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| A complex set of reactions made by an individual under pressure to adapt |
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| approach-approach conflict |
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| a situation in which an organism is caught between two or more alternatives and each of them is positive, or potenitially |
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| avoidance-avoidance conflict |
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| a situation in which a person is faced with several alternatives, each of them negative or in some way punishing |
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| approach-avoidance conflict |
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| a situatoin in which a person is faced with only one goal and would like to reach than goal, but at the same time would like not to. |
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| is the blocking or thwarting of goal-directed behavior-blocking that may be total and permanent or partial and temporary. |
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| Multiple approach-avoidance conflict |
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| a situation in which an individual is faced with a number of alternatives, each one of which is at the same time and in some way both positive and negative. |
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| a measure that reflects income, ducation level, and occupation. |
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| General adaptation syndrome |
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| the most weidely accepted description of the psysiological reations to chronic stressors, including alarm, resistrance, and exhaustoin stages |
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| _____'s General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| first response to the perception of a stressor |
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| Emotion-focused Strategies |
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| techniques that deal with how one feels and how to change the way one feels when dealing with stress and stressors |
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| Problem-focused strategies |
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| techniques that deal with finding the underlying situation that is causing one's stress and taking steps to deal with it |
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| the technique of providing information about internal bodily processes in such a form that the person might be able to modify those processes |
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| Frustration-aggression hypothesis |
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| the claim(now discredited) that frustration can produce several different reactions, including agression, but that aggression was always caused by frustration |
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| a general feeling of tension, apprehension, and dread that involves predicable physiological changes. |
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| competitive, achievement oriented, impatient individual who typically works at many tasks at the same time, is easily aroused, and is often hostile or angry |
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| relaxed and easygoing personality |
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