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| a subjective experience, which has cumulative effects on people. |
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| The _________ we experience are sometimes more stressful than major ones. |
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| Broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions |
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| positive emotions short circuit potentially damaging physiological responses to stress; help to broaden the scope of people’s attention and increase their creativity; help people to build valuable social support and enhanced coping strategies |
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| Broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions |
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| positive emotions short circuit potentially damaging physiological responses to stress |
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| Broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions |
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| help to broaden the scope of people’s attention and increase their creativity |
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| Broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions |
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| help people to build valuable social support and enhanced coping strategies |
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| can lead to depression when suppressed and sometimes enhances learning |
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| alarm, resistance, and exhaustion |
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| Selye’s General Adaption Syndrome consists of three stages: _____, _______, and ______ |
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| increased, rather than decreased, distress |
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| People who use "giving up" or behavioral disengagement as a coping strategy typically experience ____________________ |
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| making reasonable appraisals of coping resources and confronting a problem directly. |
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| Healthful strategies for coping or “constructive coping” include ____________________ |
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| recognizing, and inhibiting potentially disruptive emotional reactions to stress. |
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| Constructive coping can also include _________________ |
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| their body is not especially vulnerable to the effects of stress. |
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| During constructive coping, some people find it helpful to ensure that _______________________ |
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| Research supports that high levels of ________ can increase one’s immune functioning and improve one’s mental health. |
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| Because of social support, _______ health is improved, and the effects of stress can be reduced. |
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| AIDS, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
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| ______ is a disorder in which the immune system is gradually weakened and eventually disabled by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). |
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| According to _________, if you dispute your irrational assumptions, you can reduce unrealistic appraisals of stress. |
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| you can reduce unrealistic appraisals of stress |
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| According to Albert Ellis, if you dispute your irrational assumptions, ______________________-. |
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| _______’s research on patient behavior found that people delay seeking medical attention because they sometimes misinterpret the importance of their symptoms. |
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| they sometimes misinterpret the importance of their symptoms. |
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| DiMatteo’s research on patient behavior found that people delay seeking medical attention because ________________________ |
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| The _________ is the body's defensive reaction to invasion by bacteria, viral agents, or other foreign substances. |
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| Freud theorized that behaving aggressively could get pent up emotion out of one’s system and thus be an adaptive way of dealing with stress. He coined the term _________ to refer to this release of emotional tension. |
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| Social Readjustment Rating Scale |
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| High scores on the _______________ were found to be correlated with psychological disturbances and physical illness. |
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| psychological disturbances and physical illness |
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| High scores on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale were found to be correlated with ______________. |
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| ___________ is usually brief and insignificant, and occurs whenever the pursuit of a goal is thwarted |
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| The __________ personality includes a strong competitive orientation, impatience and time urgency as well as anger and hostility. |
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| a strong competitive orientation, impatience and time urgency as well as anger and hostility. |
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| The Type A personality includes: |
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