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| _________ is the scale developed to measure stress by ranking different life events from most to least stressful and assigning a point value to each event. |
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| Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) |
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| _________ is a situation in which a decision must be made between two equally desirable alternatives. |
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| Approach-approach conflict |
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| In an __________, a person must choose between two undesirable alternatives. |
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| Avoidance-avoidance conflict |
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| An _________ involves a single choice that has both desirable and undesirable traits. |
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| Approach-avoidance conflict |
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| The __________ is the predictable sequence of reactions that organisms show in response to stressors. |
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| General adaptation syndrome (GAS) |
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| The first stage of a body's response to a stressor is the ________, in which the adrenal cortex releases hormones that increase heart rate, blood pressure, and blood-sugar levels, supplying a burst of energy that helps the persondeal with the stressful situation. |
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| ________ is the second stage , during which the adrenal cortex continues to release hoormones to help the body resist stressors. |
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| If the organism fails in its efforts to resist, it reaches the ________, at which point all the stores of deep energy are depleted, and disintegration and death follow. |
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| A _______ is an evaluation of the meaning and significance of the situation-whether its effect on one's well-being is positive, irrelevant, or negative. |
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| During ________, if people judge the situation to be within their comtrol, they make an evaluation of available resources before they decide how to deal with the situation. |
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| _________ is direct; it consists of reducing, modifying, or eliminating the source of stress itself. |
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| ____________ involvesreappraising a stressor in an effort to reduce its emotional impact. |
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| The __________ is the perspective that explains illness in terms of biological factors. |
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| The ___________ is a perspective that focuses on health as well as illness and holds that both are determined by a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors. |
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| ________ is the subfield within psychology that is concerned with the psychological factors that contribute to health, illness, and recovery. |
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| A _______ is one that includes a job at which one spends most of the time sitting and less than 20 minutes of exercise three times a week. |
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| The key components of the immune system are white blood cells known as _______, which include B cells and T cells. |
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| ___________ is a field of study in which psychologists, biologists, and medical researchers combine their expertise to learn the effects of psychological factors on the immune system. |
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| _______ is the combination of three psychological qualities -commitment, control, and challenge- shared by people who can handle a high level of stress and remain healthy. |
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| ________ is support provided, usually in time of need, by a spouse, other family members, friends, neighbors,colleagues, support groups, or others. |
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| The ________ views abnormal behavior as arising from a physical cause. |
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| The ______ agrees that physical causes are of central importance but also recognizes the influence of psychological and social factors in the study, identification, and treatment of psychological disorders. |
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| Biopsychsocial perspective |
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| The ________ maintains that psychological disorders stem from early childhood experiences and unresolved, unconscious conflicts, usually of a sexual or aggressive nature. |
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| Psychodynamic perspective |
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| The _______ suggests that faulty thinking or distorted perceptions can contribute to some types of psychlogical disorders. |
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| The ________ involve physical symptoms that are due to psychological causes rather than any known medical condition. |
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| A person is diagnosed with a __________ when there is a loss of motor or sensory functioning in some part of the body, which is not due to a physical cause but which solves a psychological problem. |
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| In response to unbearable stress, some people develop a ________, in which they lose the ability to consciously integrate their identities. |
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| _______ is a complete or partial loss of the ability to recall personal info or identify experiences that cannot be attributed to ordinary forgetfulness or substance use. |
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| In _______ people not only forget their entire identity, but they also travel away from home and may take on a new identity. |
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| In _________, two or more distnct, unique personalities exist in the same individual, and there is severe memory disruption concerning the personal info about the other personalities. |
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| Dissociative identity disorder (DID) |
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| _______ are approaches to psychotherapy based on the noton that psychological well-being depends on self-understanding. |
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| __________ assume that people have the ability and freedom to lead rational lives and make rational choices. |
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| _________ is the view that people are innately good and, if allowed to develop naturally,will grow toward self-actualization. |
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| _________ is any type of psychotherapy in which the patient decides the direction of the session. |
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| ________ look not only at the individualsinternal struggles but also at their interpersonal relationships. |
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| __________ is a brief psychotherapy designed specifically to help patients understand and cope with their interpersonal relationships. |
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| Interpersonal therapy (IPT) |
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| _________ are those that assume that maladaptive behavior can result from irrational thoughts, beleifs, and ideas, which the therapist tries to change. |
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| _________ is a directive form of psychtherapy designed to challenge clients' irrational beliefs about themselves and others. |
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| The goal of Beck's _________ is to help clients stop their negative thoughts as they occur and replace them with more objective thoughts. |
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| The view that psychological disorders are symptoms of underlying physical problems is ___________. |
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