Emotional Intelligence
It is the ability to exist in “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes their abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and can make a contribution to his or her community.”
Mental Health
It is the type of stress that becomes overwhelming, harmful, or unmanageable.
Distress
It is a negative mood state characterized by bodily symptoms of physical tension and by apprehension about the future.
Anxiety
It is a level of mental life where material that can be brought into awareness.
Preconscious
This type of conditioning is where a response to stimulus is evoked after repeated association with a stimulus that normally elicits a response.
Classical Conditioning
It is a perspective of subjective well-being that is a major but incomplete view, which includes pleasure and appreciation of life’s rewards.
Hedonia
These types of individuals tend to be highly driven, competitive, and time-urgent, but are more vulnerable to stress-related problems, such as anxiety, hypertension, and burnout.
Type A Personality
Characterized by restrictive food intake, intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted perception of body and weight.
Anorexia Nervosa
It is an early developmental stage where libido is dormant, and sexual urges are repressed.
Latency Stage
This type of conditioning sses consequence(s) to form or modify the occurrence of a behavior.
Operant Conditioning
It is the part of the brain that focuses on emotional processing (especially fear and threat, fight and flight).
Amygdala
Kobasa and her colleagues argue that if you perceive potentially stressful events as a challenge rather than a threat, less stress will result. What theory of stress is this?
Hardiness Theory
It is characterized by the presence of obsessions and/or compulsions, and causes significant distress and impairs daily functioning.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into “the realm of purposefulness and freedom”.
Transcendance
A type of operant conditioning by reinforcing a behavior by removing an unwanted stimulus.
Negative Reinforcement
One aspect of Carol Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being model, where one feels in control of one’s choices.
Autonomy
This is the presence of significant others with whom to discuss stressors. It is an important form of appraisal; it is the confidence in the ability to manage a demand/threat.
Social Support
It is a mix of mild depression with mild mania, chronic and long-term.
Cyclothymic Disorder
Individual psychology of Adler where each person is empowered with the freedom to create her or his own style of life.
Creative Power
It is a key component of classical conditioning where a formerly neutral stimulus that now elicits a response.
Conditioned Stimulus
A type of Gene-Environment Correlation where an individual's genetically influenced traits evoke specific responses from others, shaping their environment.
Evocative
A theory developed by Holmes and Rahe, it proposes that stress occurs when a situation requires more resources than are available.
Life-Events Theory
It is the recurrent pulling out of one’s hair, resulting in noticeable hair loss.
Trichotillomania
A final human need is for a ___________. Being split off from nature, humans need a road map, a frame of orientation, to make their way through the world.
Frame of Orientation
A schedule of reinforcement where the response is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses. This schedule creates a high, steady rate of responding.
Variable Ratio