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| the anxious or threatening feeling that comes when we interpret or appraise a situation as being more than our psychological resources can adequately handle. |
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| refers to our initial, subjective evaluation of a situation, in which we balance the demands of a potentially stressful situation against our ability to meet these demands. |
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| means you have already sustained some damage or injury from a situation. |
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| means that the harm/loss has not yet taken place but you know it will happen in the near future. |
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| means that you have the potential for gain or personal growth but also need to mobilize your physical energy and psychological resources to meet the challegning situation. |
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| measure of how much a person's hand sweats due to physiological arousal and not to normal temerature changes. |
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| Fight-Flight Sequence of Activation |
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| Appraisal; Hypothalamus (ACTH); Sympathetic Division; Fight/Flight Response |
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| refer to real and often painful physical symptoms, such as headaches, muscle pains, and stomach problems, that are caused by psychological factors, such as worry, stress, and anxiety. |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome |
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| refers to the body's reaction to stressful situations during which it goes through a series of three stages- alarm, resistance, and exhaustion- that gradually increase the chances of developing psychosomatic symptoms. |
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| the initial reaction to stress and is marked by activation of the fight-flight response; in turn, the fight-flight response causes physiological arousal. |
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| the body's reaction to continued stress during which most of the physiological responses return to normal levels but the body uses up great stores of energy. |
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| the body's reation to long-term, continuous stress and is marked by actual breakdown in internal organs or weakening of the infection-fighting immune system. |
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| refers to how your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions can produce physiological changes that may be either beneficial or detrimental to your health and well-being. |
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| based on the finding that thoughts and emotions can change physiological and immune responses; it uses mental strategies, such as relaxation, meditation, and biofeedback, as well as social support groups to help individuals change negative beliefs, thoughts, and emotions into more positive ones. |
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| the study of the relationship among three factors: the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), the endocrine system (network of glands that secrete homrones), and psychological factors (stressful thoughts, personality traits, and social influences). |
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| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder |
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| a disabling condition that results form personally experiencing an even that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury or from witnessing such an event or hearing of such an event happening to a family member or close friend; people experience a number of psychological symptoms, including recurring and disturbing memories, terrible nightmares, and intense fear/anxiety. |
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| Approach-Approach Conflict |
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| involves choosing between two situations that both have pleasurable consequences. |
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| Aviodance-Avoidance Conflict |
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| involves choosing between two situations that both have disagreeable consequences. |
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| Approach-Avoidance Conflict |
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| involves a single situation that has both pleasurable and disagreeable aspects. |
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| referred to a combination of personality traits that included an overly competitive and aggressive drive to achieve, a hostile attitude when frustrated, a habitual sense of time urgency, a rapid and explosive pattern of speaking, and being a workaholic. |
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| depressed, aggresively competitive, easily frustrated, anxious, and angry; or some combination of these traits. |
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| involves deciding to deal with a potentially stressful situation by using one or both of two different coping patterns: problem-focused coping means doing something about the problem, while emotion-focused coping means dealing with our emotions. |
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| means we solve the problem by seeking information, changing our own behavior, or taking whatever action is necessary. |
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| means that we do things primarily to deal with our emotional distress, such as seeking support and sympathy or avoiding or denying the situation. |
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| refers to voluntarily learning to control physiological responses, such as muscle activity, blood pressure, or temperature, by recording and siplaying these responses. |
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| involves practicing tensing and relaxing the major muscle groups of the body until you are able to relax any groups of muscles at will. |
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| Transcendental Meditation |
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| involves assuming a comfortable position, closing one's eyes, and repeating and concentrating on a sound to clear one's hear of all thoughts. |
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| involves sitting or lying in a comfortable position while silently repeating a sound over and over to rid oneself of anxious thoughts. |
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