Chapter 11 - Stress And Health Flashcards

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Eustress

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  • Effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being.
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Catastrophe

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  • An unpredictable, large-scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as overwhelming feelings of threat.
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Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)

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  • Assessment that measures the amount of stress in a person’s life over a 1 year period resulting from Major life events.
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College Undergraduate Stress Scale (CUSS)

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  • Assessment that measures the amount of stress in college student’s life over a 1 year period resulting from Major life events.
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Hassles

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  • The daily annoyances of everyday life.
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Stress

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  • Term used to describe the physical, emotions, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging.
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Stressors

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  • Events that cause a stress reaction.
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Distress

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  • The effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors.
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General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

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-Three stages of the body’s physiology reaction to stress, including alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

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Immune system

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  • System of cells, organs, and chemicals of the body that responds to attacks from diseases, infections, and injuries.
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Psychoneuroimmunology

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  • Study of the effects of psychological factors such as stress, emotions, thoughts,and behavior on the immune system.
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Coronary heart disease (CHD)

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  • Buildup of a waxy substance called plaque in the arteries of the heart.
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Type 2 diabetes

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  • Disease typically occurring in middle adulthood when the body either becomes resistant to the effects of insulin or can no longer secrete enough insulin to maintain normal glucose levels.
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Natural killer (NK) cell

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  • Immune-system fell responsible for suppressing viruses and destroying tumor cells.
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Health Psychology

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  • Area of psychology focusing on how physical activities, psychological traits, stress reactions, and social relationships affect overall health and rate of illnesses.
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Mindful meditation

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-A form of concentrative meditation in which the person purposefully pays attention to the present moment, without judgement or evaluation.

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Use of Coping with effects of stress

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  • Reduce stress by deliberately and purposefully paying attention to the moment-by-moment “unfolding” of experience without judging that experience.
  • Increases sense of well-being, and improve emotional health.