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Chapter 13
Stress, Coping, and Health
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Psychology
12th Grade
04/20/2011

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Biopsychosocial Model
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Says that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors.
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Health Psychology
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A type of psychology that is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness.
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Stress
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Any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one's well-being and that thereby tax one's coping abilities.
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Acute Stressors
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Stressors that are threatening events that have a relatively short duration and a clear endpoint.
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Chronic Stressors
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Stressors that are threatening events that have a relatively long duration and no readily apparent time limit.
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Frustration
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It occurs in any situation in which the pursuit of some goal is thwarted.
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Conflict
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It occurs when two or more incompatible motivations or behavioral impulses compete for expression.
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Approach-Approach Conflict
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A type of conflict where are choice must be made between two attractive goals.
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Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
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A type of conflict where a choice must be made between two unattractive goals.
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Approach-Avoidance Conflict
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A type of conflict where a choice must be made about whether to pursue a single goal that has both attractive and unattractive aspects.
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Life Changes
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Any significant alterations in one's living circumstances that require readjustment.
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Pressure
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Expectations or demands on one to behave in a certain way.
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Fight-or-Flight Response
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A physicological reaction to threat in which the autonomic nervous system mobilizes the organism for attacking or fleeing.
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General Adaption Syndrome
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A model of the body's stress response, consisting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
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Coping
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Active efforts to master, reduce, or tolarate the demands created by stress.
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Learned Helplessness
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Passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events.
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Aggression
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Any behavior that is intended to hurt someone, either physically or verbally.
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Cartharsis
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A release of emotional tension.
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Internet Addiction
Definition
When someone spends an inordinate amount of time on the Internet and the inability to control online use.
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Defense Mechanisms
Definition
Largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt.
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Constructive Coping
Definition
The healthful efforts that people make to deal with stressful events.
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Burnout
Definition
Physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and a lowered sense of self-efficacy that can be brought on gradually by chronic work-related stress.
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Psychosomatic Diseases
Definition
Genuine physical ailments that were thought to be caused in part by stress and other psychological factors.
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Type A Personality
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A type of personality that includes: A strong competitive orientation, impatience and time urgency, and anger and hostility.
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Type B Personality
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A type of personality with relatively relaxed, patient, easygoing, amicable behavior.
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Immune Response
Definition
The body's defensive reaction to invasion by bacteria, viral agents, or other foreign substances.
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Social Support
Definition
Various types of aid and succor provided by members of one's social networks.
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Optimism
Definition
A general tendency to expect good outcomes.
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Definition
A disorder in which the immune system is gradually weakened and eventually disabled by the human immunodefiency virus (HIV).
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Catastrophic Thinking
Definition
Unrealistic pessimistic appraisals of stress that exagerate the magnitude of one's problems.
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Richard Lazarus
Definition
He developed the Hassle Scale.
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Hans Selye
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He formulated a theory of stress reactions called the General Adaption Syndrome.
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Albert Ellis
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He developed the term "Catastrophic Thinking".
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Shelly Taylor
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She studied the correlation between "positive illusions" and mental health.
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Martin Seligman
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He studied how people explain bad events in their lives and came up with the pessimistic and optimistic explanatory styles.
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Robin DiMatteo
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She studied patient behavior, including how patients viewed their symptoms.
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