| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Health Psychology | A feild in which psychologuts conduct and apply research aimed at promoting human health and preventing illness. |
| Behavioral Medicine | Psycholgists pursue a goals in cooperation with other fields; such as nursing and public health.. |
| Stress | Process of adjusting to circumstances that disrupt, or threaten to disrupt a person equilibrium |
| Stressors | Events or situations to which people must adjust. |
| Stress Mediators | Enviorments,people and methods people are affected by to dampen a stessors effect. |
| Life-Change Units | Amount of change and demand for adjustment associated with an event. |
| Social Readjustment Rating Scale | A basic scale created by Holmes and Rache to measure the amount of stress. |
| LES Life Experience Survey | Goes beyond SRRS measures stress in a persons life as well as perceptions. |
| Fight-or-Flight Syndrome | A general physical rsponse to stressors: increase sweat,heartbeat and shakiness |
| General Adaption Syndrome | A sequence of physical responses to any stressor. Alarm, Resistance and Exhaustion |
| Sympathoadrenomedullary | A system of organs and glands that are used in the alarm system. |
| Catecholamines | Adrenal glands secerets this to activate various organs that results in a phyiscal stress response |
| Pituitary-Adrenocortical System | A system in which the hypothalmus stimulates the pitutary gland in the brain. |
| Dieases Of Adaption | Illnesses that are caused or worsened by stressors. |
| Psychobiological Models | Combination of psychological and biological beilfs involving the regulation and production of stressors. |
| Ruminative Thinking | Recuuring intrusion of thoughts about stressful events. |
| Catastrophizing | Dwelling on and overempashizing potential consequences of negative events. |
| Mental Sets | Learned by not always effective approaches to problems |
| Functional Fixedness | Tendency to use objects for one purpose. |
| Burnout | Gradual intenseifying pattern of physical,psychological and behavioral dysfunction in response to a continous flow of stressors. |
| PTSD | A pattern od adverse und disruptive reactions following a traumatic event. |
| Diathesis Stress Model | Certain people are predisposed to certain conditions; whether or not they actually display them depends on intensity frequency etc. |
| Problem Focused Coping | Involves effort to alter or eliminate a source of emotional consequence. |
| Emotion Focused Coping | Involves regulation of negative emotional consequences. |
| Social Support Network | Friends and family whom you can depend on for support. |
| Dispoditional Opitimism | beilf or expectation that things will work out positively. |
| Psychoneuroimmunology | Interaction of Psychological,social,behavioral,neural,hormonal and immune system processes that affect the body's defense against disease. |
| Anti-Bodies | Cirulating proteins that bind to specfic toxins and foreign cells to deactivate them. |
| Macrophage | engulf foreign cells and digest them in a process called phagocytosis |
| Health promotion | Eliminating behaviors that risk ones health. |
| Self Efficay | beilf that one is able to perform a behavior |
| Cognitive Reconstruction | Belive that stressors are challenges rather than threats. |
| behavioral coping stratgies | chaning behaviors so that stressors are minimized. |
| physical coping stratgies | altering physical responses to stress. |
Combine with other sets
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