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Coping
Behavior
Conflict
100
Any event or circumstance that strains or exceeds an individuals ability to cope.
What is Stress
100
Attempts by individuals to deal with the source of stress and/or control their reactions to it.
What is Coping
100
The field of psychology that uses psychological principles to encourange healthy lifestyles and to minimize the impact of stress.
What is Health Psychology
100
Conflict in which the individual must choose between two positive goals of approximately equal value.
What is Approach-Approach Conflict
200
Psychologically significant events that occur in a persons life, such as a divorce, childbirth, or change in employment.
What is Life Events
200
Changing how a person thinks about or interprets a potentially stressfull event to reduce its stressfulness.
What is Reappraisal
200
A method of learning to deeply relax the muscles of the body.
What is Progressive Relaxation Training
200
Conflict in which the individual must choose between two negative outcomes of approximately equal value.
What is Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
300
The result of being unable to satisfy a motive.
What is Frustration
300
According to Freud, the unrealistic strategies used by the ego to discharge tension.
What is Defense Mechanisms
300
The ratio of a persons weight to that persons height.
What is Body Mass Index
300
Conflict in which achieving a positive goal will produce a negative outcome as well.
What is Approach-Avoidance Conflict
400
The state in which two or more motives cannot be satisfied because they interfere with one another.
What is Conflict
400
A common reaction to frustration and other stressful situations
What is Agression
400
Many individuals cope ineffectively with stress by using tobacco, alcohol and other drugs to soothe their emotional reactions to stress.
What is Self-Medication
400
Conflict that requires the individual to choose between two alternatives, each of which contains both positive and negative consequences.
What is Mulitple Approach-Avoidance Conflict
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