Understanding Stress
What is the interpretation of specific events as threatening or challenging?
Stress
Stress can affect what five illnesses?
Gastric Ulcers, Cancer, Cardiovascular disorders, Chronic pain, and PTSD
Who studies the effects of stress on the immune system?
Health Psychologist?
What is Health Psychology?
The branch that studies how biological, psychological, and social factors influence health.
What is a stressor?
trigger or stimulus that induces stress.
What is a short-term arousal in response to a perceived threat?
Acute stress
Health psychologists suggest what types of psychologically orientated treatments? (3)
Behavior modification, Biofeedback, and Relaxation
People who believe they are the "maters of their own destiny" have what is known as...
Internal Locus of Control
What do health psychologists help people cope with?
Chronic pain, Diabetes, and high blood pressure
T/F Stressors can be positive and negative?
True (ex- exercise)
What is the state of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion?
Burnout
What does "Psychosomatic" mean reagarding illnesses?
Some illnesses are influenced by psychological factors.
People who believe that chance or outside forces beyond our control determine our fate are...
External Locus of Control
What does research suggest about stress from your job?
It can increase the risk of heart disease, strokes, and diabetes.
What is technostress?
The feeling of anxiety or mental pressure due to overexposure to technology.
What is the 3rd stage reaction to chronic stress?
General adaptation syndrome (alarm resistance, exhaustion)
What hormone plays a critical role in long-term negative effects of stress?
Cortisol
Strategies that ego uses to reduce anxiety. Which distort reality and may increase self-deception known as..
Defense Mechanisms
Which nation has more stress-related illnesses?
America
What are the three types of conflict?
Approach-approach, approach-avoidance, avoidance-avoidance.
What is our body's tendency to maintain equilibrium?
Homeostasis
What is the type of stress that motivates you/encourages you to get things done?
Eustress
A stress reduction strategy based on developing a state of consciousness that attends to ongoing events in a receptive, nonjudgemental way
Mindfulness- based stress reduction
Can job stress contribute to suicide rates?
Yes
What is a hassel?
the small problems of daily living that may accumulate and may become major sources of stress.