front 1 Health Psychology | back 1 Subfield of psychology concerned with ways psychological factors influence the causes and treatment of physical illness and the maintenance of health |
front 2 Stressors (Stimulus) | back 2 Specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten the person’s well-being |
front 3 Stress (response to stressor) | back 3 Physical and psychological response to internal or external stressors |
front 4 Chronic Stress | back 4 Sources of stress that occur continuously or repeatedly |
front 5 Sense of Control and Stress | back 5 A significant part of stress management is control of the mind. |
front 6 Fight-or-flight Response | back 6 Emotional and physiological |
front 7 Alarm | back 7 Rapid mobilization (rapid breathing, increased heart, sweating, uneasy stomach etc. |
front 8 Resistance | back 8 Adaption and coping (body settles in to resist stressor on a long term basis if stressor persist |
front 9 Exhaustion | back 9 Collapse (weaken immune system, heart and blood vessel damage, signs physical wear – costly!!!!!!) |
front 10 “Type A” People and Stress | back 10 Tendency toward easily aroused hostility, impatience, a sense of time urgency, and competitive achievement strivings |
front 11 Primary Appraisal | back 11 Interpretation of stimulus as stressful |
front 12 Secondary Appraisal | back 12 Determination of whether the |
front 13 A challenge vs. a threat | back 13 Stressor you feel fairly confident you can control vs Stressor you believe that might not be overcome |
front 14 Burnout | back 14 A state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion created by long-term involvement in an emotionally demanding situation and accompanied by lowered performance and motivation |
front 15 Burnout and the helping profession | back 15 because of the high demands placed on employees |
front 16 Repressive Coping | back 16 Avoiding situations or thoughts that are reminders of a stressor and maintaining an artificially positive viewpoint |
front 17 Rational Coping | back 17 Facing a stressor and working to overcome it |
front 18 Reframing | back 18 Finding a new or creative way to |
front 19 Tend-and-befriend (Women) | back 19 Tend to other people and support other people. Tend to bond together. |
front 20 Oxytocin | back 20 triggers social responses: a |
front 21 Fight-or-flight (Men) | back 21 (more likely to isolate) |
front 22 Humor and Stress | back 22 Humor can help with stress coping. Reduce sensitivity to pain and stress. Reduce time to calm down after stressful event |
front 23 Optimists | back 23 Presence of positive future expectancies predict |
front 24 Self-regulation | back 24 Exercise of voluntary control over the self to bring the self into line with preferred standards; willpower |
front 25 Anger and hostility and Heart Disease | back 25 increase the risk of developing heart disease. |
front 26 Consuming Alcohol and Unprotected Sex | back 26 Avoiding sexual risks is difficult because of the illusion of
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front 27 Persistence and Quitting Smoking | back 27 causes 80% of lung cancers |