Week 24 Flashcards
Fight or flight
Reaction to perceived threats. Adrenaline begins to flow quicker. Body goes on alert and senses go on alert to assess the situation. Once the threat is removed, our bodies go back to the baseline
Social readjustment rating scale
The scale lists 43 stressful life events and each is assigned a value depending on how traumatic that event was felt to be. The total value can be worked out by adding up the scores for each event over a 12 month period
General adaption syndrome
Useful framework for understanding psychological reactions to stressors. Made up of 3 stages: alarm, resistance, exhaustion. Long term psychological stress also puts us through these stages
Stages of GAS
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
Emotion-focused coping
Aims to decrease our emotional reaction to a stressful situation. These strategies include regular aerobic exercise, progressive muscle relaxation and cognitive appraisal. The process of adjusting perceptions of existing stressors as being less stressing
Problem-focused coping
Changes on existing stressful situations by decreasing/eliminating it. This method is only possible in circumstances cannot be controlled
Proactive coping
Used up from to decrease the occurrence of stressful life events or prevent them from occurring
Stress inoculation training
Prepares for the negative effects of stressful events and gives them skills to decrease their susceptibility
Theory of planned behaviour
Explains our actions in terms of our attitudes or our evolution of the behaviour, subjective norms or our beliefs about what other people think we should dol and perceived behaviour control and confidence in our ability to achieve the desired behaviour
Perceived behavioural control
Refers to our confidence that we can achieve the desired behaviour. This concept is the same as Bandura’s concept of self-efficacy
Subjective norms
Such as when smoking used to be ‘cool’. behaviours that are normal in certain situations
