UNIT 2: Stress Management Flashcards
What is Stress?
The collective physiological and emotional responses to any stimulus that disturbs an individual’s homeostasis
Stress is determined by the balance between perceived demands of the environment and the individual’s resources to meet those demands
What is known as the “Unstressed” State?
homeostasis = a balanced and stable environment
What is a Stressor?
any physical or psychological event/condition that produces stress
Moves away from homeostasis
What is a Stress response?
the physiological changes associated with stress
What makes things stressful?
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- Novelty
- Unpredictability
- Threat to ego
- Sense of loss of control
What are Top Stressors in the lives of College Students?
- The Future: job after school
- Money/finances (cost of education/loans)
- Academia (grades)
- Too many things to do
- Lack of time for tasks
What are Environmental Stressors?
– Climate, noise, pollution, crowding, time of day
What are Physiological Stressors?
external or internal stimuli that disrupt the body’s homeostasis, triggering a physiological response aimed at restoring balance and adaptation to the stressor
Training, medications, caffeine, injuries, disease, nutritional status
What are Emotional stressors?
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Major stressors: those that create major turmoil and usually require major adjustment and time implement the changes
Minor stressors: those that are short term and/or less severe
What is Acute Stress?
short-term, single event
flight or flight response
What is Episodic Stress?
series of events (transient)
What is Chronic Stress?
long-term, always present
What are terms for positive and negative stress?
Eustress = stress triggered by a pleasant stressor
Distress = stress triggered by an unpleasant stressor
What are characteristics of Hans Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome? (1936)
Proposed 3 phase to chronic stress:
– Alarm -> prepare for ‘flight / fright’ - Release Hormones
– Resistance -> resistance to stress, improved coping
– Exhaustion -> inability to cope, life-threatning physiological exhaustion
Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome Visual
Hoe does Stress/Emotional Arousal affect performance?
Symptoms of Excess Stress
What Two systems are responsible for physical response to stressors?
the Nervous System and the
Endocrine System
What is the Autonomic nervous system?
What are its two divisons?
- Not under conscious supervision
- Controls heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, digestion, and hundreds of other involuntary function
- Consists of a Sympathetic and Non-Sympathetic Divison
How are different body parts affected by the activations of either the sympathetic or parasympathetic division?
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Fight or Flight Response (EDIT)
What is the Pituitary gland?
Pea-sized, underneath hypothalamus ”master gland”; involved in growth (hGH), metabolism (TSH) and reproduction (LH,FSH, prolactin). Targets many tissues: bones, thyroid, adrenal gland, ovaries, testes, breasts, kidneys.
