STRESS
This nervous system is activated during the body's acute stress response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
significant difficulties regulating emotions, maintaining stable relationships, and having a consistent sense of self
What is Bipolar Personality Disorder?
Prejudices originate in people's unconscious.
What is Früdes Theory on Prejudice?
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
What is the Big Five Test?
Chronic stress can negatively affect this part of the brain, which is crucial for memory.
What are the physical symptoms of stress?
This hormone, often called the "stress hormone," is released during the body's fight-or-flight response.
What is cortisol?
This childhood neurodevelopmental disorder is characterized by difficulties with social interaction and repetitive behaviors.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
According to this theory by Schachter and Singer, emotion results from both physiological arousal and a cognitive label.
What is the Two-Factor theory of Emotion?
This type of personality, labeled in cardiovascular research, is associated with competitiveness, impatience, and hostility.
What is Type A?
This type of stress, considered "good stress," can be motivating and improve performance.
What is Acute Stress?
The three-stage model of the body’s response to stress was proposed by Hans Selye and is called this.
What is General Adaptation syndrome?
People with this eating disorder often binge eat followed by purging behaviors such as vomiting or excessive exercise.
What is Bulimia Eating Disorder?
Lev Vygotsky emphasized the importance of this "zone" in learning, which lies between what a learner can do alone and with help.
What is the zone of proximal development?
This Jungian concept refers to the "mask" a person presents to the world.
What is Persona?
This theory suggests that stress results from the mismatch between demands and the perceived resources to cope.
What is transactional model of stress and coping?
The "tend and befriend" response to stress is more commonly observed in this gender.
What is Female?
This disorder involves the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states within one individual.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This theory by Noam Chomsky argues that humans are born with an innate ability to acquire language.
What is the nativist theory of language (or Universal Grammar)?
According to Alfred Adler, this feeling is a driving force behind much of human behavior.
What is Inferiority?
This term refers to the process of evaluating whether a stressor is a threat, a challenge, or irrelevant.
What is primary appraisal?
Chronic stress can negatively affect this part of the brain, which is crucial for memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
This cluster of personality disorders is marked by dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior.
What is Cluster B?
According to this theory by Carol Gilligan, moral development differs between genders, emphasizing care and relationships over justice.
What is ethics of Care Theory?
In trait theory, this statistical method is used to identify clusters of related traits.
What is Factor Analysis?
This physiological concept refers to the cumulative wear and tear on the body due to chronic stress.
What is allostatic load?