AP Psych Unit 5

Health psychology

explores impact of psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors on heath and wellness

psychoneuoimmuniology

psychological, neural, and endocrine processes effecting our immune system

Distress

Negative stress, bad

Eustress

Positive stress, stress that benefits us

Stressors

anything perceived as challenging

Adaptation

change in response to a stressor

Approach and avoidance motives

drive to move towards (approach) or away from (avoid) a stimulus

Approach-Approach

Choosing between 2 things you like, (Picking 2 menu items or 2 colleges you like)

Avoidance-Avoidance

Picking between 2 things you don’t want to do, (picking between 2 chores) you wait to procrastinate

Approach-Avoidance

one event/goal has attractive and unattractive features (Offered a job for more money but have a longer commute)

Multiple Approach-avoidance

chose between two or more things, each having desirable and undesirable features, (picking between 2 colleges)

General Adaption Syndrome (GAS)

the bod’s adaptive response to stress in 3 phrases, (1. Alarm 2. Resistance 3. Exhaustion)

Alarm (GAS)

Phase 1, disrupts homeostasis, your nervous system is activated and you feel shock

Resistance (GAS)

body fights back to the stress, temperature, blood pressure, respiration remain high, adrenal glands pump adrenaline and cortisol

Exhaustion (GAS)

rest allowed enhanced adaptation, failure to rest causes injury, illness, or failure to adapt later

Tend-and-befriend response

under stress (mostly women) people start to nurture themselves and others by bonding and seeking support from others

Coronary Heart Disease

clogging of vessels that nourish the heart muscles, Leading cause of death in very developed countries

Coping

alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods

Emotion-focused coping

attempt to avoid stressors, but does not solve the issue (watching a movie instead of studying)

Problem-focused coping

associated with greater stress reduction, feeling more in control (Procrastinating but finishing)

Personal control

sense of controlling our environment, rather than helpless feeling

Learned helplessness

the hopeless and passive resignation and animal or person learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events

External locus of control

outside factors that affect our lives (due to luck or fate)

Internal locus of control

we direct our own fate, correlated with achievement and health (Free will)