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psychology of stress
unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Homeostasis | Cannon: the biological process that enables an organism to adapt to life's demands |
| Fight or Flight | Cannon: the body's physiological activation response when it prepares to fight off or flee from a threat |
| General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | Selye. 3 stage mode of the effects of chronic stress. 1) alarm stage 2) resistance stage 3)exhaustion stage -physical reaction |
| Distress | Selye: negative stress |
| Eustress | Selye: positive Stress |
| Stress | Selye: nonspecific responses the body makes to demands |
| Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) | Holmes and Rahe: measures life change events |
| Appraisal | Lazarus: Making a judgement about the relative significance of an event |
| Core Relational Meaning | The emotional response we experience based on the appraisal we give to a situation |
| Biopsychosocial model | model of health that assumes health is a product of biological, psychological and social influences |
| Salutogenic Model | Antonovsky: Health resides on a continuum from an entropic end to a salutary end, how one manages stress can move a person toward either end of the continuum |
| Generalized Resistance Resources (GSS) | Resources that enable us to resist entropy |
| Sense of Coherence(SOC) | one's worldview, comprised of comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness |
| Comprehensibility | the degree to which we can make cognitive sense of the stimuli we perceive |
| Manageability | our ability to access internal and external coping resources and use them when we need them |
| Meaningfulness | our ability to emotionally make sense of demands and to perceive these demands as worthwhile investments of our energy as challenges rather than burdens -most impt |
| Allostatic Load | the cost the organism pays when subjected to chronic stressors |
| Diathesis-stress model | a unique genetically predetermined weak organ or organ system predetermined to breakdown due to chronic stress |
| Primary Appraisal | a judgement about the relative significance of an event regarding its potential benefit or harm-loss. The situation can be irrelevant, benign-positive or stressful |
| Secondary Appraisal | the judgement about how well one can deal or cope with a given stressful situation |
| Reappraisal | changing the meaning of an event to reduce stress reactions |
| Harm loss appraisal | past or present oriented |
| Threat appraisal | future oriented |
| Challenge appraisal | has potential for personal gain or growth |
| Self Efficacy | Bandura: the belief in one's abilities and skills to bring about a successful outcome in a given situation. Outcome expectation and efficacy expectation |
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