Finals Anxiety
This scientific term refers to positive stress resulting from challenging but attainable tasks.
Eustress
Spilling coffee, missing the bus, or a nagging sibling are all examples of this.
Daily Hassles
Choosing between two attractive goals, like movies or ice cream, creates this type of conflict.
Approach-Approach Conflict
This is the capacity to adapt, recover, and flourish following significant adversity.
Resilience
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Psychology
Modern researchers define stress as this process of perceiving and responding to challenging circumstances.
Appraisal
Events such as Hurricane Katrina or the COVID-19 quarantine, having to take finals, fall into this stressor category
Catastrophes
This coping strategy involves confronting a stressor directly to decrease or eliminate it.
Problem-Focused Coping
These individuals are defined by their tendency to anticipate positive outcomes and confidence in attaining goals.
Optimists
Who is considered the "Father of Psychology" because he was the first to try to scientifically study the workings of the mind?
Triple Points: What method did this father of Psychology Develop?
William Wundt
Triple Points: Introspection
This negative stress response often involves negative affect and high physiological reactivity.
Distress
Urbanization, overcrowding, and discrimination are categorized as this type of stressor.
Environmental Stress
Choosing between two "unattractive" options, like cleaning a room or studying for a hard exam, is this conflict.`
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
This term defines a sense of thankfulness in response to receiving a gift or a fortunate happenstance.
Gratitude
The unconscious mind and suppressed desires is the theory of what Psychologist?
Freud
This is the primary difference between acute and chronic stress.
What is a clear endpoint (for acute) vs. a long duration (for chronic)?
This type of stress is created by self-imposed demands or expectations to perform or conform
Pressure
Changing one's way of thinking about a stressor by approaching it differently is known as this strategy.
Appraisal-Focused Coping
This maladaptive strategy involves delaying a task to avoid feelings of self-doubt
Procrastination
B.F. Skinner was a prominent __________ who believed that behavior can be changed through rewards and past experiences.
Behavioralist
This term refers to the scientific measure of happiness and general life satisfaction.
Subjective Well-Being
Thinking for weeks about the possibility of being rejected by all colleges is an example of this specific stress.
Anticipatory Stress
"Reframing" a high-pressure situation as a challenge rather than a threat is a form of this.
Cognitive Restructuring
Refusing to acknowledge that something is wrong to avoid emotional conflict is this defense mechanism.
Denial
The __________ approach studies how we process information through perception, attention, language, memory, and thinking to understand our world.
Cognitive