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| study of the effects of pyschological factors such as stres, emotions, thoughts, and behavior on the immune system. |
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| term used to desribe the physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral repsonses to events that are appraised or challenging or threatening |
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| events that cause a stress reaction |
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| effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors |
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| effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being |
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| unpredictable, large scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as overwhelming feelings of threat |
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| Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) |
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assessment that measures the amount of stress in a person's life over a 1-year period resulting from major life events. outline of 43 life events.
Score 150-300, 50% chance of stress related illness within 2 years
Score 300+, 80% chance of stress related illness within 2 years |
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| response to stress in which the sympathetic nervous system and the enodrine glands prepare the body to fight or flee |
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| little stressors including irritating demands that can cause more stress than major life changes. Examples, relationships, health problems, hectic days |
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| pyschological experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for a persons behavior that come from an outside source |
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| one of the most common forms of pressure. Looses ability to be creative |
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| psychological experience produced by the blocking of a desired goal or fulfillment of a perceived need. Examples: external, internal |
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frustrations that is not controlled by ones inner self.
Example: car breaking down, theft of belonging, not getting a desired job |
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| internal frustrations (personal frustrations) |
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when the goal can not be obtained because of internal or personal characteristics
examples: someone wanting to be an astronaut can not make it because of motion sickness, height requirements for sports |
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acts meant to harm or destroy.
A reaction to frustration, ( soda machine ) |
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| taking out ones frustrations on some less threatening or more available target |
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| leaving the presence or 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 occurring when a person must choose between two desirable goals
Example: Choosing a movie to see or Continuing a career vs raising a child |
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| avoidance-avoidance conflict :-( :-( |
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conflict occurring when a person must choose between 2 undesirable goals
example: avoid studying for a test or failing a test |
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| approach-avoidance conflict |
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conflict occurring when a person must choose or not choose a goal that has both positive and negative aspects
Example: wanting to take a vacation but must empty life savings to do so |
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| double approach-avoidance conflict |
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| conflict in which a there person must decide between two goals, with each goal possessing both positive and negative aspects |
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| multiple approach-avoidance conflict |
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| conflict in which the person must decide between more than two goals, each goal possessing both positive and negative aspects |
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| general adapation syndrome |
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| three stages of the body's physiological retain to stress, including alarm, resistance, and exhaustion |
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| immune-system cell responsible for suppressing viruses and destroying tumor cells |
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| area of psychology focusing on how physical activities, psychological traits, and social relationships affect overall health and rate of illness |
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| first step in assessing, which involves estimating the severity of a stressor and classifying it as either a threat or a challenge |
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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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| 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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| person who is relaxed and laid-back, less driven and competitive than type A, and slow to anger |
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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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| negative changes in thought as result in prolonged frustration |
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| stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture |
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| network of family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others who can offer support, com for, or aid to a person in need |
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| actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors |
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| coping strategies that try to eliminate the sources of stress or recede its impact through direct actions |
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| coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the sressor |
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| mental series of exercises meant to focus attention and achieve a trancelike state of consciousness |
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| form of mediation 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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| form of mediation in which a person focuses the mind on some repetitive or unchanging stimulus so that the mind can be cleared of distributing thoughts and the body can experience relaxation |
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