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The Sam System
sympathetic part of autonomic nervous system is activated increasing hr, bp, and hormone levels.
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GAS
general adaptation syndrom
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GAS phases
alarm reaction, resistance, and the exhaustion phase
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Stress could lead to cancer becuase
the immune system is surpressed by stress
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cognitive appraisal
two steps: primary and secondary.
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emotion- focused coping
changing ones perceptions of stressful situations
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problem focused coping
deals directly with the situation or factors to ruduce or eliminate the problem.
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A canadian endocrinologist who researched stress
hans seyle
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Our physical and psychological reactions to stressors depends on how we thing about each stressor
cognitive appraisal
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what happens whenIncreasingly intense pattern of physical and psycological dysfunction in response to a continuos flow of stressors?
burn out
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The physical responces to stressors including rapid breathing, increased hr, shakiness is know as
fight or flight syndrome
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Researchers have found that people under stress are more likely than less stressedd people to have a poor..
immune system
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Stressors produce a cariety of physicological responces that begin in the
brain and spread throughout the body
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corticosteroids
hormones are released by the adreanal cortex and play a central role in the bodys response to long term stressors
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Two ways to manage impact of stressors are
problem and emotion focused methods
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Our body is most alert and sensitive in the
resistance stage
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psychoneuroimmunology studies
the interatction between stress on the one hand and immune, endocrine, and nercous system activity on the other.
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The term for anticipating stressful events and taking advance steps to avoid them is
proactive coping
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Stress hormones include
- adrenalin, norepinephrine, glucocoticoids.
- not insulin
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Stressful life events
are positively correlated with illness
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The level of stress created by a life event is determined by
the extent to which the life event causes someone to adjust
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the cognitive appraisal refers to
a perception or evaluation of the meaning of an event
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