🧠 STRESS BASICS
Two common sources of stress for college students
What is Exams and ALOT of assignments.?
Despite feeling productive, workers under time pressure experience a dramatic drop in this.
what is creativity ?
What is social support?
What is help and assistance received from others during stressful situations?
The term for events that cause a stress reaction.
What are stressors?
Two common Explanatory styles
What is Optimisim and Pessimism
This psychologist Developed the General Adaption Syndrome (GAS)
Who is is Hans Selye
Stress can suppress this system, increasing illness risk.
what is Immune System
How can religious beliefs help a person cope with stress?
what is giving people comfort, hope and strength during difficult times
What are the two explanatory styles?
Optimism and pessimism
which type of culture are people more likely to seek help from others?
what is Individualistic cultures
How does social support help reduce stress?
It provides comfort, advice, or help, making problems easier to manage
The two coping strategies are?
Problem focus and emotional focus coping
Initial "Fight or Flight" response in GAS
What is Alarm Stage?
What is Health Psychology?
Health psychology focuses on how our physical activities, psychological traits, and social relationships affect our overall health and rate of illnesses.
This common behavior might increase with stress and worsen heart disease risk
What is Overeating?
which type of culture do people tend to handle stress independently?
what is individualistic cultures
Catastrophic events can affect not only direct victims but also this group
Who are unborn children of affected mothers?
This Stage of GAS involves adapting to ongoing stress
What is Resistance?
A tool used to measure the amount of stress a person has experienced over a 12-month period based on major life events, each assigned a point value.
(Full Name unabbreviated)
What is The Social Readjustment Rating Scale?
This phrase describes a conflict where every available option has both good and bad aspects.
What is multiple approach-avoidance conflict?)
How can cognitive appraisal make stress harder to handle?
if an individual believes that the cause of stress is threatening or harmful to them
This condition is linked to stress and affects blood sugar regulation
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
These are the four typical responses to frustration.
What are persistence, aggression, displaced aggression, and withdrawal?
What is Yerkes-Dodson Law?
The Yerkes-Dodson law states that higher arousal is better for simpler tasks and lower arousal is better for more complex tasks.
In stress response, there are five typical personality types:=
Type A,B,C,D,H