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30 Cards in this Set
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efforts to master, reduce or tolerate the demands created by stress |
Coping |
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Flexible copers can differentiate among stressful events in terms of ______ and impact, which is important to know when choosing a coping strategy |
Controllability |
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passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events |
Learned-helplessness |
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any behavior intended to hurt someone, physically or verbally |
Aggression |
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aggression is always due to frustration |
Frustration-aggression hypothesis |
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refer to this release of emotional tension |
Catharsis |
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Most studies fine that behaving in aggressive manner tends to fuel: |
more anger and aggression |
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Stress sometimes leads to reduce _____ control or ______ |
impulse; self-indulgence |
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Consists of spending an inordinate amount of time on the internet and inability to control online use |
internet addiction |
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Tendency to engage in ______ in response to stress |
Negative self-talk |
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What are negative self-talk tendencies |
1. Unreasonable attribute their failures to personal shortcomings
2. Focus on negative feedback from others while ignoring favorable feedback
3. make unduly pessimistic projection about the future. |
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are largely unconscious reaction that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt |
Defense Mechanisms |
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What do defense mechanisms defend against? |
Above all else, defense mechanisms shield the individual from: emotional discomfort elicited by stress |
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Defense mechanisms work through ____-________ |
self- deception |
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Why are defense mechanisms are poor ways of coping? |
1. Avoidance strategy
2. Wishful thinking
3. Related to poor health |
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avoidance rarely provides a genuine solution |
Avoidance strategy |
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likely to accomplish little |
Wishful thinking |
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delays facing up to problems |
Related to poor health |
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What are the 5 themes in constructive coping? |
1. Confronting problems directly 2. Constructing coping 3. Constructive coping 4. Learning to recognize and manage potentially disruptive emotional reactions to stress 5. Exert some control over potentially harmful behaviors |
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What are constructive coping? |
Appraisal
Problem
Emotion |
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What is appraisal? |
Focused coping aimed at changing ones interpretation stressful events |
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What is Problem? |
focused coping: altering the stressful situation itself
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What is Emotion? |
Focused coping: managing potential emotional distress |
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Approach to therapy that focuses on altering clients patterns of irrational thinking to reduce maladaptive emotions and behavior |
Rational-emotive behavior therapy |
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Unrealistic appraisals of stress that exaggerate the magnitude of one's problems |
Catastrophic thinking |
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What is the A-B-C sequence for Ellis's |
Activating event: produces the stress
Belief system: represents appraisal of stress
Consequence: consequence of negative thinking |
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What are the 4 common irrational assumptions? |
1. I must have love and affection from certain people.
2. I must perform well in all endeavors
3. Other people should always behave competently and be considerate of me
4. Events should always go the way I like |
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How to reduce catastrophic thinking |
Learn how to detect catastrophic thinking. |
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Humor as a stress result |
Humor affects appraisals of stressful events |
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Positive Reiterpretation |
Comparing your own plight with others' even tougher struggles can help you put your problems into perspective |
