Don't Stress about it
Branch of the Autonomic Nervous System responsible for the fight or flight response, including increased heart rate, sweating and breathing fast.
What is sympathetic nervous system?
These are active efforts to master, reduce or tolerate demands created by stress
What is coping?
The ways that people perceive, attend to, store, make inferences about, remember, and use information and feelings about other people and the social world.
What is social cognition?
The strong tendency to interpret other people’s behavior as arising from internal causes rather than external ones
What is fundamental attributional error?
Stress triggers an aroused fight or flight response, diverting energy from this system.
What is the immune system?
The emotional predicament that people experience when making difficult choices.
What are internal conflicts?
These are the 3 ABC components of attitudes
What are affect, behavior, and cognitions?
When a mentality becomes increasingly extreme among people who interact without outside moderating influences from people with opposing viewpoints
What is group polarization?
Alarm, resistance, and exhaustion characterize the phases of:
What is general adaptation syndrome?
The cumulative wear and tear on the body necessary to maintain homeostasis in the face of stressors.
What is allostatic load?
Tendency to comply with a large request if one has previously complied with a small request
What is foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
An attitude (generally negative) toward members of a group.
What is prejudice?
The main stress hormone; high levels lead to impairment in immune system functioning and memory.
What is cortisol?
_________ focuses on changing the environment itself or the way the person interacts with the environment, while _______ focuses on changing the person’s emotional response to the stressor.
What is problem-focused coping; emotion-focused coping?
In making wedding preparations, Jason conforms to the expectations of his future bride's family simply to win their favor. His behavior illustrates the importance of __________ social influence.
What is normative social influence?
Professor Stewart wrote a very positive letter of recommendation for a student despite having doubts about her competence. Which theory best explains why he subsequently began to develop more favorable attitudes about the student's abilities?
What is cognitive dissonance?
A hostile person with a type A personality is most at risk for developing this.
What is heart disease?
These are 3 ways to cope with stress.
What are social support, exercise, relaxation training, biofeedback, and mediation, etc.?
The social phenomenon Asch was studying when he asked participants to judge which comparison line matched the original line.
What is conformity?
Who constructed this research project? It involved a teacher/participant presenting a word to the learner/confederate and shocking the person if their response in incorrect. Most of the teachers/participants went up to at least 150 volts and 62% went all the way up to 450 volts.
Who is Stanley Milgrim?