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Stress+Health (Module 2 Ch 12) Flashcards

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Stress

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The process by which we perceive and respond to events that we identify as challenging or threatening

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Stressors

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Events that trigger a stress response

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Tend-and-Befriend

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Dealing with stressful stimuli through emotional and social support

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Catharsis

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Letting out the negative emotional response to stress via lashing out
Actually perpetuates negative emotions

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Adaptation-Level Phenomenon

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Tendency to judge a current experience based off of a past one

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Relative Deprivation

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Tendency to feel worse about ourselves or our situations than we would if the same thing was happening to someone else

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Crisis Debriefing

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Attempting to prevent negative stress responses following a big traumatic event by going through a 3-4 hour debriefing session with others who experienced the same event

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Is Crisis Debriefing effective?

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No, research shows it makes people more likely to develop PTSD because the debrief occurs so shortly after the event and may force people to recall the event in an uncomfortable way

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Stress as Stimuli

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Focuses on the event that leads to the stress response

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Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)

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Quantifies stress in terms of major life changes
Drawbacks: ignores that people view the same stressor differently and ignores people’s emotional responses to stressors

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Stress as Response

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Focuses on the immediate physical and mental reactions to a stressful situation

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Stress as Transaction

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Focuses on the interaction between a person and their environment (how we cope with stress)

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Primary vs Secondary Appraisal

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Determining the relevancy of an event to you vs determining what resources you have to deal with that event

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What are the categories of Stress?

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Frustration, Conflict, and Pressure

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Frustration

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Your pursuit of a goal is blocked or thwarted

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Conflict

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Trying to decide between two internal motivations or external behavioral impulses

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Approach-Approach Conflict

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Making a decision between two attractive choices

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Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict

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Making a decision between two unattractive choices

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Approach-Avoidance Conflict

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Making a decision between two things that have pros and cons

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Pressure

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Social expectations or demands that you have to behave in a certain way even if you don’t want to

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What are the categories of Stressors?

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Catastrophe, Life Changes, and Daily Hassles

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Catastrophe

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Some sort of large disruption to your typical life

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Life Changes

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Any sort of long-term transition in your life

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Daily Hassle

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Small annoyances that strain your ability to cope

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Type A Stress Personality
Tend to be ambitious, driven, competitive, hostile, and have higher levels of stress
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Type B Stress Personality
Tend to be relaxed, patient, easy-going, and chill
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Explanatory Style
Are you an optimist or a pessimist
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Locus of Control
How much control you feel you have over your life
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Internal vs External Locus of Control
You feel that you're the one leading your life vs you feel the world is making decisions for you
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Diathesis-Stress Model
Stress can kick off a genetic predisposition for a disease or disorder, including cancer
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Psychosomatic Theory
Emotional factors can lead to the occurrence or worsening of illness
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Physiological Reactivity Approach vs Health Behavior Approach
Sustained activation of the body's stress response increases likelihood of illness VS diet, exercise, and substance abuse increase likelihood of illness
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Inflammation
The experience of stress leads to greater inflammation responses, which can associated with heart disease
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Fallacy of Uniform Efficacy
Stress is a personal response Not every coping strategy is going to work for everyone, such as exercise, meditation, and religiosity
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What have studies shown us about relaxation techniques?
They can decrease your risk of getting another heart attack (after you've already had one before)
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Why does religion contribute to lower levels of stress?
Some of the rules associated with it, such as banning alcohol consumption, can be better for health Social support
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Decisional Control
Increasing the control you feel you have over your decisions (shifting from external to internal locus of control)
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Informational Control
The ability to gain more information about a stressful event
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Emotional Control
The ability to control your negative emotions, decreasing the level of stress response
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Problem-Focused Coping
Coping with stress by attempting to solve the problem, situation, or stimuli that's causing the stress
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Emotion-Focused Coping
Dealing with the mental and emotional response to stress Replacing negative emotionality with positive emotionality
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Social Support
Reaching out to closely affiliated others seeking help or support with stressful situations
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Direct Effects Hypothesis
Social support is beneficial to physical and mental health even when you're not experiencing stress Associated with increased happiness and health in both collectivist and individualist cultures
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Positive Well-Being
Focuses on increasing your satisfaction with the past, your happiness in the present, and your optimism for the future
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Positive Traits
Focuses on enhancing positive traits like creativity, leadership, courage, etc.
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Positive Institutions
Seeking to create a positive social environment for growth and development
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What concepts can contribute to Longevity?
Money, Internal Locus of Control, Self-Control, Explanatory Style (optimism), Social Support
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How does self-control increase longevity?
Tend to have lower levels of stress (greater patience) Less likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors
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Neuroendocrine System
The hormonal systems involved in emotions and stress
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Catecholamines
Released by the adrenal glands Control Autonomic Nervous System activation (fight or flight) Dopamine and norepinephrine
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Glucocorticoids
Activates physiological systems during emergencies Control metabolic functions Cortisol
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Adrenal-Medullary System
Neuroendocrine pathway in which the hypothalamus tells the adrenal glands to release norepinephrine, activating the sympathetic nervous system
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HPA Axis
Neuroendocrine pathway that tells the adrenal gland to release cortisol
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Hans Seyle
Coined the term General Adaptation Syndrome, which refers to a generalized, nonspecific set of changes that occur in the body in response to stress
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What are the 3 stages of General Adaptation Syndrome?
Alarm - initial physiological shock or emergency response; mobilizes the body's resources Resistance - the body tries to manage the threat Exhaustion - the body depletes its resources for fighting the threat, making illness more likely
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Allostasis
The body achieves stability through change
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Natural Immunity vs Acquired Immunity
Preexisting processes such as phagocytosis (cell eating) and inflammation (restoration of tissue) that help remove foreign objects from the body VS Using specialized cells to kill specific foreign bodies
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B vs T Lympocytes
White blood cells that release antibodies vs white blood cells that fight antigens
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CVR Model
Hostility increases the likelihood of heart disease

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