Name that Stressor
Losing a parent or loved one.
What is a Major Life Event
Distributing your studying
What is Preventative/Proactive
Define Stress
What is a negative state in response to something (stressor) you perceive as adverse (unfavorable)
Your perception of a stressor can occur consciously or unconsciously
What is True
Discovered that brief or acute stress doesn't usually cause you to develop stress-related illnesses?
Who is Walter Cannon
Getting bullied at school
What is Social-Cultural
Exercise – jogging, yoga, swimming, etc.
What is Behavioral/Physical
What is a stress-related illness?
What is Any illness brought on by stress or the production of stress hormones or the exacerbation of preexisting medical conditions due to heightening stress
Chronic or prolonged stress becomes toxic at any age
True
Discovered that chronic, ongoing, or prolonged stress can cause you to develop stress-related illnesses?
Who is Hans Selye
Graduating from college
What is a Major Life Event
Anything you do to deal with your feelings
What is Expressive/Emotive
Define Acculturative stress?
What is specific Social-cultural stress when in a foreign culture (i.e., culture shock) that can put you at "high risk" for stress-related illness
The duration of stress determines the effects on your health
What is True- brief/acute stress doesn't usually make you sick but prolonged/chronic stress does
Individual Perception is key
Richard Lazarus
Having to clean up after your kids
What is a Daily Hassle
Eating “comfort food” (junk food), using caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs
What is Unhealthy/masking techniques
Explain Lazarus's Appraisal Model
What is a model or theory of stress states that an individual's perception of a situation causes stress rather than the situation itself. How one Perceives the stressor and If one can Cope
There is a positive correlation between practicing coping skills and health
For every 1 year that a mother takes care of a chronically sick child, it ages her 6 biological years of life
Who is Dr. Robert Sapolsky
A child living in an abusive home
What is Social-Cultural
Practicing Mindfulness and Meditation
What is Cognitive/Psychological
What are telomeres, and how does chronic stress affect them?
Personality is primarily genetic so you can inherit a disposition for stress even if the pregnancy wasn't stressful
What is True
Discovered that the length of telomeres decreases faster from the exposure to chronic/prolonged stress
Who is Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn