Stress Vocab
What is BMI?
Body Mass Index
In what 3 ways can exercise affect your overall health?
Brain health, help manage weight, reduce the risk of disease.
What is resilience?
The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties.
Is stress a hormonal response from the body?
What is an STI?
Sexually Transmitted Infection.
When might you use a Biopsychosocial model?
Biopsychosocial model is mostly used in chronic pain, with the view that the pain is a psychophysiological behaviour pattern that cannot be categorised into biological, psychological, or social factors alone.
What is positive psychology?
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of human flourishing, and an applied approach to optimal functioning.
Are you more likely to get sick from being stressed?
yes
What are daily hassles?
Minor, day-to-day stressors.
What role do social and genetic factors play in obesity?
Genetic factors play only a small part in your propensity to gain weight and become obese. However, obesity does tend to run in families. This is often due to environment. People who live together and eat together often learn the same eating habits and engage in similar lifestyles.
Emotion-focused coping vs Problem-focused coping
Problem-focused coping is a technique in which an individual addresses a problem directly as a way to eliminate it. While Emotion-focused coping refers to using skills for processing and dealing with feelings that arise due to stressful situations.
What type of wrold view can make you live longer?
Optomistic world view.
What is tend-and-befriend response?
It refers to protection of offspring and seeking out their social group for mutual defense.
Human Papillomavirus or HPV
What is the topic between type A and type B behavior?
People with Type A personality traits are aggressive, ambitious, controlling, highly competitive, preoccupied with status, workaholics, hostile, and lack patience. People with Type B personality traits are relaxed, less stressed, flexible, emotional and expressive, and have a laid-back attitude.
How much wattage dos your operate at?
12-25 watts
What is general adaptation syndrome and what are the three stages?
Describes the physiologic changes your body goes through as it responds to stress. The Three stages are Alarm, Resistance, and exhaustion.
What is the Difference Between Western Medicine and Alternative Medicine?
Alternative practices focus on stimulating the body’s ability to heal itself via energy alignment, herbal supplementation, and other balancing techniques. Conversely, western medicine focuses on symptom-specific treatment, typically with pharmacological or invasive methods to remove the offending agent.
What is the difference between a primary appraisal and a secondary appraisal?
Primary appraisal refers to the individuals' evaluation of the situation in terms of its potential for anticipated harm or gain. Secondary appraisal refers to the individuals' evaluations to cope with the stressor.
Where dose the the trem stress come from?
stress was borrowed from the field of physics by one of the fathers of stress research Hans Selye. In physics, stress describes the force that produces strain on a physical body