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Chronic stress

Weiten Chapter 12

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Chapter 12: Stress, Coping, and Health The Relationship Between Stress and Disease Contagious diseases vs. chronic diseases Biopsychosocial model Health psychology Health promotion and maintenance Discovery of causation, prevention, and treatment Stress as an Everyday Event Major stressors vs. routine hassles Cumulative nature of stress Cognitive appraisals Major Types of Stress Frustration: blocked goal Conflict: incompatible motivations Approach-approach Avoidance-avoidance Approach-avoidance Change: having to adapt Social Readjustment Rating Scale Life Change Units Pressure Perform/conform Figure 12.2 Types of conflict Responding to Stress Emotionally Emotional responses Annoyance, anger, rage Apprehension, anxiety, fear Dejection, sadness, grief Positive emotions

Stress, Coping, and Health

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Grant Clay Period 3 11/11/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 13: Stress, Coping, and Health Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Biopsychosocial Model ? Physical Illness is caused by an interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Health Psychology ? How Psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Stress ? Any Circumstance that threatens or is perceived to threaten one?s well being and that thereby tax ones coping abilities. Stress has a Cumulative Nature. The Feeling of Stress depends upon how one interprets a situation. Acute Stressors ? Threatening Events that have a Relatively Short Duration and a clear Endpoint.
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