What is stress
What is stress?
Events that an individual perceives as overwhelming or threatening to their well-being
What are the 2 categories for stressors?
Chronic and acute
In a sense the ___ is the body’s surveillance system.
Immune system.
What is perceived control?
Is our beliefs about our personal capacity to exert influence over and shape outcomes, and it has major implications for our health and happiness.
What is the definition of happiness?
an enduring state of mind consisting of joy, contentment, and other positive emotions, plus the sense that one’s life has meaning and value
What is the difference between good and bad stress?
Eustress- positive feelings, optima health, and performance / Distress- excessing and debilitating
What is the range of the lowest to highest number of life change units in the Social Readjustment Rating Scale?
11-63
What are psychophysiological disorders?
Physical disorders or diseases whose symptoms are brought about or worsened by stress and emotional factors.
What are the different forms of social support?
Social support can take many forms, including advice, guidance, encouragement, acceptance, emotional comfort, and tangible assistance
Studies show that married people report being happier than those who are ?
single, divorced, or widowed
What is an example of primary appraisal?
An employee who is promoted to a leadership position would ikey perceive that promotion as a much greater threat if they believed promotion would lead to excessive work demands than if they viewed it as an opportunity to gain new skills and grow professionally.
What are Daily Hassles?
Minor irritations and annoyances that are part of our everyday lives
What is psychoneuroimmunology?
Psychoneuroimmunology is the field that studies how psychological factors such as stress influence the immune system and immune functioning.
How did Herbert Benson contribute to psychology?
He developed a stress reduction method called the relaxation response technique.
Happy people, compared to those who are less happy, are more likely to ?
to graduate from college and secure more meaningful and engaging jobs.
What is one result of the fight-or flight-response?
Pupils dilate/ Heart Rate increases/ Perspiration begins
True or false: Are traumatic events correlated with chronic stressors?
True
What is asthma, and what is an asthma attack?
Asthma is a chronic and serious disease leading to great difficulty by expelling air from the lungs. Asthma attacks are acute episodes in which an asthma sufferer experiences the full range of symptoms.
What are the four components of the relaxation response technique?
sitting upright on a comfortable chair with feet on the ground and body in a relaxed position, being in a quiet environment with eyes closed,repeating a word or a phrase—a mantra—to oneself, such as “alert mind, calm body,”passively allowing the mind to focus on pleasant thoughts, such as nature or the warmth of your blood nourishing your body.
What are the 3 distinct elements of happiness ?
The pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life
What were the contributions of Water Cannon and Hans Selye to the stress research field?
Cannon was the first to identify the body’s physiological reactions to stress; he also created the fight-or-flight response. Selye was a famous stress researcher who defined stress.
What stressor do most job occupations have in common?
Work overload
What is a headache, and what are the different types of headaches?
A headache is a continuous pain anywhere in the head and neck region, different types of headaches include: sinuses headaches, migraine headaches, and tension headaches.
What is ‘’Biofeedback’’?
Biofeedback is a technique that uses electronic equipment to accurately measure a person’s neuromuscular and autonomic activity—feedback is provided in the form of visual or auditory signals.
Positive psychology can be thought of as ?
The science of happiness