PSYCH 243 Study Guide - Final Guide: Learned Helplessness, Tension Headache, Allostatic Load
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Unwanted stress: hypostress: boredom, hyperstress: too much to do. Stress: events that produce strain on a person. Sources of stress: change, conflict, frustration, pressure, negative family models. Incorrect thinking/beliefs: self-imposed stress, irrational self-statements of fear and failure. Four types of conflicts: approach-avoidance, approach-approach, avoidance-avoidance, multiple approach-avoidance. Holmes-rahe social readjustment scale ranks events 12 (vacations)-100 (loss of life partner) Frustrations involve daily hassles, delays, discrimination, failure, lack of resources, and losses. Types of pressure: competition, time limitations, overload, and interpersonal relationships. Severity of stressor depends on number of stressor events, duration, predictability, how soon they will happen, meaningfulness, vulnerability, lifestyle, and previous experience with stressor. Control over stressors determines if you will bounce back with resiliency or develop learned helplessness. Psychophysiological disorders: disorders caused by stressor effects: gastrointestinal, respiratory, skin, musculoskeletal, reproductive, blood, and immune responses, vulnerability to h. pylori, migraine and muscle contraction headaches, hypertension.
