Exploring Psychology Chapter 11 Stress, Health, And Human Flourishing

Phase 3 Exhaustion

You become more vulnerable to illness or even in extreme cases collapse and death.

Coping

Alleviating stress using emotional cognitive or behavioral methods.

Phase 1 Alarm reaction

As your sympathetic nervous system is suddenly activated. Your heart rate zooms. Blood is diverted to your skeletal muscles. You feel the faintness of shock. With your resources mobilized, you are now ready to fight back.

Emotional focused coping

Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction.

Problem-focused coping

Attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or they way we interact with that stressor.

Catastrophes

Catastrophes are unpredictable large scale events such as earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and storms. Damage to emotional and physical health can be significant.

Daily hassles and social stress

Events do not have to remake our lives to cause stress. It can come from Spotty phone connections, aggravating housemates, long lines, too many things to do, email and text spam.

Type A

Friedman and rosenman's term for competitive hard driving impatient verbally aggressive and anger prone people.

Type B

Friedman and rosenman's term for easing relaxed people.

Mindfulness meditation

A reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner

Health psychology

A sub field of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine.

Macrophages(big eaters)

Identify, pursue, and ingest harmful invaders and worn out cells.

Significant life changes

Life transitions, leaving homes, becoming divorced, losing a job, having a loved one die are often keenly felt. Even happy events such as getting married or graduating college can be stressful life transitions.

B lymphocytes (white blood cells)

Mature in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections.

T lymphocytes (white blood cells)

Mature in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances.

Adaptation level phenomenon

Our tendency to form judgements ( of sounds of lights of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.

Feel-good , Do-good phenomenon

People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.

Stress resistance phases

Phases 1.Alarm reaction (mobilize resources) Phase 2. Resistance(cope with stressor) Phase 3. Exhaustion(reserves depleted).

Natural killer cells ( NK cells )

Pursue diseased cells such as those infected by viruses or cancer.

Subjective well being

Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used alone with measures of objective well being . to alleviate peoples quality of life

General adaptation syndrome ( GAS )

Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Stressors- Things that push our buttons

Stressors fall into three main types: Catastrophes, Significant life changes, and Daily hassles. All can be toxic.

Aerobic exercise

Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness may also alleviate depression and anxiety.

Self control

The ability to control impulses and delay short term gratification for greater long term rewards.

Coronary heart disease

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries.

Learned helplessness

The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or person learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.

External locus of control

The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate.

Relative deprivation

The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself.

Internal locus of control

The perception that we control our own fate.

Stress

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

Positive psychology

The scientific study of human flourishing with the goals of discovering and prompting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive.

Psychoneuroimmunology

The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.

Tend and befriend

Under stress people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend).

Phase 2 Resistance

Your temperature, blood pressure, and respiration remain high. Your adrenal glands pump hormones into your bloodstream. Your are fully engaged, summoning all your responses to meet the challenge. As times passes with no relief from stress, your body's reserves dwindle.