Stress And Adaptation

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Adaptation

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Adjustment of living to other living things and environmental condition.

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Anxiety

Back 2

Vague sense of impending doom or apprehension precipitated by new and unknown experiences.

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Coping Mechanisms

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Patterns of behavior used to neutralize, deny, or counteract anxiety.

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Defense Mechanisms

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Forms of self-deception; unconscious process the self uses to protect itself from anxiety or threats to self-esteem.

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Fight or Flight Response

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The body prepares itself against threat, to either resist (fight) or evade (flight) the danger.

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General adaptation syndrome

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(GAS); biochemical model of stress describing the body’s general response to stress.

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Homeostasis

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Various physiologic and psychological mechanisms respond to changes in the internal and external environment to maintain a balanced state.

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Stress

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Condition in which the human system responds to change in its normal balanced state. The body’s reaction to any stimulus.

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Stressors

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Anything that causes a person to experience stress; change in the balanced state. A stimulus that evokes the need to adapt.