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DC Psych Ch10
Stress, health, and human flourishing
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stress | the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as challenging or threatening |
| General adaptation syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion |
| Alarm reaction | GAS Phase 1: Sympathetic nervous system activates, mobilizes resources |
| Resistance | GAS Phase 2: Resources mobilized, ready to resist trauma/fight back, full engagement |
| Exhaustion | GAS Phase 3: Reserves depleted, more vulnerable to illness and collapse |
| Catastrophes | large-scale disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, wars, wildfires, terrorist attacks, etc.) |
| Significant life changes | Changes that have a large impact on your life (graduating, marriage, leaving home, death of a loved one, student debt, divorce, etc.) |
| Daily hassles | Problems we face every day that stress us out (social stress, annoying housemates, incessant interruptions, daily chores, etc.) |
| Tend and befriend | providing support for and growing bonds with others as a way of coping with stress (especially common in women) |
| Approach and avoidance motives | The drive to move toward (approach) or away from (avoid) a stimulus |
| Approach-approach conflict | Two attractive but incompatible goals pull (tacos or pizza?) |
| Avoidance-avoidance conflict | Two undesirable alternatives (study or get a bad grade?) |
| Approach-avoidance conflict | Simultaneously attracted and repelled (you like how your job pays, but dislike the long commute) |
| Internal locus of control | people believe they control their own fate |
| External locus of control | people believe external forces control their fate |
| Problem-focused coping | trying to reduce stress directly, by changing the stressor or the way we interact with it |
| Emotion-focused coping | trying to reduce stress by avoiding/ignoring a stressor and tending to our emotional needs related to the stress reaction |
| Learned helplessness | hopelessness/passive resignation humans and animals learn when unable to avoid repeated aversive events |
| Self-control | ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long-term rewards |
| Optimism | Anticipation of positive outcomes; people expect the best and expect their efforts to lead to good things |
| Mindful meditation | Reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner |
| Faith factor | Religiously active people tend to live longer than non-religious people, by a fairly large percent |
| Social support | People (especially the religiously active) who have a strong social support network tend to live longer, happier lives |
| Aerobic exercise | sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; helps reduce depression and anxiety |
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