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Behaviors that increase the chances of disease, injury, or premature death.
What is Behavioral Risk Factors
The first stage of general adaptation syndrome, during which body resources are mobilized to cope with a stressor
What is alarm reaction
Stressor
What is a specific condition or event that challenges or threatens a person.
Redirecting aggression to a target other than the actual source of one’s frustration.
What is displaced aggression?
Ambivalence
What is Mixed positive and negative feelings or simultaneous attraction and repulsion
A disease related to health-damaging personal habits
What is lifestyle disease
General Adaptation Syndrome
What is a three-stage model of stress response, consisting of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
Any distressing, day-to-day annoyance
What are hassles (microstressors)?
A stressful condition that occurs when a person must choose between incompatible or contradictory alternatives
What is conflict?
Denial
Protecting oneself from an unpleasant reality by refusing to acknowledge or perceive it.
health psychology
What is a study of how cognitive and behavioral principles can be used to prevent illness and promote physical well-being.
Pressure or demand placed on an organism to adjust or adapt.
What is stress?
Burnout
What is A work-related condition of mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion.
Escape
What is Reducing discomfort by leaving frustrating situations or by psychologically withdrawing from them.
Apprehension, dread, or uneasiness similar to fear but based on an unclear threat.
What is anxiety
Behavioral medicine
What is a medical specialty focused on the study of nonbiological factors influencing physical health and illness.
Stage of Exhaustion
What is the third stage of the general adaptation syndrome, at which time the body’s resources are exhausted and serious health consequences occur.
Deciding if a situation is relevant to oneself and if it is a threat.
What is primary appraisal?
Frustration
What is negative emotional state that occurs when one is prevented from reaching a goal
Attributing one’s own feelings, shortcomings, or unacceptable impulses to others
What is projection
A scale that rates the impact of various life events on the likelihood of illness
What is a Social Readjustment Rating Scale?
The second stage of the general adaptation syndrome, during which the body adjustments to stress stabilize, but at a high physical cost
What is stage of resistance?
Deciding how to cope with a threat or challenge
What is secondary appraisal?
Scapegoating
What is blaming a person or a group of people for the actions of others or for conditions not of their making
Rationalization
What is Creating false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior