theorized fighting or fleeing was maladaptive for females who had young to take care of - "Tend and befriend" is more adaptive - Believes "positive illusions" are good for us, as mentally healthy people tend to have a higher self-image and depressed people tend to have a more realistic self-image - Studied cultural differences in the type of social support one seeks
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Hans Selye
- Defined stress - General Adaptation Syndrome - Stress reactions are nonspecific, and can apply to multiple stressors
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Albert Ellis
- A-B-C Sequence - Catastrophic Thinking - Rational Emotive Therapy
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Roy Baumeister
- Theorizes that extremely unrealistic appraisals or distortions are often hurtful, but small bends to the truth can be beneficial - Pressure to perform makes people self-conscious and it interrupts their attention. causing them to "choke" or "crack"
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Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman
- Studied Type A and Type B personalities - Theorized that Type A's tend to be more driven and thus find earlier career success and therefore more stress - Their intense reactions to stress make the more vulnerable to certain illnesses
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Janice Kiecolt-Glaser
- Linked stress to suppressed immune activity - Studied university students blood samples; one base sample and one "high stress" sample - The "high stress" sample contained a lowered level of immune activity
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M. Robin DiMatteo
- Explained why people delay medical visits - Misinterpret or underestimate the significance of their symptoms - Worry about seeming silly if their problems turn out to be nothing - Worry about "bothering" their physician - Don't want to disrupt their life or plans - Waste time on small things
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Robert R. McCrae
Found that 40% of his test subjects use humour as a coping mechanism for stress
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Neal Miller
- Investigated three types of conflict - Approach-approach, avoidance-avoidance and approach-avoidance - Found that both humans and rats will struggle and vacillate (go back and forth) between options regarding approach-avoidance conflict

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