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Stress - Coggle Diagram
Stress
Stress diseases
Worsens Aids
Worsens Cancer
Worsens Heart disease
Hypertension
Smoking
Lack of exercise
Fatty diet
Personality traits
Type A
Reactive and competitive
Risk for heart disease
Type B
Relaxed slow to anger
Stress on heart disease
Stress will increase
What is it
Our body's way of assessing and responding to a challenging and threatening event
Stress reaction: our physical and emotional response to stress
Stressor is anything that leads to stress
Positive stressor: Desired stressor
Negative stressor: undesired stressor
Response to high stress
Withdrawl
Turn to antisocial behavior
Tend and befriend
Provide support and tend to one another
Better ideas
Problem focused coping
Emotion focused coping
Personal control
Optimism
Social support
Stress response system
Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis
Sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight)
Cortisol released from adrenal glands
General adaptation syndrome
Alarm stage
Upsets homeostasis
Resistance stage
Body fights back by adjusting to stress
Exhaustion stage
Rest permits enhanced adaptation
Types
Catastrophies
Significant life change
Daily hassles
Benefits
Motivates us to work
Primes us for later success
Rise to the challenge
Learned Healplessness
Passive resignation when faced with unavoidable situations
Martin Sligman and dog study
Shocking dogs to study learned helplessness
Seen in nursing homes and in school
Dangers
Emotional toll
Health decreases
Behavioral medicine (medicine + psychology)
Health psychology
Psychoneuroimuunology