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Ch 10: Stress And Health Flashcards

1
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Our reaction to events that disturb our equilibrium and tax our ability to respond

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Stress

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3 types of stress

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Catastrophies, significant life changes, daily hassles

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Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in 3 stages: alarm, resistance, exhaustion

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General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

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Under stress people (often women) often provide emotional support to others and bond with and seek support from others

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Tend and befriend

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The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes combine to affect our immune system and health

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Pyschoneuroimmunology

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Reducing stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods; ways to adapt to internal and external demands or challenges

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Coping

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Taking an active role to solve problems; fixing the source of the problem

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Problem focused coping

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Managing one’s reaction to a problem

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Emotion-focused coping

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Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless

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Personal control

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10
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The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or person learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events

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Learned helplessness

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The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our control determine our fate

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External locus of control

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12
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The perception that we control our own fate

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Internal locus of control

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13
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Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life.

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Subjective well being

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14
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Moving away from the source of the stress

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Avoidance

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What is causing the stress

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Stressor

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Phase 1: sympathetic nervous system activated, heart rate increase

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Alarm reaction

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Phase 2; temp, BP, and respiration remain high, adrenal gonads pump stress hormones, ready to fight back

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Resistance

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Phase 3; symptoms of 1 return, body reserves begin to run out

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Exhaustion

19
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Toxic component of Type A

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Aggression and hostility

20
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Three components of type A

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Competitive achievement striving, Time urgency, aggression and hostility

21
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Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive hard driving, inpatient and anger prone people

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Type A

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F and R’s term for easy going relaxed people

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Type B

23
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Social supports helps us

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Calm our cardiovascular system and lower blood pressure, helps us fight illness by building immune functioning

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How mindfulness helps us make positive changes

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It strengthens brain, activate brain, calms brain

25
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An enhanced attention to and awareness of the present; being full aware of here and now

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Mindfulness meditation

26
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Why religiously active people might be healthier

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Healthy lifestyles, social support, positive emotions,

27
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Physiological costs of chronic exposure to the neural or neuroendocrine stress response

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Allostatic load

28
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The act or process of spending time in quiet thought

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Meditation

29
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5 components of mindfulness

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Nonreactivity, observing, act with awareness, describing/labeling, nonjudging

30
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Helps people cope with cravings that might trigger setbacks or relapses

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Urge surfing

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Urge surfing

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Self monitor, identify, visualize

32
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Broad interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge to fight disease and promote health

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Behavioral medicine

33
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Study of the interaction between the mind and the physical health of the body

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Health psychology

34
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Suggestions for a happier life

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Control your time; act happy; do things that engage your skills; but experiences; work out; sleep; prioritize close relationships; focus beyond self; count blessings; nurture spiritual self

35
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Explanations between religiousness and mortality

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Healthier lives; social support; positive emotions; meditation and prayer

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