Stress Health and LifeStyle Flashcards

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Stimulus based definitions

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Something that disrupts your peace
Freaking out about something
Stress is how a person reacts to a stimulus

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Response based definitions

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Stress are the physiological experiences when dealing
with something
Bodily response that motivates you

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FIght or flight

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Sympathetic NS
- Epinephrine / norepinephrine
- pupils , heart rate increases, breathing increases, perspire, blood vessels constrict
Maintains homeostasis - optimal physiology for fight/flight

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The Sympathetic Adrenal Medullary System
(SAM)

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Stimulus -Thalamus - hypothalamus - adrenal gland (on kidney)

Adrenal gland
Middle part (medulla)
Secretes epinephrine (and norepinephrine)
Sympathetic arousal

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Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis
(HPA)

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responsible for the neuroendocrine adaptation component of the stress response

Hypothalamic
Corticotropin releasing factor
Pituitary
Adrenocorticotropic H
Adrenal

Hypothalamic, Pituitary and Adrenal Axisis sent to the cortex (of adrenal gland)

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Cortisol (HPA)

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(main stress hormone - glucocorticoid)
+ blood sugar
Regulate blood pressure
Redirects blood flow
Suppresses immune function

slows down and suppresses production of lymphocytes (white blood cells)
Makes us more susceptible to colds and other sicknesses
Increases fat in the blood system

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Hypothalamus

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Adrenal medulla (SAME TIME) - via nervous system
- adrenaline

Pituitary glas (SAME TIME) - via blood stream - slower - endocrine system
- Adrenal cortex
- Cortisol

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Arothema

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Stress increases blood pressure
Hypertension
50% increase in having a heart attack

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Chromosomes (response based definitions0

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To repair split and make new ones
Tips of chromosomes - nonsense DNA
When split too much nonsense DNA is used up and you start cutting at important DNA
Increased aging, difficult repair work
Called telomeres
More stress = increased cortisol(inhibits telomerase = shorter telomeres
Telomerase builds back up

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Lazarus’s appraisal model

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Primary appraisal
Does this matter to me
1 YES - secondary appraisal
2 NO - no stress response

Secondair appraisal
Can i cope with it
1 YES - challenge
2 NO - stress

Stress - vasoconstriction (increased cardiac output)
Challenge - vasodialation(“”)

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xStress definition

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Individual perceives and responds to events that they appraise as overwhelming or threatening to their well-being

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Life changes

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Social readjustment rating scale
Death of a close family member, death of a close friend, divorce between parents, jail term, major personal injury or illness, Marrige, being fired froma jo, failing important course, chang ein health of family member, pregnancy

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Traumatic Life events

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PTSD

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Everyday stressors

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Day to day annoyances
Most significant impact of health
Ex travel time to work

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Stress managment

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Coping Styles
Control
Social Supoort
Exersize
Meditation

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Emotion Focused managment

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Attempt to reduce negative emotion
Positive Comparison: Im not as bad off as x
Seeking Positives: I get to see and incredible thing
Reappraisal: Reframing the stressor
Attempts to reduce negative emotions
Adresses the symptom not the cause

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Emotion VS problem focused

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Pop Quiz - Emotion focused coping (not control)
Midterm - Problem FOcused coping (some control)

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Problem FOcused coping

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Addresses root cause of the stress not symptom

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Obvjective measured of control vs
Subjective measures of control

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Pereived taking control

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Learned Helplessness:

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Believe you lack control even when positive aspects come your way or theres a clear solution
(because of histories with no solution)

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Good social support network

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helps with stress, school, pain experience (ex men who expressed emotions healed faster), live longer, better quality sleep