Stress
The study of the effects of stress on the immune system
This personality type can experience stress more dangerously because of their workaholic nature
What is Type A personality
What is integration
Actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or manage the effects of stressors; These strategies can include both behavioral strategies and psychological strategies
What are coping strategies
Based in Buddhist philosophy, this meditation seeks to "unfold" an experience without judging or evaluating that experience. Typically this involves sitting quietly and focusing on your breathing for as long as you can.
What is mindfulness meditation
A way to deal with conflict where a person experiences attraction to two or more desirable goals. For example--having to choose between two delicious desserts
What is approach-approach conflict
When a person from one culture must live in another culture they might experience this type of stress
Acculturative stress
What is eustress
A series of mental exercises meant to refocus attention and achieve a trancelike state of consciousness; doing this can produce a state of relaxation that can aid in coping with the physiological reactions to a stressful situation
What is meditation
This field or type of psychology focuses on the impact that psychological traits have on health and rates of illness
What is health psychology
The Physical, emotional, cognitive, and/or behavioral response to evens that are appraised as threatening or challenging
What is Stress
Developed by Lazarus--his cognitive appraisal of stress can be broken down into this two step process
What is primary appraisal and secondary appraisal. Primary appraisal determines the severity of the stressor and secondary appraisal is when after we have identified the stress as a threat we determine if we have the capacity to deal with it.
They type of acculturative stress when a member of the minority culture completely rejects the majority or dominant culture; high amount of stress
What is separation
A type of coping strategy that works on eliminating or changing the stressor itself. For example if you are having trouble with a class this coping strategy might include talking with the professor or going to tutoring
What is problem-focused coping
Relying on these two things may help in coping with stress or may change your appraisal of events to be less stressful. Both come with their own set of coping strategies and social support systems
What is culture and religion
The sequence of physiological reactions that the body goes through when encountering a stressor. The sequence is alarm, resistance, exhaustion. The name of this sequence is:
What is general adaptation syndrome
A person from the minority culture gives up their old cultural identity to join the mainstream or majority culture. May change their names and experience moderate levels of stress or rejection by other members of their original culture
What is assimilation
The greatest amount of acculturative stress experienced by people who do not maintain contact with their original culture or join the majority culture.
What is marginalization
A coping strategy that involves changing the way we feel about a stressor to lessen its impact; This coping strategy works when the stressor cannot be eliminated or is uncontrollable
What is emotion focused coping
A type of conflict of choosing one goal that has both negative and positive aspects. For example: Marriage
What is approach-avoidance conflict
This personality type are known to experience stress as a challenge to overcome and not a frightening problem to be avoided.
A term developed by Seligman this is the tendency to stop trying to achieve a goal that has been blocked in the past. Rather than try something new to overcome a challenge, a person experiencing this may just accept the stress in their life
What is learned helplessness
The network of friends, family, coworkers, and people around us that can offer help to a person in need
What is a social support system