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Positive stress such as trying to reach a goal
What eustress?
100
Type A personalities are more likely to suffer from this illness.
What is coronary heart disease?
100
Beliefs people have that they can accomplish goals that they set for themselves.
What are self-efficacy expectations?
100
The immune system prevents disease by producing this.
What are white blood cells?
100
Reducing stress by running away from problems or using self-deception is an example of this.
What is defensive coping?
200
The least stressful type of conflict because the choices are positive.
What is the approach-approach conflict?
200
The event or situation that produces stress.
What is a stressor?
200
When people are in frightening situations, self-confidence reduces the level of this.
What is adrenaline?
200
The reason stress eventually exhausts people.
What is it stimulates their bodies to produce steroids?
200
Reducing stress by changing one's situation in socially acceptable ways.
What is active coping?
300
Responding violently to a stressful situation is an example of this.
What is defensive coping?
300
The most complex form of conflict in which each alternative has both good and bad aspects.
What is multiple approach-avoidance conflict?
300
In a study of business executives, those who were able to withstand stress the best had three personality characteristics.
What is commitment, challenge, and control?
300
Studies have shown that the immune system can be improved by these three things.
What is having many friends, reducing stress and improving coping skills or relaxation techniques?
300
Defensive coping may give people this.
What is give a person time to gather resources?
400
Name the three stages of the general adaptation syndrome.
What is the alarm reaction, the resistance stage, and the exhaustion stage?
400
Name four types of daily hassles.
What are household, health, time-pressure, inner-concern, environmental, financial, work and future-security hassles?
400
One study found that students with a sense of humor were able to do this.
What is experience less stress/reduce their amount of stress?
400
Name two types of treatments for headaches.
What are progressive relaxation and biofeedback?
400
Name one key component to the successful treatment of cancer.
What is having a "fighting spirit" ?
500
Conflict in which a person must choose the "lesser of two evils".
What is the avoidance-avoidance conflict?
500
Name five traits of a Type A personality.
What is always on the go, put pressure on themselves, constantly under stress, highly driven, competitive, impatient, always feel rushed, walk, talk, and eat faster than other people, and become angry quickly?
500
Name 5 ways to provide social support to a friend.
What is express concern by listening, provide physical relief by offering materials, offer information, provide feedback to help people, and socialize?
500
Name six behavioral changes that will help someone diagnosed with heart disease.
What is quit smoking, control weight, reduce hypertension, lower cholesterol, change type A behaviors, and exercise regularly?
500
Name three positive changes Americans need to make to their diet to decrease heart disease and cancer.
What is eat more fruits and vegetables, eat less meat/animal fats and dairy?