Cognitive, behavioral, and emotional ways in which people manage stressful situation
What is coping?
100
Girls and boys are socialized in different ways, creating life-long behavioral differences
What is socialization hypothesis?
100
the process by which we perceive and respond to events that are perceived as harmful, threatening, or challenging
What is stress?
100
An intensive, in-depth investigation of an individual
What is a case study?
100
The scientific study of the frequency, distribution, and causes of a particular disease or other health outcome in a population
What is epidemiology?
200
Coping strategy in which a person tries to control his or her emotional response to a stressor
What is emotion-focused coping?
200
When stressors are the same, gender is irrelevant
What is role-constraint hypothesis?
200
Outpouring of epinephrine, cortisol, and other hormones that prepare an organism to defend against a threat
What is fight-or-flight reaction?
200
people respond to a structured set of questions about their experiences, beliefs, behaviors or attitudes.
What is a survey?
200
the number of deaths due ?to a specific cause in a given group at a ?given time
What is mortality?
300
coping strategy for dealing directly with a stressor by reducing its ?demands or ?increasing one’s ?resources for ?meeting those ?demands
What is problem-focused coping?
300
May mitigate stress indirectly through the use of more effective coping strategies
What is the buffering hypothesis?
300
The body’s initial, rapid-acting response to stress
Involves the release of epinephrine and norepinephrine from the adrenal medulla
What is Sympatho-adreno-medullary (SAM) System?
300
Systematically observing and recording behaviors as they occur in their natural setting
What is naturalistic observation?
300
The number of new cases of a disease ?or condition that occur in a specific population within a defined time interval
What is incidence?
400
The ways in which people modulate their thinking, emotions, and behavior over time and across changing circumstances
What is regulatory control?
400
May enhance the body’s physical responses to challenging situations
Better immune functioning
Encourages healthier lifestyles
Better relationships with doctors, nurses, etc.
What is direct-effect hypothesis?
400
The experience of stress depends as much on how an event is appraised as ?it does on the event itself
What is the transactional model?
400
Statistical measure of the relationship between two variables
What is a correlation coefficient?
400
The total number of diagnosed cases ?of a disease or condition that exist ?at a given time
What is prevalence?
500
The ability of some children to spring back from sometimes overwhelming stressors
What is resilience?
500
A person’s propensity to attribute outcomes to positive causes or negative causes
What is explanatory style?
500
An individual’s susceptibility to stress and illness is determined by two interacting factors (predisposing and precipitating factors)
What is the diathesis-stress model?
500
A study in which a single group of people ?is observed over a long span of time
What is a longitudinal study?
500
A questioning approach to information that
Doesn’t blindly accept conclusions
Examines underlying assumptions
Evaluates evidence