AP Psych Ch 12 + Ch 4: Stress + Nature Vs Nurture

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Stress

The process in which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
Ex:That feeling when you have a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in 3 phases — Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion

Ex:When you choose if you want to challenge something or will determine how much energy you will put into staying afloat

Tend-and-befriend

Under stress, people (especially women), often provide support to others (tend) and bond with others and seek support from others (befriend)

Ex:When you’re spilling that hot goss with your friends (lore dropping)

Health Psychology

A subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contributions to behavioral medicine

Ex:Study of psych’s influence on physical health

Psychoneuroimmunology

The study of how psychological, neural, and endocine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health

Ex:Subfield of psych focusing on your thoughts/feelings (psycho), influences on the brain (neuro), which influences the endocrine system to effect your immune system (immun)

Coronary Heart Disease

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscles; the leading cause of death in many developed countries

Ex:Happens because of inflammation in the body

Type A

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people

Ex:Brandon Lee

Type B

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people

Ex:Wylan

Coping

Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods

Ex:Changing your mindset to better relieve stress (inhailing copium)

Problem-focused coping

Attempting to alleviate stress directly - by changing the stressor or by the way we interact with stressor

Ex:Changing your mindset from “im cooked” to “im locked”

Emotion Focused Coping

Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction

Ex:Ignoring our problems to focus on emotional needs

Personal Control

Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless

Ex:Im not trapped in here with you, you’re trapped in here with me ahh

Learned Helplessness

The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or person learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events

Ex:Basically coming to terms with a cannon event

External Locus of Control

The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate

Ex:God

Internal Locus of Control

The perception that we control our own fate

Ex:”The future is in the palm of my hand”

Self-control

The ability to control impulses and delay short-term gradification for greatrer long-term rewards

Ex:The marshmallow experiment with kids

Aerobic Exercise

Sustained exercise that increases heart and lungfitness; also helps alleviate depression and anxiety

Ex:Running, swimming, etc

Mindfulness Meditation

A reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner

Ex:Accepting a situation and moving on from it

Behavior Genetics

The study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior

Ex:Nature vs Nurture debate

Heredity

The genetic transfer of characteristics from parent to off spring (Not heritability)

Ex:If a kid is tall it’s because their parents are tall

Environment