Psychology 10 Flashcards
(44 cards)
What is stimulus based stressed?
Stress as stimulus causing certain reactions; failing to recognize people differ in how they view or react to challenges
What is response based stress?
Stress as a response to environmental conditions
What is the primary appraisal of stress?
Judgment about the degree of potential heart/threat to well-being that stressor might entail triggering the secondary appraisal
What is the secondary appraisal of stress?
Judgment of the options available to cope w/stressor and perceptions of how effective options will be
What is the difference between eustress and distress?
Eustress is the good kind of stress associated with positive feelings although after optimal level becomes debilitating and becomes distress which is the burnt out feeling of fatigue and performance declines
Who was the first to identify the body’s psychological reactions to stress?
Walter Cannon
What was the response Walter Cannon came up with in regards to stress?
The fight or flight response
Who first studied the General Adaptation Syndrome?
Selye
What is the General Adaptation Syndrome?
body’s nonspecific physiological response to stress
What is the Alarm reaction in regards to general adaptation syndrome?
The body’s immediate reaction upon facing a threatening situation or emergency
What is the stage of resistance in regards to general adaptation?
Initial shock has worn off; body adapted to the stressor
What is the stage of exhaustion in regards to general adaptation?
The person is no longer to adapt to stressor; body’s ability to resist is depleted; physical toll begins to take place
What are the 2 biological parts involved in stress?
Sympathetic nervous system and hypothalamic-pituitary -adrenal (HPA) axis
Describe the process involved in stress and the hypothalamus
The hypothalamus releases cortico trephine-releasing factor; hormone causing pituitary gland to release adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH); this activates the adrenal gland which secretes epinephrine norepinephrine, and cortisol
What is cortisol?
Stress hormone that helps provide a boost of energy when stressor is first encountered
What did Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe in the 1960’s examine and create?
A link between stressors and physical illness which led them to create the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)
What is the SRRS?
43 life events requiring varying degrees of personal readjustment
Define depersonalization
Sense of emotional detachment between worker and recipients of services resulting in callous/indifferent attitudes towards individuals
What are psychophysiological disorders?
Physical disorders or diseases whose symptoms are brought about or worsened by stress and emotional factors
What did Franz Alexander do?
He was a psychoanalyst and physician who postulated sieges caused by specific unconscious conflicts
What did Friedman and Booth-Kewley propose and give an example?
They proposed the existence of disease-prone personality characteristics such as neuroticism
What is neuroticism?
A trait reflecting how anxious, moody, and sad one is= risk factor for chronic health problems and mortality
What defines autoimmune diseases?
Disease in which your body mistakes own healthy cells for invaders and are attacking them
What is immunosuppression?
Decreased effectiveness of the immune system
