Stress & Health Lecture Flashcards
What is stress?
the process of appraising and responding to a threatening or challenging event.
What is a stress reaction?
the physical and emotional responses to the stressor.
What is a stressor?
the object that is creating stress
What is stress appraisal?
Perceive there is a stressful event.
How is a threat appraisal different from a challenge appraisal?
Not able to handle stressor
have enough resources to handle stressor
How can experiencing stress in life be beneficial?
uild resilience (i.e., confidence in overcoming obstacles.
What are the three main types of stressors?
Catastrophes
Significant life changes
Daily hassles and social stress
What is acculturative stress?
culture shock associated with stress and inflammation, but dissipates over time.
How are significant life changes and stress related?
more change in life positively correlates with more stress
Why is young adulthood stressful?
lots of things are changing
What are daily hassles and how do they affect stress and health?
regularly occurring nuisances and they affect stress and health negatively
What are approach and avoidance motives?
given two different choices and having to choose or decide. Approach - approach
Avoidance - avoidance
Approach - avoidance
Who defined the General Adaptation Model?
Hans Selye
What are the phases of the General Adaptation Modeland how do they affect the body?
Phase 1: Alarm reaction
Sympathetic nervous system is suddenly activated and your body is ready for fight or flight.
Phase 2: Resistance
Sympathetic nervous system stays activated, adrenals pump epinephrine and norepinephrine through your blood stream.
Time passes with no relief from the stressor and body’s resources begin to dwindle.
Phase 3: Exhaustion
Body has run out of resources and is susceptible to illness, collapse, and death.
Are our bodies better at dealing with long term or short term stressors?
Short term
What is psychoneuroimmunology?
Branch of Health Psychology that focuses on mind-body interaction.
Define biopsychosocial
Health
How does stress impact health and the immune system?
wounds heal more slowly
more vulnerable to colds
hasten course of disease
Which diseases is stress a risk factor for?
heart disease
Does stress directly make us sick?
no
What is problem-focused coping and how does it differ from emotion-focused coping?
Problem-focused coping is addressing the stressor directly to reduce stress.
Emotion-focused coping is reducing stress by changing our perspective on the stressor.
What is learned helplessness?
when animals or people experience no control over repeated bad events, they often learn helplessness.
What are the two types of locus of control?
Internal locus of control
External locus of control
