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19 Cards in this Set
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stressors
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-life events and transitions punctuate ours lives
-chronic stressors are always present -everyday hassles are typical of daily life |
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mediating variables
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genetically influenced vulnerbility/resistance
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personality styles: Type A
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competitive, easily angered journalist
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personality styles: Type B
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more laid back
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physical stressors
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cardiovascular
gastrointestinal |
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psychological stressors
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depression
substance abuse |
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problem focused coping strategy
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focus on fixing problem, direct
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emotion focused coping strategy
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focus on reframing the problem
altering response seeking support ex: call supportive friend to talk about frustrations |
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never get too HALT
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hungry
angry lonely tired |
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adaptation processes
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appraisal of threat
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perceived stress response
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activation of sympathetic nervous system creates the feeling of stress
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stress hormone
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cortisol
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repression
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basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memory from consciousness
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regression
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when faced with anxiety, retreat to a more infantile stage
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reaction formation
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ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites.
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projection
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people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
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rationalization
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offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for ones actions
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displacement
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shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward more acceptable or less threatening object or person.
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collective unconscious
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jung's concept of shared, inherited reservoir of memory from our speceis history
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