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BMI

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Body Mass Index

A screening that determines what a person’s healthy body weight is using info like their height and age.

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Set Point

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A mechanism that proposes to maintain the body weight of an individual.

Think: it’s easy to lose a few pounds but plateau’s at a certain point.

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Social Contagion

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Behaviour that spreads unintentionally because of a social interaction.

Example: Cackle, snorting, burp puffing

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Stress

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Physiological and psychological reaction.

Occurs when PERCEIVED DEMAND is greater than the abilities and resources you have to meet those demands.

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Stressor

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Causes of the stress reaction.

Can be either
ACUTE EVENTS or CHRONIC EVENTS

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GAS

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General Adaptation Syndrome

A theory used to explain the stages of stress.

1) Alarm
2) Adaptation/Resistance
3) Exhaustion

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Cortisol

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Hormone (Glucocorticoid)

  • Excreted from the adrenal cortex
  • Prepares the body to respond to stressful circumstances
  • suppresses the immune system (reduces inflammation)
  • increases the availability of blood sugar
  • researchers believe that cortisol leads us to believe that calorie-rich foods are more rewarding in times of stress “comfort food”
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HPA axis

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A circuit involving the Hypothalamus, Adrenal Pituitary Gland and the Adrenal Cortex.

When a stressful situation is perceived, the hypothalamus releases a hormone CORTICOTROPHIN RELEASING FACTOR

which stimulates the Pituitary glad to release
ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIN RELEASING FACTOR

which stimulates the Adrenal Cortex to release cortisol.

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Oxytocin

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Hormone

  • Released when stress is perceived
  • Typically associated with maternal bonding or social relationships

More so relied upon by women as a form of stress coping

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Vasopressin

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Hormone

  • associated with social bonding
  • also interacts with the immune system (reduced inflammation)
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Type A

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Personality type

Impatient, competitive, easily angered, highly motivated.

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Type B

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Personality type

Easy going, laid back, patient and relaxed disposition.

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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The study of how the nervous system is related to the immune system.

GETTING SICK WHEN YOU ARE STRESSED

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Adrenal Glands

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Adrenal Cortex and the Adrenal Medulla found near the stomach.

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Fight or Flight Response

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When a stressor is perceived, the Hypothalamus stimulates the sympathetic nervous system

which triggers the adrenal medulla to release Epinephrine and Nonepinephrine

which trigger bodily changes (fight or flight)

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Coronary Heart Disease

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Injury in an artery or vein

White blood cells congregate until there is a build up.

The plaque build up in blood vessels restrict blood flow to the heart.

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Coping

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Process of managing demands, stress and conflict.

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Problem-solving coping

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A coping technique

Defining the problem and working towards a solution.

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Emotional based coping

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A coping technique

Identifying the emotions behind the stressor and dealing with how it makes you feel.

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Positive Psychology

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The study of human potential and the strengths we have.

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Optimism

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A tendency to have a favourable, constructive view on situations and expect positive outcomes.

Opposite: Pessimism

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Resilience

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The ability to effectively recover from adversity or ilnesss.

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Post-Traumatic Growth

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The capacity to grow as a person and produce long term positive effects in response to negative experiences/events.

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Biofeedback

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A technique that is used for therapeutic reasons in which equipment records bodily processes, provides feedback and increases awareness of these bodily processes.

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Negative Affectivity

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Responding to problems in a negative way, with anger, anxiety, guilt, hostility, nervousness.
AAGHN.

Think: papa

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Pessimistic Explanatory Style

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The tendency to explain or interpret bad things that happen as INTERNALLY based, as a CONSTANT and STABLE quality.

Think: blaming everything on something that’s wrong about yourself.

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Learned Helplessness

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An acquired behaviour in which an individual suppresses feelings of escapism or avoidance as a response to unpleasant and uncontrollable circumstances

  • used a model to show how people with depression outlook life
  • Dog Procedure with Martin Silegman 1960
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Compensatory Control

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When events are out of personal control, turning to ideas of religion, superstition, seeing patterns in random arrays and conspiracy theories to explain the events in a non-random way.

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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor

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A protein found the nervous system that increases the growth, survival and formation of new synapses.

-stimulated by intense exercise

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