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| occurs when a situation overwhelms a persons ability to meet the demands of the situation |
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| the focus on situations that cause stress is known as the stimulus view of stress |
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| focused on the physiological changes that occur when someone encounters an excessively challenging situation |
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| stress in a particular relationship between people and the situations in which they found themselves |
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| 2 major categories of stressors |
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major life events
daily hassles |
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| an assessment of what a situation means to us, outcome determines whether an emotional response might occur |
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| when we find ourselves in a stressful situation, we try to figure out what to do about the situation, how to resolve it, or how to make the unpleasant feeling go away |
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| consists of the major hormone releasing glands |
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| consists of all the neurons that serve the organs and glands (role in responses of stress & emotion) |
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refers to the hormonal systems involved in emotions and stress
(includes hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, and the adrenal glands) |
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| links the nervous system and parts of the endocrine system relevant to emotions |
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| releases hormones that play a role in stress response |
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| release several stress related hormones |
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| hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) |
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releases substances called releasing factors which tell the pituitary when to release various hormones
...(eventually releasing cortisol-the stress hormone that is produced by the body to mobilize the boy's energy resources during stressful situations) |
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| The General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) |
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| a generalized, nonspecific set of changes in the body that occur during extreme stress, consists of 3 stages |
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| stage 1 of GAS: alarm stage |
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| body's emergency response to an environmental threat, mobilizes the body resources to act |
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| stage 2 of GAS: resistance stage |
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| organism maintains efforts to fight off or manage the threat, takes a poll physically and psychologically by diverting resources from maintenance of normal body functions |
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| stage 3 of GAS: exhaustion stage |
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| resources for fighting off threats have been depleted and illness becomes much more likely |
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| the idea that unless we are being provoked by something, we are operating at a state of balance |
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| the body achieves stability through change, emphasizes that your body would respond in many ways |
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| profound effect on the hippocampus (plays a pivotal role in memory) |
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| refers to anything people do to deal with or manage stress or emotions |
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| involves strategies that aim to change the problem creating the stress |
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regulate the experience of distress
-reappraisal
-distancing
-escape avoidance
-seeking social support
-self control
-accepting responsibility |
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| way of coping with stress through writing or talking about the situation |
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| direct effective hypothesis states that this is beneficial to mental and physical health whether or not the person is under stress |
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| the idea that emotional factors can lead to the occurrence or worsening of illness |
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| physiological reactivity model |
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| examines how sustained physiological activation associated with the stress response can affect body systems in such a way as to increase the likelihood that illness or disease occur |
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| focuses on the behaviors in which people engage, such as diet, exercise, or substance abuse, that may make them more susceptible to illness or may enhance health |
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| examines the relationship among the brain, thought, feeling, endocrine changes, immune system functioning |
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