Sources of Stress
Reactions to Stress
Coping with Stress
Stress in your Life
Stress and Health
100
We feel this when we are unable to cope with certain tense events or situations
What is stress
100
Responses designed to prepare a person for self-defense
What is fight or flight responses
100
The interpretation of an event that helps determine its stress impact
What is cognitive appraisal
100
Ability to take care of oneself and make one's own decisions
What is Autonomy
100
A focusing of attention with the goal of clearing one's mind and producing an inner peace.
What is meditation
200
Another term for negative stress
What is distress
200
Hans Selye identified three stages in the bodies stress reaction: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. Selye called this what?
What is general adaption syndrome
200
a coping mechanism in which a person decides that the event is not really a stressor
What is denial
200
Combining old ideas with new ones and reorganizing feelings in order to renew one's identity
What is resynthesis
200
Lying down comfortably and tensing and relaxing the tension in each major muscle group in turn
What is progressive relaxation
300
This results from positive strivings and challenges that spice up our lives
What is Eustress
300
The most common response to a sudden and powerful stressor
What is Anxiety
300
Refers to the personality traits of control, commitment, and challenge that helps us reduce the stress we feel.
What is hardiness
300
The concept that women and men should receive equal pay for jobs calling for comparable skill and responsibilty
What is comparable worth
300
The hard but fun active coping strategy
What is humor
400
When an individual must choose between two attractive alternatives in called approach-approach
What is a conflict situation
400
This response is likely to result from a frustration
What is anger
400
Always puts the best face on any set of events
What is an optimist
400
Resources, Financial reward, Challenge, Relations with coworkers, and Comfort are identified as the five major sources for this
What is work satisfaction
400
Alcoholics Anonymous, weight watchers and crisis prevention centers all fulfill this purpose.
What is support groups
500
Losing your car keys is an example of minor, everyday stressor or this.
What is a hassle
500
These people are likely to have coronary artery disease, often followed by heart attacks, in their thirties and forties
What is Type A personality
500
The process of learning to control bodily states by monitoring the states to be controlled
What is Bio-feedback
500
Congress passed two major laws to prevent discrimination and income discrepancies between men and women.
What is Equal Pay act of 1963 and Civil Rights act of 1964
500
These are self-defeating and cause stress and prevent you from adjusting to life's challenges
What is an irrational assumption
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