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18 Cards in this Set
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STress
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Physiological&Psychological response to a condition that threatens and challenges and requires adaptation or adjustment
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SRRS
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Social Readjustment Rating Scale
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Approach-Approach
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Having to choose between two things you like
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Approach-Avoidance
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Drawn to and repeled at the same time by something with both desired and negative features
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Avoidance-Avoidance
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Having to choose between two undesiredable choices
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Workplace Stressors
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Workload-2 much 2 little
Clarity of job description Physical Variable-temp,noise Job Status-low pay low status Acountibility-responsible for well being of others Task Variety-To function well,people need task variety Human Contact-Some have none-some too much Physical Challenge-requires 2 much or 2 little physical demands Menatl Challenge-Jobs that tax people beyond their mental capability,too little challenge is also frustrating |
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Racism and STress
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Being a member of a minority group in a major culture
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Flight or Fight
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Response in which sympathetic nervous system and endocrine glands prepare the body to fight or flee
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General Adaptation Syndrome(GAS)(3) A.R.E.
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Alarm Stage
Resistance Stage Exhaustion Stage |
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Alarm Stage
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1st stage
Person experiences burst of energy that aids in dealing w/ stressful situations |
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Resistance Stage
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2ND stage
Intense physiological efforts to resist or adapt to stressor |
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Exhaustion Stage
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3RD stage
Organisms fails its efforts to resist stressor |
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Lazarus's Cognitive Theory
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Primary Appraisal:Evaluation of the meaning and signifigance of a potentially stressful event according how it will affect one's well being
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Lazarus's Cognitive Theory
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Secondary Appraisal:Evaluation of one's coping resources prior to deciding how to deal w/ a strssful event
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Stress and Health(3)
S.R.I. |
Sources of Stress
Response to Stress Impact of Stress on health and life |
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Biomedical
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Explains illness soley in terms of biological factors
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Biophychosocial
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Focuses on health and illness
holds that both are determined by combo of pyschological and social factors |
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Personal Factors
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Hardiness
Social suport Drinking Smoking Excercise |
