Chapter 3: Stress and Health Psychology

Psych exam 3

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Stress
The body's nonspecific response to any demand made on it; physical and mental arousal to situations or events that we perceive as threatening or challenging.
Stressor
Trigger that prompts a stressful reaction.
Eustress
Pleasant or beneficial stressex: moderate exercise
Distress
Stress that is unpleasant or objectionable,ex: from chronic illness
Life change
Early stress researches Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe believed that any life change that required some adjustment in behavior or lifestyle could cause some degree of stress.
Cataclysmic event
Events such as terrorist attack, or single events like death or a birth. NOT ALL STRESSFULL SITUATIONS ARE THESE.
Chronic stressors
Such as a bad marriage, poor working conditions, or an intolerable political climate.
Job stress
Due to recent global economic meltdown, this has become pressing concern. It includes unemployment, keeping or changing jobs, job performance, etc.
Hassles
can pile up and become a major source of stress. Ex time pressures and financial concerns
Burnout
A result of persistent hassles, physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion occurs.
Frustration
Can cause stress, the more motivated we are, the more frustrated we are when our goals are blocked.
Conflict
When we are forced to make a choice between at least two incompatible alternatives.
Approach-approach conflict
Forced choice between two or more favorable alternatives. Either choice will have positive results; the requirement to choose is the source of stress.
Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Forced choice between alternatives that will have both desirable and undesirable results, which generally lead to a great deal of ambivalence.
Approach-avoidance conflict
Forced choice between alternatives that will have both desirable and undesirable results, which generally leads to a great deal of ambivalence.