Unit 7 Pt 3: Stress And Health

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Behavioral Medicine

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Field that combines knowledge of biomedical perspective and behavioral perspective to study and TREAT health and illness.

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Behavioral Medicine is interchangeably used with

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Psychiatry

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Health psychology

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Sub field of psychology that is used to contribute to behavioral medicine. Looks at psychological causes of illness and stress (cognitive, environment, social, behavioral, etc.)

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What research is behavioral research?

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Applied research

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What research is health psychology?

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Basic research

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Stress

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We respond to events, that apprise as threatening/challenging

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APPRISE as threatening/challenging

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Cognitive

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Stressors

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Events/things that stress us out

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Stress can be harmful or helpful depending on your

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Appraisal

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What is activated in you feel stress?

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Sympathetic nervous system and endocrine system

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When sympathetic nervous system is activated

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Norepinephrine is released

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When endocrine system is activated

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Adrenal glands release hormones: epinephrine (immediate stressor) OR
Cortsol(long term stressor)

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Animals and humans tend to react to stress in

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the same pattern

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Hans Selye

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Discovered the responsive cycle for how we react to stress which he named GAS

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Hans Selye discovery’s name

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General Adaptation Syndrome

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Phase 1 of GAS: Alarm

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Activation of sympathetic nervous system

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Phase 2 of GAS: Resistance

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Arousal remains high as you attempt to cope with the stressor “fight or flight”

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Phase 3 of GAS: Exhaustion

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Body becomes run down with constant stress which can leave you more vulnerable to illness or even death.

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Neck starts to ache after studying is in which phase?

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Phase 3: exhaustion

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External locus of control

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Not in control

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Internal locus of control

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In control

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Catastrophes

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Unavoidable natural disasters, etc.

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Significant life changes

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Loss of loved one, leaving home, loss of job, etc.

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Everyday hassles

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Traffic, long lines at grocery store, etc.

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Stressful events are especially harmful if they’re perceived as

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negative and uncontrollable

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Those who feel stressful events are

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Beyond their control are also more susceptible to illness and disease

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The rat with no control over the stocks develops

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Ulcers

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Persistent day to day stress may lead to

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Burnout

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Burnout

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Physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion brought on by persistent job related stress

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Burnout is often common in

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Teachers, nurses, and police officers

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Leading cause of death in America in 1950s

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Heart disease

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Coronary heart disease

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When vessels of heart are clogged which stops heart muscles from being nourished

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Major factor in coronary heart disease

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Stress

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Coronary heart disease is with

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Cortsol

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Type A personality

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Competitive, hard driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people

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Type B personality

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Easy going, relaxed people

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Which type of people are at greater risk for heart disease?

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Type A people

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Temperament

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Is also a stress, being lifetime oriented

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Immune system can either react

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Too strongly or under react to harmful bodies

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Over-reaction causes

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Body attacks to its own tissue

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Overreaction causes examples

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Arthritis, allergies, lupus, M.S.

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Under-reaction causes

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harmful bodies to spread

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Under-reaction causes example

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Cancer

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Stress can divert energy away from _________ ________ making illness _______ _______.

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Immune systems, more likely

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Aerobic exercise has ________ and ________ benefits.

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Psychological, physical

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Aerobic exercise benefits

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Increases heart and lung fitness and may also help alleviate depression and anxiety.

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Biofeedback

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System for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state like blood pressure and muscle tension.