Stress
Working through the autonomic pathway, this is a set of physiological changes that occur in response to psychological or physical threats.
What is the Fight or Flight response?
Lazarus and Folkman discuss coping using a cognitive framework that involves these TWO types of appraisals.
What are primary and secondary appraisals?
Whitson and Galinsky used this type of research design (experimental, correlational, observational).
What is experimental?
This is what zebras stress about.
What are short-term physical emergencies?
This positive coping strategy involves our ability to adjust and adapt as we deal with stressors - for example, how we adjust which strategy (problem-focused vs. emotional) is used at certain times.
What is cognitive flexibility?
In stress research, psychological strategies that people use to preserve a sense of nonrandom order when personal control is compromised is call this kind of control.
What is compensatory control?
In stress research, this is the study of the relationship between the immune system and nervous system functioning.
What is psychoneuroimmunology?
This positive coping strategy involves the ability to effectively recover from illness or adversity.
What is resilience?
In Whitson & Galinsky's study, whether or not participants received random or nonrandom feedback was this type of variable.
What is the independent variable?
Hans Selye developed the General Adaptation System (alarm, resistance, exhaustion). This is what's likely wrong with Selye's view.
What is 1) our stress response systems don't "exhaust", and 2) it does not accommodate psychological stressors.
Psychological factors moderate our ability to cope with stress - these THREE psychological factors all have the ability to both trigger and moderate the stress response.
What are social support, predictability, and control?
In Whitson & Galinsky's study, whether or not participants saw patterns in noise images where there were none was this type of variable.
What is the dependent variable?