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Health
Stress coping and well being
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
04/25/2011

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How is health psychology a union between medicine and psychology?
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Investigates the psychological factors related to wellness and illness, including the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical problems
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What is stress, how does it affect us, and how can we best cope with it?
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People’s response to events that threaten or challenge them
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The study of relationship between psychological factors the immune system and the brain.
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Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
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A natural disaster, a stressor that affect many people at once is called?
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Cataclysmics event
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and major life events such as a family death, job loss or a positive such as marriage are consider?
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Personal stressors
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Minor irritations of life that we face again and again, such standing in the line at the grocery store, or being stuck in traffic consider?
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Daily Hassles
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A stressful event that is long lasting, maybe re-experience in vivid flashback or in a dream is consider?
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Posttramic stressa disorder
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Once refered as(psychosomatic disorders)
Actual medical problems that are influenced by an interaction of psychological, emotional, and physical difficulties
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Psychophysiological Disorders
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Hans Selye a physiological response to stress follows the same set pattern regardless of the cause of stress
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(GAS) general adapation syndrom
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people becoming aware of presnce stressor, biologically the nervous system energize to cope is what stage?
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alarm and mobilization
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The way a person prepare to fight with a stressor.
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resistance
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Ability to adaptto stress diminishes, systoms appear.
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exhaustion
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Efforts to control, reduce, or learn to tolerate the threats that lead to stress
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Coping with Stress
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Managing emotions in the face of stress, seeking to change the way one feels about or perceives a problem
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Emotion-focused coping
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Attempting to modify the stressful problem or source of stress
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Problem-focused coping
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Occurs when people conclude that unpleasant or aversive stimuli cannot be controlled
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Learned Helplessness
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Cluster of behaviors involving hostility, competitiveness, time urgency, and feeling driven, men who display this type pattern devolpe cononary heart disease and suffer more fatal heart attacks.
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Type A behavior patteren
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