Test #3 Flashcards
Stress
Is process by which we perceive and respond to certain events called stressors that we appraise as threatening or challenging
Catastrophes
Unpleasant large scale events
Significant life changes
Personal life transitions
Daily hassles and social stress
Day to day challenges
General adaption syndrome
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
Tend and befriend
Nurturing and banding together
Psychoneuroimmunologists
Study mind-body interactions including stress related physical illness (stress induced headaches)
Stress and cancer
Stress doesn’t create cancer cells but if you are stressed and don’t have healthy immune system cancer cells can’t be destroyed
What play a role in heart disease?
Stress and personality
Type A personality
Competitive hard driven impatient verbally aggressive angry more likely to have a heart attack
Type B
Easy going relaxed less likely to have heart problems
Type D
People who surprises negative emotions to avoid social disapproval
Catharsis
The idea of releasing aggressive energy relieves aggressive urge
Coping
Reduced stress using emotional , cognitive or behavioral methods
Problem focused coping
Attempting to reduce stress directly -by changing the stressor or the way we interact that stressor
Emotion-focused coping
Attempting to reduce stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction
External locus of control
That chance or outside forces control their fate
Internal locus of control
Believe they are in control of their own destiny
Pessimists
Expects things to go badly
Optimism
Expect to have control
Aerobic exercise
Sustained activity that increases heart and lung fitness may also reduce anxiety or depression
Mindfulness meditation
Relaxing and silently attending to your inner state without judging it
Positive psychology
Scientific study of human functioning with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive
Three pillars of positive psychology
Positive well being
Positive character
Positive groups and communities