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| Says that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. |
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| A type of psychology that is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. |
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| Any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one's well-being and that thereby tax one's coping abilities. |
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| Stressors that are threatening events that have a relatively short duration and a clear endpoint. |
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| Stressors that are threatening events that have a relatively long duration and no readily apparent time limit. |
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| It occurs in any situation in which the pursuit of some goal is thwarted. |
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| It occurs when two or more incompatible motivations or behavioral impulses compete for expression. |
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| Approach-Approach Conflict |
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| A type of conflict where are choice must be made between two attractive goals. |
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| Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict |
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| A type of conflict where a choice must be made between two unattractive goals. |
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| Approach-Avoidance Conflict |
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| A type of conflict where a choice must be made about whether to pursue a single goal that has both attractive and unattractive aspects. |
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| Any significant alterations in one's living circumstances that require readjustment. |
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| Expectations or demands on one to behave in a certain way. |
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| A physicological reaction to threat in which the autonomic nervous system mobilizes the organism for attacking or fleeing. |
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| General Adaption Syndrome |
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| A model of the body's stress response, consisting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. |
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| Active efforts to master, reduce, or tolarate the demands created by stress. |
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| Passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events. |
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| Any behavior that is intended to hurt someone, either physically or verbally. |
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| A release of emotional tension. |
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| When someone spends an inordinate amount of time on the Internet and the inability to control online use. |
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| Largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt. |
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| The healthful efforts that people make to deal with stressful events. |
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| Physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and a lowered sense of self-efficacy that can be brought on gradually by chronic work-related stress. |
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| Genuine physical ailments that were thought to be caused in part by stress and other psychological factors. |
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| A type of personality that includes: A strong competitive orientation, impatience and time urgency, and anger and hostility. |
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| A type of personality with relatively relaxed, patient, easygoing, amicable behavior. |
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| The body's defensive reaction to invasion by bacteria, viral agents, or other foreign substances. |
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| Various types of aid and succor provided by members of one's social networks. |
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| A general tendency to expect good outcomes. |
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| Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
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| A disorder in which the immune system is gradually weakened and eventually disabled by the human immunodefiency virus (HIV). |
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| Unrealistic pessimistic appraisals of stress that exagerate the magnitude of one's problems. |
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| He developed the Hassle Scale. |
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| He formulated a theory of stress reactions called the General Adaption Syndrome. |
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| He developed the term "Catastrophic Thinking". |
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| She studied the correlation between "positive illusions" and mental health. |
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| He studied how people explain bad events in their lives and came up with the pessimistic and optimistic explanatory styles. |
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| She studied patient behavior, including how patients viewed their symptoms. |
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