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The effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors
What is distress?
Actions meant to harm or destroy.
What is aggression?
Name the explanatory style: expect positive outcomes (glass is half full)
What is optimists?
Name the explanatory style: expect negative outcomes (glass is half empty)
What is pessimists?
the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being (positive stress)
What is eustress?
Stage where the body is no longer able to resist as resources have been depleted.
What is the exhaustion stage?
The system of cells, organs, and chemicals of the body that responds to attacks from diseases and injuries
What is immune system?
According to Lazarus, when faced with a potential stressor is to estimate its severity and to determine is it a challenge or threat. This evaluation is referred to as a ________.
What is primary appraisal?
Daily annoyances of everyday life
What is Hassles?
Stage where resistance drops at first as the sympathetic system quickly activates.
What is the alarm stage?
The _______ nervous system returns the body to normal after a stressful period.
What is parasympathetic?
The _______ nervous system causes heart rate to increase, digestion to slow down, and energy to be sent to the muscles to help deal with whatever action the stressful situation requires.
What is sympathetic?
unpredictable, large-scale event that creates a great need to adapt & have overwhelming feelings of threat.
What is Catastrophe?
The correct sequence of stages in General Adaptation Syndrome
What is the alarm, resistance and exhaustion stage?
The coping method that involves changing the way you feel or emotionally react to a stressor is known as ________.
What is emotion-focused coping?
A person who is ambitious, time conscious, extremely hardworking, easily annoyed, and tends to have high levels of hostility and anger - ____ personality
What is Type A?
Measures the amount of stress resulting from major life events over 1 year period
What is Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)?
After Eric has a terrible fight with his boyfriend, he returns home and yells at his dog for sleeping on the sofa. This is _____.
What is displaced aggression?
For someone who likes both movies and concerts, choosing between going to one or the other represents an ________ conflict.
What is approach-approach?
Type of conflict that occurs when a person must choose or not choose one goal or event that has both positive and negative aspects
What is approach-avoidance conflict?