Stress
The process by which we perceive and respond to circumstances that we appraise as challenging.
What is stress?
What is approach-approach?
Annoyance and Anger
What is an emotional response?
An active effort to master, reduce, or tolerate the demands created by stress.
What is coping?
True or False: An example of stress is worrying for weeks about what classmates thought about a presentation you gave even after receiving positive feedback from the teacher.
What is false?
A student wishes to pursue a graduate degree and has been accepted into two graduate programs and needs to make a decision about which one to attend
What is approach-approach?
Fear and Grief
What is an emotional response?
The mental exercise that clears negative thoughts for the purpose of reaching a heightened level of spiritual awareness
What is meditation?
True or false: Taking care of a loved one with cancer is an example of stress.
What is true?
An individual making a decision about taking a job that possesses both financial gain and prestige, but also contains a great deal of stress and long hours
What is approach-avoidant?
Autonomic Arousal
What is a physiological response?
Identify 3 unhealthy ways of coping
What is drinking, smoking, lashing out, self-harm, avoiding issues, overeating, etc.
What are the 4 major types of stress?
What is frustration, internal conflict, pressure, & change?
Taking a long vacation while falling behind at work
What is approach-avoidant?
Seeking help and releasing emotions
What is a behavioral response?
Largely unconscious reactions to protect from unpleasant emotions
What is Defensive coping?
What model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors.
What is Biopsychosocial model?
Choosing between a lower salary at work or unemployment
What is avoidant-avoidant?
Lashing out at others
What is a behavioral response?
Relatively healthful efforts that people make to deal with stressful events
What is Constructive coping?