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health psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| health psychologist | study health, illness, stress |
| stress | stimulus that activates fight or flight response -leads to hypertension, headaches, and immune suppression |
| stressors | something that causes a state of strain or tension -eustress -debilitating |
| physiological issues of stress | headaches, muscle tension and pain, heart disease, heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke |
| eustress | positive/ motivating |
| debilitating | negative/ distress |
| types of stressors | traumatic, daily hassles |
| traumatic | ACES (adverse childhood experiences) |
| daily hassles | everyday annoyances |
| General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | your body's way of coping with stress in 3 stages -alarm -resistance -exhaustion |
| alarm | detect stress, fight-flight-freeze response |
| resistance | arousal remains, try and cope |
| exhaustion | resources are depleted, leads to fatiuge, burnout, decrease immunity |
| significant life changes | major transitions (graduations, marriage, death of loved one) |
| fight-flight-freeze response | body's way of facing any perceived threat aggresively |
| tend-and-befriend theory | people come together for protection -tend -befriend -females |
| tend | nurturing and caring for those in need (rather than withdrawing) |
| befriend | social support, collaboration |
| coping strategies | -problem-focused coping -emotion-focused coping |
| problem-focused coping | change behavior or situation, take steps to resolve stress |
| emotion-focused coping | control or replace the negative emotional response (deep breathing, meditation/prayers, medication) |
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