Stress & Health

Question 1

Perceived control over stressful events

Answer 1

-more stressful when there is no way to deal with challenge

Question 2

Stress reactions

Answer 2

• fight or flight: activates ACTH to release cortisol

- general adaptation syndrome

Question 3

General adaptation syndrome

Answer 3

• 3 stage psychological process that appears regardless of the stressor
• nonspecific
  1) alarm phase-flight or flight response
  2) resistance phase-body adapts to arousal
  3) exhaustion phase-resistance collapses

Question 4

Stress interpretation

Answer 4

• primary appraisal: interpretation of a stressful stimulus

- secondary appraisal: determining whether you can handle the stress or not

Question 5

PTSD

Answer 5

-chronic trauma

Question 6

Burnout

Answer 6

Physical exhaustion

Question 7

Stress management

Answer 7

Manage mind
-repressive coping 
-rational coping
-reframing
-stress inoculation training 
Manage body
-relaxation 
-biofeedback
-exercise 
Manage situation
-social support
-humor

Question 8

Repressive coping

Answer 8

• avoiding situations
• retaining artificially positive viewpoint
• ie when people are going to suffer a heart attack, they are less likely to complain about heart pain

Question 9

Rational coping

Answer 9

• facing stressor ad working to overcome it
• 3 steps:
  1) acceptance
  2) exposure
  3) understanding

Question 10

Reframing

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Stress inoculation training

Answer 11

-develop positive ways to think about situation

Question 12

Biofeedback

Answer 12

-external monitoring device to get info about bodily function and gain control over that function

Question 13

Somatoform disorders

Answer 13

Opposite of denial; excessive sensitivity to illness

• psychosomatic illness: interaction btwn mind and body that produces illness
• disorder: symptoms not fully explained by medical condition

Question 14

Hypochondriasis

Question 15

Somatization disorder

Answer 15

-combo of multiple physical complaints that have no medical explanation

Question 16

Conversion disorder

Answer 16

• apparently debilitating physical symptoms that appear to be voluntary
• person experiences them as involuntary
• ie seizure, blindness, deafness, paralysis; no neural basis for diagnosis

Question 17

Self regulation

Answer 17

-exercise voluntary control over the self to bring self in line with preferred standards