Understanding Stress
The interpretation of specific events as threatening or challenging.
What is Stress?
When cells divide rapidly, forming a tumor and invading healthy tissue.
What is Cancer?
Five stress management techniques.
What is exercise, relaxation, social support, behavior change, laughing, etc.
A subfield in psychology that studies how biological, psychological, and social factors influence health, illness, and health-related behaviors.
What is Health Psychology?
The pleasent, desirable stress that arouses us to preserve and accomplish challenging goals.
What is Eustress?
A forced choice between two or more incompatible alternatives.
What is Conflict?
Leisons to the lining of the stomach and upper small intestines.
What are Ulcers?
The strategies we use to relieve or regulate our emotional reactions to a stressful situation.
What is Emotion-Focused Coping?
Providing public information on how to prevent illnesses and health maintenance.
What do Health Psychologists do?
This stress hormone has a critical role to play for the long-term negative effects on the immune system.
What is Cortisol?
Types of events such as mass shootings and and natural disasters are examples.
What are Cataclysmic events?
A type of continuous or recurrent pain that comes with a lingering illness experienced over a period of 6 months or longer.
What is Chronic Pain?
The belief that you are in control of your own fate leads to effective decisions and a healthy lifestyle.
What is Internal LOC?
Health Psychologists are hired by these.
What are Medical Centers and Independent Consultants?
A tendency to expect the best and to see the best in all things.
What is Optimism?
A forced choice involing one option with equally desirable and undesirable characteristics.
What is Approach-Avoidance Conflict?
This non-invasive, non-drug treatment is used to help pain sufferers learn how to control one or more of their involuntary bodily functions by monitoring their own brain waves, heart rate, blood pressure, degree of muscle tension, etc.
What is Biofeedback?
The strategies that the ego uses to reduce anxiety, which distort reality and may increase self-deception.
What are Defense Mechanisms?
To reduce psychological distress and unhealthy behaviors.
What is the goal for Health Psychologists?
The small problems of daily living that may accumulate and become a major source of stress.
What are Hassles?
The three physical phases of the general adaptation syndrome.
What are Initial Alarm Reaction, Resistance, and Exhaustion?
One of the most powerful examples of severe stress. A long-lasting and is a stressor-related disorder that overwhelm's an individual's ability to cop.
What is PTSD?
A stress reduction strategy that helps train the consciousness to attend to ongoing events in a nonjudgmental way.
What is Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)?
The feeling of anxiety or mental pressure from overexposure to or involved with technology
What is Technostress?
When fat in the bloodstream sticks to the walls of blood vessels, this physical activity doesn't occur.
What is Fight or Flight?