CH 14 Flashcards
(42 cards)
What’s a Stressor?
Specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten a person’s well being.
What’s Stress?
The physical and psychological response to internal or external stressors; typical responses to such stressors; and ways to manage stress.
What’s Health Psychology?
The subfield of psychology concerned with how psychological factors influence the causes and treatment of physical illness and the maintenance of health.
What’s Primary Appraisal?
Access whether of not an event or situation is threatening. Ex, looking at a bill as threatening when you don’t have the money in the bank to cover it.
What’s Secondary Appraisal?
Determine whether or not we are in control and if we have resources to deal with the stressor. Ex, if you don’t get paid before the bill is due you may feel trapped or unable to cope.
What’s the HPA Axis?
Hypothalamus (activation to a threat), pituitary (secrete stress hormone, ACTH), and adrenal glands (release stress hormone). The is the center of stress response.
What’s General Adaptation Syndrome (G.A.S)?
Physical response is the same no matter what the source of stress. A three staged physiological stress response that appears regardless of the stressor that is encountered.
What are Chronis Stressors?
Sources of stress that occur continuously or repeatedly.
What’s Flight or Fight Response?
An emotional and physiological reaction to an emergency that increases readiness for action.
What Are the 3 Stages of G.A.S?
Alarm phase, resistance phase, exhaustion phase.
What is Alarm Phase?
In which the body rapidly mobilizes its resources to respond to the threat.
What’s Resistance Phase?
The body adapts to its high state of arousal as it tries to cope with the stressor. Continuing to draw on resources of fat and muscle, it shuts down unnecessary processes; menstruation stops; production of testosterone and sperm decreases.
What’s Exhaustion Phase?
The body’s resistance collapses. Many of the resistance-phase defenses cause gradual damage as they operate, leading to costs for the body that can include susceptibility to infection, tumor growth, aging, irreversible organ damage, or death.
What’s Telomeres?
Caps at the ends of chromosomes that prevent the chromosomes from sticking to each other.
What’s Telomerase?
An enzyme that rebuilds telomeres at the tips of chromosomes.
What’s the Immune System?
A complex response system that protects the body from bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances.
What’s Lymphocytes (including t cells and b cells)?
Produce antibodies that fight infection.
What’s Psychoneuroimmunology?
The study of how the immune system responds to psychological variables, such as the presence of stressors.
What’s Type A Behavior Pattern?
Characterized by the tendency towards easily aroused hostility, impatience, a sense of time urgency, and competitive achievement strivings.
What’s Burnout?
A state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion resulting from long term involvement in an emotionally demanding situation and accompanied by lowered performance and motivation.
What’s Repressive Coping?
Avoiding feelings, thoughts, or situations that are reminders of a stressor and maintaining an artificially positive viewpoint.
What’s Rational Coping?
Involves facing the stressor and working to overcome it.
What’s Reframing?
Involves finding a new or creative way to think about a stressor that reduces its threat.
What’s Stress-inoculation Training (SIT)?
A reframing technique that helps people cope with stressful situations by developing positive ways to thinks about situations.
