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22 Cards in this Set
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Stress
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the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
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Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases-alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
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Tend and befriend
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under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others and bond with and seek support from others.
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Health psychology
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a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine.
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Psychoneuroimmunology
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the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.
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Coronary heart disease
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the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries.
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Type A
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Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.
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Type B
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Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people.
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Catharsis
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in psychology, the idea the "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.
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Coping
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alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.
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Problem-focused coping
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attempting to alleviate stress directly- by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.
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Emotion-focused coping
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attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction.
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Learned helplessness
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the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
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External focus of control
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the perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate.
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Internal locus of control
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the perception that you control your own fate.
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Self control
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the ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long-term gratification for greater long-term reward.
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Aerobic exercise
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sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety.
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Feel-good, do-good phenomenon
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people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.
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Positive psychology
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the scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to flourish.
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Subjective well-being
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self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life.
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Adaptation-level phenomenon
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our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.
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Relative deprivation
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the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself.
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