Unit 7 - Stress and Personality Flashcards
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General Adaptation Syndrome
Occurs over a long period of time and has three stages.
1. Alarm Stage: Body prepares for attack.
2. Resistance: Body uses up a great amount of energy.
3. Exhaustion: Health problems.
Tend and Befriend Response
Reaction to stress that create social networks that provide protection, especially in women. The hormone linked to this is oxytocin.
Psychophysiological Illness
Stress-related physical illness.
Psychoneuroimmunology
Study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes affect the immune system.
Lymphocytes
White blood cells part of the immune system. During stress, energy is mobilized away from the immune system.
B lymphocytes: fight bacterial infections.
T lymphocytes: attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances.
Coronary Heart Disease
Clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle.
Type A Personality
Competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone; more likely to develop coronary heart disease.
Type B Personality
Easygoing, relaxed people.
Psychoanalysis
Freud’s theory; attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.
Unconscious Mind
Reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories (repression).
Free Association
Therapy strategy used by Freud; ask patients to say whatever came to their minds.
Dream Analysis
Interpretation of the manifest and latent contents of dreams.
Id - Pleasure Principle
Unconscious; strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives; operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
Ego - Reality Principle
Executive; mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality; operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.
Superego - Honorable Conscience
Unconscious; standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations; Morality Principle; Too strong = feelings of guilt
Psychosexual Stages
Personality formed during the first few years of life divided into psychosexual stages.
Oedipus Complex
Boy’s unconscious sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father; results in feeling guilt and fear of punishment.
Identification
Superego gains strength that incorporates their parents’ values.
Fixation
Unresolved conflicts; causes the person to be locked into certain behaviors. Ex. Oral Fixation, Anal Fixation
Defense Mechanisms
Methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
Psychodynamic Theories
Modern-day approaches; focus on the unconscious and childhood experiences.
Collective Unconscious
Common reservoir of images derived from our species’ past.
Archetypes
Are inherited universal concepts like mother or hero.
Projective Test
Provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics; lack of validity.
