Sources of Stress
The anxious or threatening feeling resulting from our appraisal of a situation and our reaction to demands placed upon us
What is stress?
Responses designed to prepare a person for self-defense
What is flight-or-flight?
Our interpretation or evaluation of an event that helps determine its stress impact
What is cognitive appraisal?
Ability to take care of oneself and make one's decisions
What is autonomy?
Conducted experiments by giving shocks to rats and discovered that less control equals more physical disorders
Who is J.M. Weiss?
Choosing between two or more options with opposing motives
What is conflict situation?
The body's natural defense system against infection
What is the immune system?
Focusing of attention with the goal of clearing one's mind
What is meditation?
When friends force one another to reexamine their basic assumptions and perhaps adopt new ideas and beliefs
What is developmental friendship?
Spent a decade studying how different students adjust to college life
Who is Peter Madison?
Day-to-day stressors that are relatively minor
What are hassles?
3 stages of stress reactions
What is alarm, resistance, and exhaustion?
Stimulates and provides an outlet for physical arousal ad may burn off stress hormones
What is exercise?
Theorists predict that people will change ___ several times in their lifetime
What are their careers?
Describes two different types of thinking: optimists and pessimists.
Who is Martin Seligman?
Deciding how to deal with a potentially stressful situation
What is secondary appraisal?
4 types of social support
What is emotional, appraisal, informational, and instrumental?
Technique for bringing back specific body processes under a conscious control
What is biofeedback?
Prohibits wage and salary discrimination for jobs that require equivalent skills and responsibilities
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
Devised a method called progressive relaxation that included meditation.
Who is Dr. Edmond Jacobson?
A stress-producing event or situation and the body's reaction to it
What is a stressor and stress reaction?
Common personality traits are coronary heart disease, fight-or-flight, free-floating hostility, and multitasking
What is Type A personality?
Denial, intellectualization, and acceptance are examples
What are defensive coping strategies?
The five major sources of work satisfaction
What is is financial rewards, resources, challenge, comfort, and relations with coworkers?
Distinguished two different types of stress - eustress and distress, and identified the three stages of stress reactions
Who is Hans Selye?