POSITIVE AND NEGTAIVE STRESSORS
This is the Psychological Term for Positive Stress.
What is Eustress
When faced with a stressful situation, what system is triggered by the body in response to it?
What is fight-or-flight?
People with these personalities view stressors as opportunities and manage stress better.
What is Hardy personalities?
This type of Locus of Control Means you determine your fate.
What is Internal Locus of Control?
This refers to the conscious and consistent decision to follow established guidelines, rules or instructions.
What is Compliance?
This is the first Stage of Appraisal.
What is Primary Appraisal?
According to the General Adaptation Syndrome, the body responds to stress in BLANK amount of stages.
What is THREE stages?
Persons with these TYPE of behaviour patterns, are often passive, conflict-avoidant, suppress emotions and may be more vulnerable to stress-related illnesses like cancer due to immune suppression.
What is Type C personality?
Seeing stress as a challenge makes people more likely to feel helpless and avoid the situation.
True or False?
What is False?
This method of improving adherence where doctors and patients work together to decide on treatments, rather than the doctor setting the agenda alone is called BLANK.
What is Shared Decision-Making?
This type of coping style does NOT target the source of the problem and may lead to rumination.
What is Emotion-Focused Coping?
BLANK & BLANK are the two types of stressor?
What is ACUTE & CHRONIC?
Older people may have less experience or fewer coping strategies, but more physical resilience. True or False?
What is False?
Older people may have more psychological wisdom, but also weaker physical systems.
Mike did not study for his exam because he went to a party last night. When he gets the results back, he as shocked to see that he has failed. He blames his poor score on the test on the teacher and says that she does not like him. What is he displaying here?
What is External locus of control?
This reflects issues such as disagreement with the rules, a lack of clarity regarding what is expected, or external obstacles that prevent adherence.
What is Non-Compliance?
This is a personal/situational factor that describes if a person thinks they have control or do not have control over the situation.
What is Perceived Control?
BLANK stressors are more damaging because they keep the stress-response system activated.
What is CHRONIC stressors?
Optimists are less likely to use adaptive coping strategies and have better health outcomes.
True or False?
What is False?
When face with uncontrollable stressors optimists experience a weaker sense of helplessness and failure whereas pessimists get what they expect.
True or False?
What is True?
Deviation from Guidelines and Lack of Agreement are the main points associated with BLANK.
What is Non-Compliance?
Sally is stressed out about something that happened at school yesterday. She decides to find the source of the issue in order to reduce the stress she is experiencing and eventually she felt better. What type of coping skills did she display here?
What is Problem-focused Coping?
Those who feel powerless often show signs of BLANK , leading to depression and illness.
What is Learned Helplessness?
In this stage if stress continues without proper coping, the body’s resources become depleted, making it vulnerable to illness.
What is the Exhaustion Stage?
People with an internal locus of control handle stress better.
True or False?
What is True?
A collaborative process where healthcare decisions are made jointly between the patient and provider, respecting the patient's preferences, values, and beliefs.
What is concordance?