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Chapter 15 Stress and Health
Vocabulary from Chapter 15 AP Psychology
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Psychology
11th Grade
12/10/2010

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Stressor
Definition
A stress-producing event or situation
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Stress
Definition
A person's reaction to his or her inability to cope with a certain tense event or situation
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Stress reaction
Definition
The body's response to a stressor
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Distress
Definition
Stress that stems from acute anxiety or pressure
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Eustress
Definition
Positive stress, which results from motivating strivings and challenges
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Conflict situation
Definition
When a person must choose between two or more options that tend to result from opposing motives
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Anxiety
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A vague, generalized apprehension or feeling of danger
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Anger
Definition
The irate reaction likely to result from frustration
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Fear
Definition
The usual reaction when a stressor involves real or imagined danger
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Immune system
Definition
The body's natural defense system against infection
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Social support
Definition
Information that leads someone to believe that he or she is cared for, loved, respected, and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation
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Cognitive appraisal
Definition
The interpretation of an event that helps determine its stress impact
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Denial
Definition
A coping mechanism in which a person decides that the event is not really a stressor
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Intellectualization
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A coping mechanism in which the person analyzes a situation from an emotionally detached viewpoint
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Progressive relaxation
Definition
Lying down comfortably and tensing and releasing the tension and releasing the tension in each major muscle group in turn
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Meditation
Definition
A focusing of attention with the goal of clearing one's mind and producing an "inner peace"
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Biofeedback
Definition
The process of learning to control bodily states to be controlled
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Autonomy
Definition
Ability to take care of oneself and make one's own decisions
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Developmental friendship
Definition
Friends force one another to reexamine their basic assumptions and perhaps adopt new ideas and beliefs
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Resynthesis
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Combining old ideas with new ones and reorganizing feelings in order to renew one's identity
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Career
Definition
A vocation in which a person works at least a few years
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Comparable worth
Definition
The concept that women and men should receive equal pay for jobs calling for comparable skill and responsibility
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General adaptation syndrome
Definition
Made up of three stages in the body's stress reaction: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
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Resistance stage
Definition
The person finds means to cope with stressor to ward off.
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Alarm stage
Definition
Body mobilizes its fight-orflight defenses. Heartbeat and breathing quickens, muscles tense, the piupils dilate, and hormones that sustain these reactions are secreted.
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Exhaustion
Definition
The adrenal and other glands involved in the fight-or-flight response have been taxed to their limit and become unable to secrete hormones
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