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| A stress-producing event or situation |
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| A person's reaction to his or her inability to cope with a certain tense event or situation |
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| The body's response to a stressor |
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| Stress that stems from acute anxiety or pressure |
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| Positive stress, which results from motivating strivings and challenges |
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| When a person must choose between two or more options that tend to result from opposing motives |
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| A vague, generalized apprehension or feeling of danger |
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| The irate reaction likely to result from frustration |
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| The usual reaction when a stressor involves real or imagined danger |
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| The body's natural defense system against infection |
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| Information that leads someone to believe that he or she is cared for, loved, respected, and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation |
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| The interpretation of an event that helps determine its stress impact |
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| A coping mechanism in which a person decides that the event is not really a stressor |
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| A coping mechanism in which the person analyzes a situation from an emotionally detached viewpoint |
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| Lying down comfortably and tensing and releasing the tension and releasing the tension in each major muscle group in turn |
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| A focusing of attention with the goal of clearing one's mind and producing an "inner peace" |
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| The process of learning to control bodily states to be controlled |
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| Ability to take care of oneself and make one's own decisions |
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| Friends force one another to reexamine their basic assumptions and perhaps adopt new ideas and beliefs |
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| Combining old ideas with new ones and reorganizing feelings in order to renew one's identity |
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| A vocation in which a person works at least a few years |
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| The concept that women and men should receive equal pay for jobs calling for comparable skill and responsibility |
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| General adaptation syndrome |
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| Made up of three stages in the body's stress reaction: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. |
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| The person finds means to cope with stressor to ward off. |
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| Body mobilizes its fight-orflight defenses. Heartbeat and breathing quickens, muscles tense, the piupils dilate, and hormones that sustain these reactions are secreted. |
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| The adrenal and other glands involved in the fight-or-flight response have been taxed to their limit and become unable to secrete hormones |
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