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| Any noticeable alterations in one's living circumstances that require readjustment |
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Occurs when 2+ incompatible motivations or behavioural impulses computer for expression
approach-approach
avoidance-avoidance
approach-avoidance |
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Occurs in any situation where the pursuit of some goal is thwarted. Mostly brief and insignificant
ex. Traffic jams |
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Threatening events that have a relatively long duration and no readily apparent time limit
ex. Financial strain from debt sick family member |
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Threatening events that have a relatively short duration and a clear endpoint
ex. exams |
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| Any circumstance that threatens or are perceived to threatens one's well-being and that thereby tax one's coping abilities |
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| Physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological psychological and sociocultural factors |
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Involves expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way
ex. salesperson, comedian |
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Physiological reaction to threat in which the autonomic nervous system mobilizes the organism for attacking or feeling the enemy
*Sympathetic division of ANS |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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Model of the body's stress response, consisting of 3 stages: alarm, resistance, exhaustion
1. First recognize threat, f&f
2.Physiological changes stabilize, arousal higher than normal
3.If stress can't be overcome, body's resources depleted |
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Active efforts to master, reduce or tolerate the demands created by stress
*Can be adaptive or maladaptive |
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Passive behaviour produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events
*When they believe events are beyond control; behavioural disengagement |
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| Any behaviour that is intended to hurt someone, either physically or verbally |
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Release of emotional tension
ex. behaving aggressively relieves pent up emotion |
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General tendency to expect good outcomes
*Correlation between optimist and good health |
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| Largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions (anxiety, guilt) |
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Various types of aid and emotional sustenance provided by members of one's social networks
*Increases immune function |
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Body's defensive reaction to invasion by bacteria, viral agents and foreign substances
*Stress impairs it! |
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| Relatively relaxed, patient, easygoing, amicable behaviour |
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3 elements
1. Strong competitive orientation
2. Impatience and time urgency
3. Anger and hostility |
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Genuine physical ailments thought to be caused in part by stress and other psychological factors
ex. high blood pressure, asthma, migraines |
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| Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Enduring psychological disturbance attributed to the experience of a major traumatic event |
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| Physical and emotional exhaustion, gradually brought on by chronic work related stress |
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Relatively healthful efforts that people make to deal with stressful events
-confront problems directly
-realistic appraisal of stress |
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| Intellectualization (Isolation) |
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| Cutting off emotion from hurtful situations or separating incompatible attitudes so they appear unrelated |
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Protecting oneself from unpleasant reality by refusing to perceive or face it
ex. smoker won't believe that it's linked to disease |
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Gratifying frustrated desires by imaginary achievements
ex. imagining that lost of women want him |
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| Covering up felt weaknesses by emphasizing some desirable characteristic, or making up for frustration in one area by over gratification in another |
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Atoning for or trying to magically dispel unacceptable desires or acts
ex. touching door know after masturbation? |
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| Common Emotional Response to Stress |
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-Annoyance, anger, rage
-Apprehension, anxiety, fear
-Dejection, sadness, grief |
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