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| the physical and psychological response to internal or external stressors |
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| general adaptation syndrome (GAS) |
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| a three-stage physiological response that appears regardless of the stressor that is encountered |
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| the tendency toward easily aroused hostility, impatience, a sense of time urgency, and competitive achievement strivings |
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| post traumatic stress disorder |
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| A psychological disorder characterized by chronic physiological arousal, recurrent unwanted thoughts or images of the trauma, and avoidance of things that call the trauma to mind |
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| facing a stressor and working to overcome it |
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| finding a new or creative way to think about a stressor that reduces its threat |
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| stress inoculation training (SIT) |
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| a therapy that helps people to cope with stressful situations by developing positive ways to think about the situation |
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| a technique for reducing tension by consciously relaxing muscles of the body |
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| a clinically significant psychological or physiological response to a therapeutically inert substance or procedure |
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| the exercise of voluntary control over the self to bring the self into line with preferred standards |
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| frustration-aggression principle |
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| a principle stating that people aggress when their goals are thwarted |
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| a human category of which a person is a member |
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| a phenomenon that occurs when immersion in a group causes people to become less aware of their individual values |
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| diffusion of responsibility |
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| the tendency for individuals to feel diminished responsibility for their actions when they are surrounded by others who are acting the same way |
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| the tendency for liking to increase with the frequency of exposure |
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| the cost-benefit ratio that people believe they deserve or could attain in another relationship |
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| a customary standard for behavior that is widely shared by members of a culture |
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| the norm that people should benefit those who have benefited them |
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| foot-in-the-door technique |
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| a strategy that uses a person's desire for consistency to influence that person's behavior |
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| the tendency to make situational attributions for our own behaviors while making dispositional attributions for the identical behavior of others |
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