Are we okay?
When a person determines if an event is positive, negative or neutral
What is Primary Appraisal
A coping style that prioritizes taking action and confronting the problem. This style also indicates greater adaptability.
What is an Approach
This difference is that one is the negative emotional experience, while the other is an event that causes the negative emotional experience
What is the difference between stress and stressor
True or false: Stress impacts a person cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally.
True
These are the 3 factors to assess a situation's negativity
What are harm, threat, and challenge
Exercise, listening to music, and journaling are all examples of this kind of coping style.
What are examples of emotion-focused coping
The aggressive response to stress
What is fight
True or false: under a stressful situation, everything works to be more efficient
True
This law implies that medium arousal is necessary for high performance, hence not all stress is bad
What is Yerkes-Dodson Law
Coping Style that is comparable to the "flight or flight" response
What is Avoidance
This is the hormone released during stress, as well as in mother-child relationships
What is Oxytocin
These are some modern examples of fight and flight responses
What are anger and action-centered responses (fight) and social withdrawal and substance and alcohol abuse (flight)
This is chronic and affects a person's mental and physical health more significantly than major life events
What is a hassle
An effective, healthy coping style that involves doing something constructive in order to deal with the stressor
What is problem-focused coping
This is defined as "The degree of change that occurs in physiological responses to stress."
What is reactivity
What are negativity, uncontrollability, personal importance, ambiguity, and overload