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| The study of physical health and illness by psychologists from various areas of specialization. |
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| An unpleasant state of arousal in which people perceive the demands of an event as taxing or exceeding their ability to satisfy or alter those demands. |
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| The process by which people make judgments about the demands of potentially stressful events and their ability to meet those demands. |
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| Efforts to reduce stress. |
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| Anything that causes stress. |
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| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder |
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| A condition in which a person experiences enduring physical and psychological symptoms after an extremely stressful event. |
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The accumulation of daily hassles does more to make people sick than catastrophes or major life changes.
True or False? |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| A three-stage process (alarm, resistance, and exhaustion) by which the body responds to stress. |
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Like humans, Zebras get ulcers.
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| A pattern of behaviour characterized by extremes of competitive striving for achievement, a sense of time urgency, hostility, and aggression. |
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| A biological surveillance system that detects and destroys "nonself" substances that invade the body. |
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| A subfield of psychology that examines the links among psychological factors, the brain and nervous system, and the immune system. |
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Stress can weaken the heart but it cannot affect the immune system.
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| A phenomenon in which experience with a uncontrollable event creates passive behaviour in the face of subsequent threats to well-being. |
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| Depressive Explanatory Style |
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| A habitual tendancy to attribute negative events to causes that are stable, global, and internal. |
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| A person's belief that he/she is capable of the specific behaviour required to produve a desired outcome in a given situation. |
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When it comes to physical health, research does not support popular beliefs about the power of positive thinking.
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| Cognitive and behavioural efforts to alter a stressful situation. |
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| Cognitive and behavioural efforts to reduce the distress produced by a stressful situation. |
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| Up front efforts to ward off or modify the onset of a stressful event. |
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| Ways of Coping with Stress |
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1. Planning/Active Coping
2. Positive Reinterpretation
3. Acceptance
4. Seeking Social Support
5. Restraint Coping
6. Focusing on/Venting emotions |
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| The helpful coping resources provided by friends and other people. |
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People who have lots of friends are healthier and live longer than those who live more isolated lives.
True or False? |
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| Collectivist Coping Styles |
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1. Acceptance, Reframing, Striving
2. Avoidance and Detachment
3. Family Support
4. Religion and Spirituality
5. Private Emotional Outlets |
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As role models, celebs have great influence over public health care decisions.
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| One's hpapiness, or life satisfaction, as measured by self-report. |
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