Week 11-Stress, Health and Coping

Question 1

Health Psychology

Answer 1

• Study of both positive and negative impacts that humans’ behaviour and
  decisions have on their health, survival, and well-being

Question 2

The biopsychosocial model focuses

Answer 2

on health as well as illness and
holds that both are determined by
a combination of biological,
psychological, and social factors

Question 2

Type A Personality

Answer 2

• Impatient and worry about time, and are easily angered, competitive,
  and highly motivated.

Question 3

Social Resilience

Answer 3

• Ability to keep positive relationships and to endure and recover from
  social isolation and life stressors

Question 4

Three Stages of G A S

Answer 4

1. Alarm Stage
   * Sympathetic nervous system releases
   hormones; emotional reaction – defense
   forces mobilized to respond to the stressor.
2. Resistance Stage
   * Physiological efforts to resist or adapt to
   stressor.
3. Exhaustion Stage
   * If organism fails in efforts to resist stressor

Question 5

Fawn (or appease):

Answer 5

immediately acting to try to please to avoid any
conflict

Question 6

PTSD 4 Primary characteristics:

Answer 6

• Intrusive re-experiencing event
• Negative Mood and Cognitions
• Avoidance of triggers
• Hyper-arousal/vigilant – always on alert

Question 7

PTSD brain

Answer 7

Right Brain
* Fully right brain reaction designed to ensure safety
* The right amygdala is strongly over-reactive
* The hippocampus is deactivated - decreased neuronal and functional integrity
Left Brain
* The left prefontal cortex
responsible for meaning and consistency in mental experiences
* unable to make sense of the traumatic experience and translate it into a coherent narrative

Question 8

Psychoneuroimmunology

Answer 8

• Study of the relationship between the immune system and central nervous
  system

Question 9

Primary Appraisal

Answer 9

• Evaluate potentially stressful event and how it
  affects well-being.
• Is perception irrelevant or involving harm, loss,
  threat, challenge.

Question 10

Secondary Appraisal

Answer 10

• Evaluating one’s coping resources and how to
  deal with stressful event

Question 11

Lazarus and Folkman

Answer 11

focused on the importance of a
person’s perceptions and appraisal of stressors

Question 12

There are 2 basic ways of coping

Answer 12

1. Problem-focused coping:
   * Attempts to tackle the problem head on
   - reducing, modifying, eliminating
   source(s) of stress.
2. Emotion-focused coping:
   * Dealing with one’s feelings about the
   stressful event - changing emotional
   responses.

Question 13

Protective influences-

Answer 13

personal, social, &
institutional resources that foster competence
& promote successful development