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Taking Care Of One's Health Flashcards

1
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It refers to events that are perceived as challenging, damaging or threatening to one’s physical or psychological well-being.

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Stress

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Stressful events that are challenging, damaging or threatening to one’s physical or psychological well-being.

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Stressors

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The way people respond to stressors/stress is called __________.

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Stress response

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_______ occurs when people experience positive events but requires them to adjust.

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Eustress

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__________ occurs when people experience negative events and make great deal of demands on them.

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Distress

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Four types of conflict:

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Approach-approach conflict
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Approach-avoidance conflict
Multiple conflict

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Conflict:
When a person needs to choose between two options that are both attractive

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Approach-approach conflict

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Conflict:
Occurs when a person needs to choose between options that he or she finds unpleasant.

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Avoidance-avoidance conflict

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Conflict:
Occurs when a person needs to choose between options that have both positive and negative consequences.

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Approach-avoidance conflict

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Conflict:
________ occurs when there are more than two options.

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Multiple conflict

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To deal with frustrations, conflicts and stress, people sometimes use unconscious strategies called _____________ to cope with the pain and deal with anxiety.

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Defense mechanisms

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Done when the person exhibits behaviors that stand apart from the norms of the society and avoids most
responsibilities of a good citizen.

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Beatnik Reaction

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Aggressive reactions of a person such as destroying things or harming another person.

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Displacement

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When a person refuses to accept a painful reality or truth.

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Denial

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Imitating the characteristics of a person he or she admires to deal with his or
her insecurities.

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Identification

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Avoiding negative emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects of one’s
life.

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Intellectualization

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Attributing one’s weaknesses or shortcomings to someone else.

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Projection

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Making up plausible explanations or excuses to cover up negative feelings such as guilt.

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Rationalization

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Acting opposite to what the person truly feels.

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Reaction formation

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A person reverts to an earlier psychosexual stage and begins to behave like a child.

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Regression

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Pushing unacceptable impulses or urges into the unconscious.

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Repression

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22
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He discovered stress in 1935 as a syndrome occurring in laboratory rats.

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Hans Selye

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23
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During the __________ our body sends signals that something isn’t right

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Alarm Stage

24
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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.

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Resistance Stage

25
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The model ____________ was proposed by ____________ and it explained the mental processes which influence the stressors.

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Theory of Cognitive Appraisal;
Lazarus and Folkman’s in 1984

26
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Two types or stages in appraisal:

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Primary and Secondary appraisal

27
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In the stage of ___________, an individual tends to ask questions like, “What does
this stressor and/or situation mean? “how can it influence me?”

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Primary appraisal

28
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__________ 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.

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Secondary appraisal

29
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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.

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Copers

30
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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.

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Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman

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_______ is an activity we do to seek and apply solutions to stressful situations or problems that emerge because of our stressors.

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Coping

32
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___________ wherein the coping response is aimed at preventing a possible encounter with a future stressor.

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Proactive coping

33
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Types of Coping Strategies:

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Problem-focused coping strategies
Emotion-focused coping strategies

34
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True or False:
Problem-focused coping centers around the source of your stress, so the first step is to identify the problem.

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True

35
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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.

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True

36
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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.

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Stress Management Program

37
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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.

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Ms. Maraya Chebat

38
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_________ occurs when a person needs to choose between two or many options.

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Conflict

39
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He explained his stress model based on physiology and psychobiology as General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

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Hans Selye

40
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Stage:
Upon encountering a stressor, body reacts with “fight-or-flight” response and
sympathetic nervous system is activated.

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Stage 1: Alarm

41
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Stage:
- Hormones such as cortisol and adrenalin released into the bloodstream to meet the
threat or danger.

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Stage 1: Alarm

42
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Stage:
- The body’s resources now mobilized.

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Stage 1: Alarm

43
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Stage:
Blood glucose levels remain high, cortisol and adrenalin continue to circulate at elevated levels, but outward appearance of organism seems normal.

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Stage 2: Resistance

44
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Stage:
- Increase HR, BP, breathing
- Body remains on red alert.

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Stage 2: Resistance

45
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Stage:
If stressor continues beyond body’s capacity, organism exhausts resources and
becomes susceptible to disease and death.

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Stage 3: Exhaustion

46
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He suggests that the way people think about and appraise a stressor is a major factor in how stressful that particular stressor becomes.

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Richard Lazarus

47
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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.

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Cognitive Appraisal

48
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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.

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Primary Appraisal

49
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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.

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Secondary Appraisal

50
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According to the _______________, among those most contributing factors to resilience is having caring and supportive relationships that create love and trust.

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American Psychological Association

51
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True or False:
People who are high in self-compassion treat themselves with kindness, care and understanding when they experience stressful events or situations.

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True

52
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True or False:
Self-compassion has shown to reduce anxiety, stress, exhaustion and depression (Neff, 2012).

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True

53
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The primary stress hormone that increases sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream.

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Cortisol

54
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Stress hormone that increases your heart rate, elevates your blood pressure and boosts energy supplies.

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Adrenaline or epinephrine

55
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Where is the adrenal gland is located?

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On top of each kidney

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