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Stress and Stressors
Conflict
Psycological Stressors
Physiological Factors
Miscellaneous
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The term used to describe the physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging?
What is stress?
100
The type of conflict occurring when a person must choose between two desirable goals.
What is approach-approach conflict?
100
The psychological experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for a person's behavior that come from an outside source.
What is pressure?
100
The stage of GAS when the body first reacts to a stressor, the sympathetic nervous system is activated.
What is the alarm stage?
100
The expanded form of ANS.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
200
The events that cause a stress reaction.
What are stressors?
200
The type of conflict in which the person must decide between more than two goals, with each goal possessing both positive and negative aspects.
What is multiple approach-avoidance conflict?
200
Actions meant to harm or destroy.
What is aggression?
200
The system of cells, organs, and chemicals of the body that responds to attacks from diseases, infections, and injuries.
What is the immune system?
200
The effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors.
What is distress?
300
An unpredictable, large-scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as overwhelming feelings of threat.
What is a catastrophe?
300
The type of conflict occuring when a person must choose between two undesirable goals.
What is avoidance-avoidance conflict?
300
The psychological experience produced by the blocking of a desired goal or fulfillment of a perceived need.
What is frustration?
300
A chronic illness sometimes associated with excessive weight gain.
What is diabetes.
300

Taking you frustration on a less threatening more vunerable thing

What is displaced aggression

400
The daily annoyances of everday life.
What are hassles?
400
The type of conflict in which the person must decide between two goals, with each goal possessing both positive and negative aspects.
What is double approach-avoidance conflict?
400
Occur when the goal or need cannot be attained because of internal or personal characteristics.
What are internal frustrations?
400
The three stages of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS).
What is the alarm stage, the resistance stage, and the exhaustion stage?
400
The continuation of efforts to get around whatever is causing frustration.
What is persistence?
500
The effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being.
What is eustress?
500
Type of conflict occurring when a person must choose or not choose a goal that has both positive and negative aspects.
What is approach-avoidance conflict?
500
The connection between frustration and aggression proposed by early psychologists.
What is the frustration-aggression hypothesis?
500
An immune-system cell responsible for suppressing viruses and destroying tumor cells.
What is natural killer (KT) cell?
500

Estimating the servity of a stressor and classifying it as a threat, challenge or a harm /loss that already occurred.

What is primary appraisals in Lazurus's Cognitive appraisal approach