Taking Care Of One's Health Flashcards
It refers to events that are perceived as challenging, damaging or threatening to one’s physical or psychological well-being.
Stress
Stressful events that are challenging, damaging or threatening to one’s physical or psychological well-being.
Stressors
The way people respond to stressors/stress is called __________.
Stress response
_______ occurs when people experience positive events but requires them to adjust.
Eustress
__________ occurs when people experience negative events and make great deal of demands on them.
Distress
Four types of conflict:
Approach-approach conflict
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Approach-avoidance conflict
Multiple conflict
Conflict:
When a person needs to choose between two options that are both attractive
Approach-approach conflict
Conflict:
Occurs when a person needs to choose between options that he or she finds unpleasant.
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Conflict:
Occurs when a person needs to choose between options that have both positive and negative consequences.
Approach-avoidance conflict
Conflict:
________ occurs when there are more than two options.
Multiple conflict
To deal with frustrations, conflicts and stress, people sometimes use unconscious strategies called _____________ to cope with the pain and deal with anxiety.
Defense mechanisms
Done when the person exhibits behaviors that stand apart from the norms of the society and avoids most
responsibilities of a good citizen.
Beatnik Reaction
Aggressive reactions of a person such as destroying things or harming another person.
Displacement
When a person refuses to accept a painful reality or truth.
Denial
Imitating the characteristics of a person he or she admires to deal with his or
her insecurities.
Identification
Avoiding negative emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects of one’s
life.
Intellectualization
Attributing one’s weaknesses or shortcomings to someone else.
Projection
Making up plausible explanations or excuses to cover up negative feelings such as guilt.
Rationalization
Acting opposite to what the person truly feels.
Reaction formation
A person reverts to an earlier psychosexual stage and begins to behave like a child.
Regression
Pushing unacceptable impulses or urges into the unconscious.
Repression
He discovered stress in 1935 as a syndrome occurring in laboratory rats.
Hans Selye
During the __________ our body sends signals that something isn’t right
Alarm Stage
Stage where our physical, psychological and emotional state find ways to fight back those signals to have a renewed strength and go back to our homeostasis.
Resistance Stage
The model ____________ was proposed by ____________ and it explained the mental processes which influence the stressors.
Theory of Cognitive Appraisal;
Lazarus and Folkman’s in 1984
Two types or stages in appraisal:
Primary and Secondary appraisal
In the stage of ___________, an individual tends to ask questions like, “What does
this stressor and/or situation mean? “how can it influence me?”
Primary appraisal
__________ compares to other stages actually happens simultaneously with the primary appraisal. It involve feelings related to dealing with the stressor or the stress it produces.
Secondary appraisal
According to John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (2020) we can call ourselves __________ as these are not passive and helpless, they look for ways to take control of their lives.
Copers
Psychologists __________ and _________ scientifically defined coping as the sum of cognitive and behavioral efforts, which are constantly changing, that aim to handle particular demands, whether internal or external, that are viewed as taxing or demanding.
Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman
_______ is an activity we do to seek and apply solutions to stressful situations or problems that emerge because of our stressors.
Coping
___________ wherein the coping response is aimed at preventing a possible encounter with a future stressor.
Proactive coping
Types of Coping Strategies:
Problem-focused coping strategies
Emotion-focused coping strategies
True or False:
Problem-focused coping centers around the source of your stress, so the first step is to identify the problem.
True
True or false:
Emotion-focused coping strategies aim to reduce and manage the intensity of the negative and distressing emotions that a stressful situation has caused rather than solving the problematic situation itself.
True
This is designed precisely to help the executive discern, diagnose, and understand his different sources of stress, to develop his skills, and to enlarge his perspectives towards the management of his own lifestyle.
Stress Management Program
SMP was born out of the scientific findings and empirical data on human personality development gathered from numerous experiments and stress management seminars conducted by ___________ and her colleagues.
Ms. Maraya Chebat
_________ occurs when a person needs to choose between two or many options.
Conflict
He explained his stress model based on physiology and psychobiology as General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
Hans Selye
Stage:
Upon encountering a stressor, body reacts with “fight-or-flight” response and
sympathetic nervous system is activated.
Stage 1: Alarm
Stage:
- Hormones such as cortisol and adrenalin released into the bloodstream to meet the
threat or danger.
Stage 1: Alarm
Stage:
- The body’s resources now mobilized.
Stage 1: Alarm
Stage:
Blood glucose levels remain high, cortisol and adrenalin continue to circulate at elevated levels, but outward appearance of organism seems normal.
Stage 2: Resistance
Stage:
- Increase HR, BP, breathing
- Body remains on red alert.
Stage 2: Resistance
Stage:
If stressor continues beyond body’s capacity, organism exhausts resources and
becomes susceptible to disease and death.
Stage 3: Exhaustion
He suggests that the way people think about and appraise a stressor is a major factor in how stressful that particular stressor becomes.
Richard Lazarus
An assessment of an emotional situation wherein a person evaluates how the event will affect them, interprets a various aspects of the event, arrives at a response based on the interpretation.
Cognitive Appraisal
The evaluation of how the event or
interaction will affect you personally. Classifies whether the stressor or the situation is a threat, a
challenge or a harm-loss.
Primary Appraisal
Evaluate the factors and decide
how you’re going to respond. It involves those feelings related to dealing with the stressor or the stress it produces.
Secondary Appraisal
According to the _______________, among those most contributing factors to resilience is having caring and supportive relationships that create love and trust.
American Psychological Association
True or False:
People who are high in self-compassion treat themselves with kindness, care and understanding when they experience stressful events or situations.
True
True or False:
Self-compassion has shown to reduce anxiety, stress, exhaustion and depression (Neff, 2012).
True
The primary stress hormone that increases sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream.
Cortisol
Stress hormone that increases your heart rate, elevates your blood pressure and boosts energy supplies.
Adrenaline or epinephrine
Where is the adrenal gland is located?
On top of each kidney
