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22 Cards in this Set
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The fight-or-flight response involves which systems? |
1. The sympathetic nervous system 2. The endocrine system |
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According to Lazarus's model, the subjective experience of stress is a result of...
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the balance between primary and secondary appraisal.
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In the study of York University students, Friedlander et al. concluded that better adjustment of students was predicted by...
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increased social support from friends.
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People feel stress when they believe that they don't have enough... |
Time, money, or effort available to them. |
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What changes does stress produce? |
1. emotional 2. cognitive 3. physiological 4. adverse performance |
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What is general adaption syndrome? |
Reactions to stress go through 3 stages: 1. Alarm 2. Resistance 3. Exhaustion |
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Whether an event is stressful or not depends on what? |
How it is appraised.
Negative, uncontrollable or unpredictable, ambiguous, overwhelming, or threatening to central life tasks events usually produce stress. |
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What are the after-effects of severe stressors? |
1. persistent physiological arousal 2. psychological distress 3. reduced task performance 4. eventual declines in cognitive ability |
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Which populations are particularly vulnerable to the effects of stress? |
1. Children 2. The elderly 3. The poor |
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What kind of events are likely to produce stress? |
Events that force a person to make a change |
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What is the acute stress paradigm? |
The finding that when people are induced to perform stressful tasks, they show short-term psychological distress, sympathetic activation, and neuroendocrine responses.
Used to test which events people find stressful. |
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What is an allostatic load? |
Physiological efforts by the body to meet the demands of stress; allostasis. |
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What factors does the development of chronic strain depend on? |
1. type of stressor 2. subjective experience of stress |
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What is person-environment fit? |
A person's assessment of whether their resources are sufficient to meet the demands of their environment |
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What is primary appraisal? |
attempting to determine the meaning of an event in a new or changing environment |
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What is secondary appraisal? |
The assessment of one's coping abilities in regards to a stressful event |
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What is reactivity? |
The degree of change that occurs in autonomic, neuroendocrine and/or immune responses as a result of stress. |
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What is role conflict? |
When a person receives conflicting information about work tasks or standards. |
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What is role ambiguity? |
Not having a clear idea of what needs to be done, or the standards of evaluation of work. |
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Define stress |
Stress is a negative emotional experience accompanied by predictable biochemical, physiological, cognitive, and behavioural changes that aim to either alter or adapt to a stressful event |
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What is the tend-and-befriend theory of stress? |
in addition to fight-or-flight responses, humans react to stress through social and nurturing behaviors. |
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What is work-life balance? |
Attempting to combine multiple roles simultaneously |
