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| hormone that enhances metabolism and increases the availability of sugar and other fuels to the cells |
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| methods in which people try to weaken their emotional reaction |
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| field of psychology concerned with how people's behavior can enhance health and prevent illness and how behavior contributes to recovery from illness |
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| protection against the harmful effects of stress by earlier exposure to smaller amounts of it |
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| posttraumatic stress disorder |
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| condition in which people who have endured extreme stress feel prolonged anxiety and depression |
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| methods in which people attend carefully to the stressful event and try to take effective actions |
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| reinterpreting a situation to make it seem less threatening |
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| according to Selye, the nonspecific response of the body to any demands made upon it; according to Lazarus, a situation that someone regards as threatening and as possibly exceeding his or her resources |
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| personality characterized by constant competitiveness, impatience, anger, and hostility |
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| personality characterized by an easygoing attitude, with little hurry or hostility |
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