Psych Of Personal Ch 3: Mystery Training

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Stress

Back 1

Circumstance that threatens or is perceived to threaten one's well-being and taxes one's coping abilities.

Hint 1

Threatens one's well-being

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Primary Appraisal

Back 2

Intial evaluation of whether an event is irrelevant, relevant but not threatening, or stressful.

Hint 2

Initial evaluation

Front 3

Secondary Appraisal

Back 3

Evaluation of one's coping resources and options for dealing with stress.

Hint 3

Evaluation

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Ambient Stress

Back 4

Set of chronic environment conditions that are negatively valued and place adaptive demands on people.

Hint 4

Set of chronic, adaptive demands

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Accularation

Back 5

Act of changing adapt to a new group's set of beliefs and customs

Hint 5

Act of changing, beliefs and customs

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Acute Stressor

Back 6

Threatening event that had a relatively short duration and a clear endpoint.

Hint 6

Short duration and clear endpoint.

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Chronic Stressor

Back 7

Threatening event that had a relatively long duration and no readily apparent time limit.

Hint 7

No readily apparent time limit

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Anticpatory Stressor

Back 8

Upcoming or future event that is percieved to be threatening.

Hint 8

Upcoming or future event

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Approach-approach-Conflict

Back 9

Struggle in which a choice must be made between two attractive goals

Hint 9

Two attractive goals

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Avoidance-avoidance Conflict

Back 10

Struggle in which a choice must be made between two unattractive goals.

Hint 10

Two unattractive goals

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Emotion

Back 11

Powerful, largely uncontrollable feeling, accompanied by physiological changes.

Hint 11

Uncontrollabe feeling

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Fight-flight-response

Back 12

Physiological reaction to threat ghat mobilizes an organism for attacking or fleeing an enemy.

Hint 12

Attacking or fleeing an enemy

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Autonomic nervous system (ANS)

Back 13

Network of fibers that connect to the heart, blood vessels, smooth muscles, and glands.

Hint 13

Network of fibers

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General Adaption Syndrome

Back 14

Mofel of the body's stress response, consiting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

Hint 14

Three stages: alarm, resitance, and exhuastion

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Endocrine System

Back 15

Network of glands that secrete chemicals called hormones into the blood stream.

Hint 15

Network of glands, into the bloodstream

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Neurogenesis

Back 16

Formation of new nerve cells.

Hint 16

New nerve cells

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Burnout

Back 17

Syndrome of physical and emotional exhaustion, and lowered sense of self-efficacy attributable to work-related stress.

Hint 17

Exhaustion, work-related stress

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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Back 18

Ending psychological distrubance atrributed to the experience of a major traumatic event.

Hint 18

Major traumatic event

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Psychodynamic Disease

Back 19

Genuine physical aliment thought to be caused in part by stress and other psychological factors.

Hint 19

Genuine physical aliment

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Social Support

Back 20

Aid and succor provided by memberd of one's community networks.

Hint 20

One's community networks

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Hardiness

Back 21

Disposition marked by commitment, challenge, and control that is purportedly associated with strong stress resitstance.

Hint 21

Disposition marked by commitment challenge and control.

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Optimism

Back 22

General tendency to expect good outcomes.

Hint 22

General tendency to expect

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Behavior modification

Back 23

Systematic approach to chaning actions through the application of the principles of conditioning.

Hint 23

Systematic approach to chaning actions

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Antecendent

Back 24

Event that typically procedes a target resposnse.

Hint 24

Procedes a target response

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Token Economy

Back 25

System for doling out symbolic reinforcers that are exchanged later for various genuine reinforcers.

Hint 25

System for doling out symbolic reinforcers

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Shaping

Back 26

Modifying behavior by reinforcing closer and closer approximations of the desired response.

Hint 26

Modifying behavior

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Behavioral Contract

Back 27

Wrriten aggrement outlining a promise to adhere to the contingenecies of a conduct modification program.

Hint 27

Written aggrement

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Frustration

Back 28

Feeling that occurs in any situation in which the pursuit of some goals is thwarted.

Hint 28

Goals is thwarted

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Internal Conflict

Back 29

Struggle that occurs when two or more incompatible motivations compete for expression.

Hint 29

Two or more incompatible compete for expression

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Life Change

Back 30

Any noticeable alteration in one's living circumstances that require readjustment.

Hint 30

Noticeable alteration, readjustment

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Pressure

Back 31

Set of expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way.

Hint 31

Expectations or demands behave in a certain way