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Stress
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the term used to describe the physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging.
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Stressors
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Events that cause a stress reaction
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Distress
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Occurs when people experience unpleasant stressors
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Eustress
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Optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being
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catastrophe
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an unpredictable, large scale event that creates a tremendous
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Daily Hassles
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Chronic things that are always there, such as relationship issues and financial issues and is the best predictor of our health and psychological well-being
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Pressure
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The psychological experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for a person's behavior that come from an outside source.
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frustration
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the psychological experience produced by the blocking of a desired goal or fulfillment of a perceived need
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Aggression
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Actions meant to harm or destroy
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Displaced Aggression
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cannot take it out on actual target so the person takes it out on someone else who will be the scapegoat and is less threatening
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Escape or withdrawal
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leaving the presence of a stressor, either literally or by a psychological withdrawal into fantasy, drug abuse, or apathy
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Approach-Approach Conflict
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conflict occurring when a person must choose between 2 desirable goals
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Approach-Avoidance Conflict
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Conflict occurring when a person must choose or not choose a goal that has both positive and negative aspects
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Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
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Conflict occurring when a person must choose between 2 undesirable goals
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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
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The three stages of the body's physiological reaction to stress, including alarm, resistance, and exhaustion (autonomic nervous system responsible for this)
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Alarm Reaction (Stage of GAS)
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Building up resources. The sympathetic nervous system is activated.
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Resistance Reaction (stage of GAS)
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Fighting off that stressor, and resisting it. Less able to deal with a 2nd stressor because everything was put into the 1st one. Will use up all of its resources.
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Exhaustion (last stage of GAS)
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when the bodily resources are fully depleted, death can occur but it has to be a physical stressor like a sickness.
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Immune System
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system of cells, organs, and chemicals in the body that responds to attacks on the body from diseases and injuries
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primary appraisal
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the first step assessing stress, which involves estimating the severity of the stressor and classifying it as either a threat or a challenge
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Secondary appraisal
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the second step in assessing a threat, which involves estimating the resources available to the person coping with the stressor
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Type A Behavior
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these type of people are workaholics, they are very competitive, ambitious, hate to waste time, and are easily annoyed. they suffer from cardiovascular health more often.
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Type B Behavior
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Not that competitive or driven,tend to be easygoing and slow to anger, and seem relaxed and at peace.
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Somatoform Disorder
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psychological disorder with physical symptoms that cannot be medically explained. Creating psychological symptoms that cannot happen
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repressive coping
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avoiding reminders of stressor trying to maintain a positive view
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rational coping
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facing the stressor effectively head on and working to overcome it
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reframing
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thinking of it as a challenge and not as a threat
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Ineffective Coping Methods
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Withdrawal, Self medicating, and Aggression
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Effective Coping Methods
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Removing stress, cognitive coping, and managing stress(breathing technique)
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