Stress, Lifestyle, and Health (Psychology)

Recall cards on stress, health, and well-being. What stress is (a process of appraising events as overwhelming or threatening), health psychology, stimulus- versus response-based definitions, Selye's work, primary and secondary appraisal, eustress versus distress, Cannon's fight-or-flight response, the general adaptation syndrome (alarm, resistance, exhaustion), and the HPA axis and cortisol. Stressors: chronic versus acute, job strain, job burnout and its dimensions, and the Holmes-Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Stress and illness: psychophysiological disorders, psychoneuroimmunology, lymphocytes and immune suppression, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, Type A and Type B personality, asthma, and tension headaches. Regulation of stress: problem-focused versus emotion-focused coping, perceived control, social support, learned helplessness, exercise, and biofeedback. The pursuit of happiness: positive psychology, subjective well-being, Seligman's three components of a happy life, the income-happiness relationship, hedonic adaptation, flow, and positive affect.