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| Describes the emotional, physical and behavioral responses to events that are challenging. |
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| The effect of unpleasant and undesiable stressors. |
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| Events that cause a stress reaction. |
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| SOCIAL READJUSTMENT RATING SCALE (SRRS) |
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| Assessment that measures the amount of stress in a persons life over a one year period resulting from major life events. |
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| An unpredictable, large-scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as over-whelming feelings of threat. |
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| The effect of positive events or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being. |
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| The psychological experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for a person's behavior that come from an outside source. |
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| The daily annoyances of everyday life. |
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| COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATE STRESS SCALE (CUSS) |
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| Assessment that measures the amount of stress in a college students life over a one year period resulting from major life events. |
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| Taking out one's frustration on some less threatening or more available target. |
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| Actions meant to harm or destroy. |
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| The psychological experience produced by the blocking of a desired goal or fulfillment of a perceived need. |
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| Disease involving failure of the pancreas to secrete enough insulin, necessitating medication, usually diagnosed before the age of 40 and can be associated with obesity. |
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| The system of cells, organs, and chemicals of the body that responds to attacks from disease, infections and injuries. |
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| GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME (GAS) |
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| The three stages of the body's physiological reaction to stress, including alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. |
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| First step in assessing stress, which involves estimating the severity of a stressor and classifying it as either a threat or a challenge. |
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| Area of psychology focusing on how physical activities, psychological traits, and social relationships affect over all health and rate of illnesses. |
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| Immune-system cell responsible for suppressing viruses and destroying tumor cells. |
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| MULTIPLE APPROACH-AVOIDANCE CONFLICT |
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| Conflict in which the person must decide between more than two goals with each goal possessing both positive and negative aspects. |
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| DOUBLE APPROACH-AVOIDANCE CONFLICT |
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| Conflict in which the person must decide between two goals, with each goal possessing botch positive and negative aspects. |
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| APPROACH-AVOIDANCE CONFLICT |
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| Conflict occuring when a person must choose or not choose a goal that has both negative and positive aspects. |
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| AVOIDANCE-AVOIDANCE CONFLICT |
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| Conflict occuring when a person must choose between two undesirable goals. |
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| Leaving the presence of a stressor, either literally or by a psychological withdrawal into fantasy, drug abuse or apathy. |
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| APPROACH-APPROACH CONFLICT |
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| Conflict occuring when a person must choose between two desirable goals |
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| Person who is relaxed and laid back, less driven and competitive than type A and slow to anger. |
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| Person who is ambitious, time conscious, extremely hardworking and tends to have high levels of hostility and anger as well as being easily annoyed. |
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| Second step in assessing a threat, which involves estimating the resources available to the person for coping with the stressor. |
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| People who expect positive outcomes. |
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| A person who seems to thrive on stress but lacks the anger and hostility of the Type A personality. |
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| Pleasant but repressed person, who tends to internalize his or her anger and anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult. |
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| Network of family, neighbors, coworkers, and others who can offer support, comfort, or aid to a person in need. |
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| Stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture. |
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| Negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration. |
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| People who expect negative outcomes. |
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| Coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor. |
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| Coping strategies that try to eliminate the sourve of a stress or reduce its impact through direct actions. |
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| Actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce or minimize the effects of stressors. |
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| Form of meditation in which a person focuses the mind on some repetitive or unchanging stimulus so that the mind can be cleared of disturbing thoughts and the body can experience relaxation. |
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| Mental series of excercises meant to refocus attention and acheive a trancelike state of consciousness. |
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| Form of meditation in which a person attempts to become aware of everything in immediate conscious experience or an expansion of consciousness. |
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