Stress
A physical response to help you prepare for danger
What is fight-or-flight
A state of deficiency that can either be biological or social
What is a need
An immediate, specific, negative, or positive response to environmental events or internal thoughts
What is emotion
Treating yourself with care, acceptance, and kindness during difficult times, just as you would treat a good friend
What is self-compassion
All the information you have about yourself
What is self-schema
Changes or disruptions that strain central areas of people's lives
What is major life stressors
A psychological state that motivates a person to satisfy a need
What is drive
Blends of primary emotions
What is secondary emotions
Contrasting yourself with people whom you view as inferior to yourself in the characteristics you are evaluating
What is downward comparison
Consists of a person's typical thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable over time and across circumstances
What is personality
A coping style that prevents an emotional response
What is emotion-focused coping
What are incentives
Spread-out, long-lasting emotional states that do not have an identifiable object or trigger
What are moods
People with high self-esteem tend to take credit for success but blame failure on outside factors
What is self-serving bias
The immediate experience of the self in the here and now
What is working self-concept
The three stages of the general adaptation syndrome in correct order
what is alarm, resistance, exhaustion
The expectation that your efforts will lead to success
What is self-efficacy
How negative or positive an emotion is
What is valence
A defensive mechanism in which people express the opposite of their true feelings
What is reaction formation
Most people describe themselves as above average in nearly every way
What is the better-than-average affect
Females respond to stress by protecting their offspring and forming alliances with social groups
What is the tend-and-befriend response
Describes the relationship between arousal, motivation, and performance
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law
States the need for social relationships is a fundamental motivator that has evolved for adaptive reasons
What is the need to belong theory
A device that unobtrusively tracks your real-world moment-to-moment interactions, picking up snippets of conversation and other auditory information
What is an electronically activated record
A form of downward comparison where people view their current selves as better than their former selves
What is temporal comparison