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Chapter 11 - Stress and Health Flashcards

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Stress

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Physical, emotional cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging

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Stressors

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Uma Ramamurthy
Houston
…or any other person/place/thing that causes stress

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Distress

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Unpleasant feeling caused by stressors

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Eustress

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Good stress that motivates you to do something (go to class instead of sleeping in)

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Cognitive Appraisal Approach to Stress

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How one appraises a stressor determines how stressing it is

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Primary Appraisal

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Knee-jerk reaction
Varies by individual
Determine whether entity is stressful or not
E.g., is test easy or hard (stressful or non-stressful)?

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Secondary Appraisal

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Conscious appraisal

E.g., you realize there are 6 days before the test left to study

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Catastrophe

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Unpredictable, large-scale event
Causes intense feeling of threat for an individual
Induces need to adapt/adjust
E.g., war, hurricane

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PTSD Symptoms

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Flashbacks
Depression
Hypervigilance (fear of loud noises)
Nightmares
Focus issues
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Hypervigilance

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Fear of loud noises

Associated with PTSD

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ASD

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Acute Stress Disorder

PTSD but only for <30 days

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Pressure

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Psychological experience produced by outside demands (college, self-pressure, etc.)
Pressure causes (leads to) distress
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External Locus of Control

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One’s environment dictates one’s behavior

No free will or ability to choose

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Frustration

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Experience of being blocked from a desired goal

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Displaced aggression

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Take out frustration on lesser target

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Escape (frustration)

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Physical self-removal from situation

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Withdrawal (frustration)

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Psychological self-removal from situation

E.g., drink alcohol, exercise, listen to music

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Anhedonia

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Depressive symptoms
Inability to experience fun/pleasure
Associated with burnout

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Approach-approach conflict

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“Eustress” conflict
Two good choices
E.g., graduate in one semester versus become CougarCS President

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Avoidance-avoidance conflict

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“Distress” conflict
Two bad choices
E.g., Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump (but Joe Biden isn’t that bad)

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Approach-avoidance conflict

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TBD

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Sympathetic system

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Triggered when experiencing stressor
BPM/blood pressure go up, nausea, sweat
Physical bodily reaction

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Stages of General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

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Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion

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Parasympathetic system

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“Renormalizes” body after stress

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Alarm (GAS)
Burst of energy, fight-or-flight
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Resistance (GAS)
Body prepares to adapt to stressor
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Exhaustion (GAS)
Resistance occurs too long, bear/shark eats you
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HPA Axis
3 glands involved in stress response ('drip" stress hormones into system) H - Hypothalamus P - Pituitary A - Adrenal Suppresses immune system, causes health problems
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Psychoneuroimmunology
Study of psychological factors on immune system
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Natural killer cell
Immune system cell responsible for killing viruses and tumor cells
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Mindfulness/meditation on stress
Greatly reduce stress | More effective than general stress-reduction class
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Type A personality
Hardworking, time-conscious, ambitious High levels of hostility and anger Easily annoyed Increased risk of Coronary Heart Disease
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Type B personality
Relaxed, lazy Less driven and competitive Slow to anger
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Type C personality
Pleasant but repressed Internalizes anger/anxiety Difficulty expressing emotions Increased risk of cancer
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Hardy personality
Me Thrives on stress Like Type A but lacks anger and hostility
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Poverty (stress)
Very stressful | Poor areas are high-crime, and stressful to be around crime
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Burnout
Negative thoughts from prolonged stress | Symptoms: Anhedonia
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Acculturative stress
Results from need to change/adapt to new majority culture | E.g., moving to new country
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Four methods of acculturation
Integration Assimilation Separation Marginalization
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Integration (acculturation)
Least stressful Ideal Maintain positive aspects of original culture Form positive relationship with new culture
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Assimilation (acculturation)
Somewhat stressful Lose original cultural identity (be Americanized) Full assimilation into new culture
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Separation (acculturation)
Quite stressful Happens to immigrant geezers They try to maintain original culture Find pockets of cultural identity (Chinatown)
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Marginalization (acculturation)
Very stressful No contact with either culture No social support E.g., someone moves to US for work, doesn't find pockets of original culture, does not engage with Americans
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Problem-focused coping
Bad coping Get rid of the stressor entirely Drop out of school/work
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Emotion-focused coping
Good coping Manage emotions Learn "relaxation techniques", "deep breathing" Can use negative techniques like drinking
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Freudian Defense Mechanisms
Subconscious distorts perceptions of reality to reduce stress and anxiety
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Denial (Freudian defense mechanisms)
Subconscious mind distorts reality to protect one from seeing terrible things E.g., don't see "cheating" Same as first stage of grief
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Repression
Uncommon | Child's mind blocks out memory of terrible memory (bad car accident)
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Rationalization
Subconscious justifies bad behavior | E.g., accidentally stealing something from office is okay because they have tons of money and stuff
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Projection
What Republicans do | Accuse opposition of doing the thing they secretly want to do
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Reaction formation
Opposite attitude or emotional reaction to inside feeling | E.g., anti-gay individual is actually gay
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Displacement
Similar to displaced aggression, generalized to all emotions | E.g., "love" on person but can't do it, so redirect to someone else
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Regression
Person acts immature instead of adulting, because of impatience E.g., Ted Cruz at the airport
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Compensation (substitution)
Person feels inferior in some way so they compensate in another way E.g., buy the big huge truck
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Sublimation
Channel unacceptable urges into something socially acceptable E.g., become surgeon if one wants to cut people up E.g., become a boxer if one wants to fight all the time

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