Stressors
Expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way.
What is Pressure?
A health-impairing behavior that is linked to various diseases and cancers.
What is Smoking?
Common name used for collapse in performance when in stressful situations.
What is "Choking?"
Form of coping that causes people to become dependent and less willing and able to deal with problems.
What is Substance Abuse?
Any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one's well-being and tax one's coping ability.
What is Stress?
When a choice must be made about whether to pursue a single goal that has both attractive and unattractive aspects.
What is Approach-Avoidance Conflict?
Involves physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and lowered sense of self-efficacy that can be brought on gradually by chronic stress.
What is Burnout?
General tendency to expect good outcomes that is linked to better stress management.
What is Optimism?
Consists of various controlled exercises that help people calm themselves.
What is Breathing?
The study of the relationship between psychological factors and the prevention and treatment of physical illness.
What is Health Psychology?
Experienced whenever the pursuit of some goal is thwarted.
What is Frustration?
Another name for the physical response that occurs during the Alarm Reaction Stage of GAS.
What is Fight-or-Flight?
Serves as a buffer during times of high stress, provides various types of aid and comfort from others.
What is Social Support?
Used to cope with frustrating situations, often heightens interpersonal conflicts.
What is Aggression?
Freud believed these protect the Ego from anxiety that may be produced by an awareness of unacceptable ideas or impulses.
What are Defense Mechanisms?
The experience of feeling stress depends on the context of the situation and how it affects that person specifically.
What is Appraisal?
Old name for genuine physical ailments that were thought to be caused in part by stress.
What are Psychosomatic Diseases?
Personality trait with 3 qualities that help people manage stress and be successful under pressure.
What is Psychological Hardiness?
Some people cope by avoiding people and situations that cause stress, can be physical or emotional.
What is Withdrawal?
Consists of glands located at various sites in the body that secrete hormones.
What is the Endocrine System?
Scale that measures life changes as a form of stress by assigning numerical values.
What is Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)?
This personality type involves behaviors that have been linked to developing coronary issues.
What is Type A Personality?
The beliefs people have that they can accomplish goals they set for themselves.
What are Self-Efficacy Expectations?
A therapist applies sensors to the patient's body that monitor responses to stress.
What is Biofeedback?
Idea that task performance improves with increased emotional arousal up to a certain point, then becomes disruptive and detrimental to performance.
What is the Inverted-U Hypothesis?