Abnormal Week 6 Flashcards
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_____ is a term used to refer to some environmental conditiong that triggers psychopathology
stress
how created the term stress
“The father of stress”
Hans Selyse, a researcher who conducted work in Montreal, and also identified General adaptation syndrome
Explain Selye’s general adaptation syndrom
Phase 1: the alarm reaction (ANS) activated by stress)
phase 2: resistance: (damage occurs or organism adapts to stress)
Phase 3: Exhaustion (organism dies or suffers irreversible damage)
the two types of stress and their definitions
distress- damaging and unpleasent
eustress - positive and pleasant stress
instead of stress, what did Seyle come to believe he should have used
strain
what is chronically activated if a person is chronically stressed
the sympathetic nervous system
psychogenic and neurogenic stressors
psychogenic stressors - stem from psychological factors
neurogenic stressors- stems from a physical stimulis
prolonged demands on neurochemical systems may create a condition called ______ which can lead to a variety of pathological outcomes
allostatic load: a maladaptive condition based on neurochemical reactionthat reflect prolonged exposure to unpredictable stressors
how people try to deal with a problem or handle the emotions it produces
coping
problem-focused coping
when is it most adaptive
taking direct action to solve the problem or seeking info that will be relevent to the solution
- most adaptive when a sitaution is controllable
emotion-focused coping
efforts to reduce the negative emotional reactions to stress
______ hypothesis suggests that whether a a paricular coping repsonse is adaptive depnds on the match between the coping response and what is called for ideally the problem situation
goodness of hit hypothesis
what is the least effective coping methods for many life porblems
escape/ avoidance
the social readjustment rating scale
emerged from study of ppl rating things in intensity and amoun tof time they thought they’d need to readjust to it
ppl in a space of time would add up things and come up with a Life change unit (LCU)
assessment of Daily experience (ADE)
individuals record and rate daily experiences in prospective or longitudinal investingations, not retrospectively, with days as a unit of analysis
the brief college hassels scale taps three main themes. what are they?
- higher scores on this scale are linekd with what
academic hassels
interpersonal hassels
financial hassels
- greater psychological distress
a term for thenotion that stressed workers bring their work stress home with them and it causes family stress
job spillover
the 3 components of job burnout
1) a sense of emotional exhaustion
2) depersonalization
3) a sense of lack of personal accomplishment
a physical depletion that is also linked to cardioascular disease. Can stem from overworking and striving
vital exhaustion
in the case of cancer, what would be the worst way to cope with the stress
ignoring the problem; denial
the notino that behaviour is a joint function of personal characteristics and the properties of the situations that are experienced
interactionism
Explain Endler’s Interaction model
personality traits interact dynamically with situational factors to produce behaviours
different anxiety traits combine with congruent situaational factors to produce immediate levels of eanxiety ex: a socially anxious person will be anxious in situations involving the possibility of public failures
endler added stress and coping components to the ineraction model - coping is an aspect of personality.. when ppl feal with situational stressors, a key determinate of their emotional response is their typical coping style
what is palliative coping
attempts to feel better via self-soothing and self-help by doing things such as stay in bed or resting when tired
perservative cognition
the experience of ruminative thoughts
