Psych 104 ch 10

Significant life changes

10a: Leaving home, becoming divorced, having a loved one die, and even marrying the love of your life

General adaptation syndrome

10a: Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages-alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

Resilience

10d: The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma

Daily hassles

10a: Spotty cell phone connections, irritating housemates, long lines at the store, too many things to do, email and text spam, loud cell phone talkers, payday issues, housing problems, solo parenting, Poor health, perceived discrimination, and unreachable goals

Stress

10a: The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging

Stressors

10a: There are three main types: catastrophes, significant life changes, and daily hassles. They can increase our risk of disease and death

Tend and befriend response

10a: Under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others and bond with and seek support from others

Catastrophes

10a: Unpredictable large scale events, such as earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and storms

Macrophage

10b: "Big eater", identifies, traps, and destroys harmful invaders and worn out cells

T lymphocytes

10b: Attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances-even "good" ones, such as transplanted organs

Natural Killer cells

10b: Attack diseased cells (such as those infected by viruses or cancer)

Type A

10b: Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-working, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger prone people

Type B

10b: Friedman and Rosenman's term for easy-going, relaxed people

B lymphocytes

10b: Release anti-bodies that fight bacterial infections

Coronary heart disease

10b: The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in the United States and many other countries

Psychoneuroimmunology

10b: The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes combine to affect our immune system and health

Lymphocytes

10b: The two types of white blood cell's that are part of the body's immune system: B ___________ release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; T ___________ attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances

emotion-focused coping

10c: attempting to reduce stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction.

Problem-focused coping

10c: attempting to reduce stress directly—by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor

Personal Control

10c: our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.

Cope

10c: reducing stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.

Pessimists

10c: the anticipation of negative outcomes. Pessimists are people who expect the worst and doubt that their goals will be achieved.

Optimists

10c: the anticipation of positive outcomes. These are people who expect the best and expect their efforts to lead to good things.

Learned Helplessness

10c: the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or person learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.

External locus of control

10c: the perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate

Internal locus of control

10c: the perception that we control our own fate.

Mindfulness meditation

10d: Attending to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner

Feel good, do good phenomenon

10d: Our tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood

Adaptation level phenomenon

10d: Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our past experiences

Subjective well being

10d: Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to judge our quality of life

Aerobic exercis

10d: Sustained activity that increases heart and lung fitness; may also reduce depression and Anxiety

Relative deprivation

10d: The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves

Stress appraisal

10a learning curve: A woman, alone in a house, ignores the creaking sound she hears and experiences no stress. Another woman might hear the same sounds, suspect an intruder, and thus become alarmed. These different reactions illustrate the importance of ______ _________

Tend and befriend

10a learning curve: After a tornado ripped through a neighboring town, Jesse felt compelled to join relief efforts to help those affected by the damage. This response to stress is called ____ ___ ________

Stress

10a learning curve: The process of appraising an event as threatening is called...

General adaptation syndrome

10a learning curve: The second phase of the _______ __________ ________ is characterized by resistance

Fight or flight response

10a: An emergency response, including activity of the sympathetic nervous system, that mobilizes energy and activity for attacking or escaping a threat