Psych terms
This type of coping strategy targets a stressor directly in an attempt to fix the cause.
What is problem-focused coping?
Anti-apartheid activist in South Africa who was wrongly sent to prison.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The primary stress hormone.
What is cortisol?
Individuals with this mindset view failures as opportunities to learn and expand your abilities rather than a limitation.
What is a growth mindset?
The external resources and relationships that tend to heavily influence ones ability to demonstrate resilience. (Relationships, family, friends, and community)
What is social support
When a stressor cannot be changed, individuals use this type of coping to regulate or reduce their emotional response to it.
What is emotion-focused coping?
Completely blind and deaf person who altered how people view people with disabilities due to her will to learn.
Who is Helen Keller?
Part of anatomy that is responsible for calming the body down after a fight or flight situation.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Resilient people tend to possess this type of locus of control, firmly believing that they possess the power to influence their own outcomes.
What is an internal locus of control?
Authoritative parenting
This cognitive defense mechanism involves reframing a negative situation in a more positive light.
What is positive reappraisal (or rationalization)?
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This fear center of the limbic system in the brain may show less hyperactivity and better emotional regulation in highly resilient people.
What is the amygdala?
This initial cognitive step involves determining whether an incoming event is a threat, a challenge, or completely irrelevant.
What is primary appraisal?
This term refers to a child's inborn emotional and cognitive behavior. which can biologically predispose them to be more or less resilient to early life stress. (Often also used to describe dogs to families)
What is temperament?
This passive and pessimistic mindset is the opposite of resilience, where an individual learns to give up after repeated discomfort.
What is learned helplessness?
Physicist and genius who overcame a motor neuron disease. They are famous for their discoveries about black holes and theoretical physics.
Chronic stress can accelerate the shortening of these protective DNA protein caps, but high resilience and healthy coping habits help preserve them.
What are telomeres?
This specific personality, marked by anger, competitiveness, and hostility, is associated with lower stress resilience and a higher risk of heart disease.
What is a Type A personality?
This type of childhood attachment classification, characterized by a child's confidence in their caregiver's availability, serves as a big protective factor and predictor of high emotional resilience later in life.
What is secure attachment?
This psychological phenomenon describes positive, transformative growth and a deeper appreciation for life experienced as a direct result of struggling with a major crisis.
What is post-traumatic growth?
Revolutionizer of talk show format and has a very large media following. Overcame lots of issues throughout childhood and early adulthood with poverty, physical abuse, and giving birth to a premature son at 14.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Field of study that directly explores how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the human immune system.
What is psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)?
Defense mechanism that involves channeling grief, unacceptable impulses, or trauma into socially productive or creative outlets. Explains why people sometimes feel the desire to write or talk about traumatic situations. Hint: Same word as one of the ways that water can change states.
What is sublimation?
This biological phenomenon explains how positive environments and supportive relationships can physically alter genes without changing the actual DNA sequence. (How certain genes are expressed vs. repressed)
What is epigenetics?