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Hans selye
is a canadian endocrinologist who was a pioneer in stress research
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cognitive appraisal
our physical and psychological reactions to stressors depend somewhat on how we theink about such stressors
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burn out
is when there exists an increasingly intense pattern of physical and pyschological dysfunction in responce to stress
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figt or flight syndome
is the physical respnce to stressors including rapid breathing, increased hr, and shakiness
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Researchers have found that people under stress are more likely to have
a poor functioning immune system
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stressors produce a variey of physiological respnces that begin
in the brain and spread to the rest of the body
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The corticosteroids
hormones are released by the adreanal cortex and play a central rold in the bodys responce to long term stressors
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the GAS occurs in three stages
alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
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manage stressors include
problem and emotion focussed techniques
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hans seyle exposed lab animals to various stressors and found that
patterns of physiological arousal were similar, regardless of the type of stress
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our body becomes more alert during the
resistance stage of GAS
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type a personality is a perdictor of
coronary heart disease
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psychoneuroimmunology
studides the interation between stress and the immune system
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proactive coping is
anticipation stressful events and taking advance steps to avoid them.
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stress hormones
adrenalin, norepinephrine, and glucocoricoids
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stressful life events
are positively correlated with illnes
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the leval of stress created by a life event is determined by
the extent to which the life event causes some to adjust
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cognitive appraisal refers to
a perception or evaluation of the meaning of an event
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