Stress and Health: Understanding the Effects and Coping Strategies

1. Warm Up 1.Explain the Drive Reduction Theory 2.Explain the Theory of Optimal Arousal 3.What is self-actualization? 4.Do the following items make you feel full or hungry a Lateral hypothalamus b Ventromedial hypothalamus c. leptin d. Ghrelin e. PYY f. Orexin 5. What is Basal Metabolic Rate? 6.What is Set Point? 7. Why is Alfred Kinsey important? 8. What is the sexual response cycle? 9. What are some of the possible causes of homosexuality • How do task and social leadership differ • Has does Theory X differ from Theory Y

2. Friday • Test-12,13,14 • Notebook Check • All notes complete • Outline for chapters 12,13 • Office worksheet • No Article • Short answers for 12,13,14

3. Chapter 14 pt. 1: Stress and Health

4. Studying the Effects of Stress on Health • Behavioral Medicine: field that combines knowledge of biomedical perspective and behavioral perspective to study and treat health and illness. Term is often used interchangeably with Psychiatry. • Health Psychology:subfield of psychology that is used to contribute to behavioral medicine. Looks at psychological causes of illness and stress (cognitive, environment, social, biological, etc.)

5. Percentage U.S.deaths Percentage U.S.deaths 30 20 10 0 30 20 10 0 Tuber- culosis Pneu- monia Diarrhea/ enteritis Heart disease Cancer Strokes Heart disease Chronic lung disease 1991 1900 Killers of Yesterday and Today

6. What is Stress? • Stressis the process by which we respond to events, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. • Stressors:are the events/things that stress us out!

7. Stressors Catastrophes Life changes Hassles Intervening factors Appraisal Perceived control Personality Social support Coping behaviors Stress reactions Physiological Emotional Behavioral Stress Is Not Caused By the Event Itself! • Cognition affects how we react and appraise an external event which affects how we respond.

8. Response Appraisal Threat (“Yikes! This is beyond me!”) Panic, freeze up Stressful event (tough math test) Challenge (“I’ve got to apply all I know”) Aroused, focused Stress Can Be Harmful or Helpful Depending on Your Appraisal

9. Yerkes-Dodson Principle of Arousal(Not In the Book) • Yerkes-Dodson Principle of Arousal:general tasks are performed best with a medium amount of stress/arousal.

10. Stress Conflicts (Not in the Book) • Approach-Approach Conflict: stressful tension state that arises as a result of an attraction toward two attractive goals. Should I go to Harvard or Yale?

11. Stress Conflicts (Not In The Book) • Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict: stressful tension state that arises as a result of a simultaneous repulsion of two goals. Some voters find themselves voting for the “lesser of two evils” in their minds during elections.

12. Stress Conflicts (Not in the Book) • Approach-Avoidance Conflict: stressful tension state caused being simultaneously attracted and repulsed by the same goal. YOU’RE FIRED! Can I get a Raise Boss? Want a raise at work but don’t want to get fired for asking.

13. Stress Conflicts (Not in the Book) • Double Approach-Avoidance Conflict: stressful tension state that arises when having to choose between 2 or more goals that have both attractive and repulsive qualities. Most common and complex conflict in real life. Girl choosing to Go to prom with Brad Pitt or her long-term boyfriend

14. Apply The Concepts: 4 Points • Come up with a unique example of each conflict from you life.

15. Biology of Stress? What is Activated When You Feel Stress? • Stress-Response Cycle Includes: • 1. Sympathetic and parasympathetic cycles are activated • 2.Withdraw. Pull Back. Conserve Energy. • 3. Women- “Tend and Befriend”

16. Secondary Response Cycle

17. Animals and Humans Tend to React To Stress In the Same Pattern. • Hans Selye discovered the responsive cycle for how we react to stress which he named the: • General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) • Phase 1: Alarm:activation of sympathetic nervous system. • Phase 2: Resistance: arousal remains high as you attempt to cope with the stressor. “Fight or Flight.” • Phase 3: Exhaustion: body becomes run down with constant stress which can leave you more vulnerable to illness or even death.

18. The body’s resistance to stress can only Last so long before exhaustion sets in Stress resistance Stressor occurs Phase 1 Alarm reaction (mobilize resources) Phase 2 Resistance (cope with stressor) Phase 3 Exhaustion (reserves depleted) Diagram of GAS

19. Stressful Life Events Can Create Serious Health Risks • Categories of Stressful Life Events: • 1. Catastrophes: unavoidable natural disasters, etc. • 2. Significant Life Changes: loss of loved one, leaving home, loss of job, etc. • 3. Everyday Hassles: traffic, long lines at Best Buy, etc.

20. Perceived Control’s Effect on Health and Stress • Stressful events are especially harmful if they are perceived as negative and uncontrollable. • Those who feel stressful events are beyond their control are also more susceptible to illness and disease.

21. “Executive” rat “Subordinate” rat Control rat To shock control To shock source No connection to shock source The Rat With No Control Over the Shocks Develops Ulcers

22. Other Influences on Health and Stress • Poverty:poorer people are more at risk for a premature death. • Inequality: areas where there is a large discrepancy/gap between rich and poor have lower life expectancies than areas where differences are less extreme.

23. Other Influences on Health and Stress • Optimism-Pessimism:Those with more positive outlooks tend to cope with stressful events better and have better health than those who dwell on the negative. • Outlooks often tied to feelings of control.