This type of behavior impairs an individual's ability to function adequately in everyday life.
What is maladaptivity?
100
This is the most desirable way to reduce the immediate effects of a stressor and include changing stressful thoughts, relaxation , and exercise.
What is active coping?
100
This mood disorder is characterized by dramatic ups and downs.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
100
This is the reference used to classify mental disorders and describe the symptoms of each.
What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
200
This is when a person has an unrealistic preoccupation with thoughts that he or she has a serious disease.
What is hypochondriasis?
200
These are the sources of stress that blocks us from obtaining our goals
What is frustration?
200
This is a personality characteristic that helps people withstand stress due to the person's ideas of commitment, seeking out of challenges, and being in control.
What is psychological hardiness?
200
This disorder is characterized by hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders, and a loss of contact with reality.
What is schizophrenia?
200
This type of personality is characterized as intense and always on the go. They are in greater danger of suffering coronary heart disease.
What is Type A Personality?
300
This disorder typically involves feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, worthlessness, guilt, and great sadness.
What is depression?
300
This is a choice of whether or not to do something when part of the situation is attractive but the other is not.
What is approach-avoidance conflict?
300
This is the expression of psychological distress through physical symptoms.
What is somatization?
300
This stage of the GAS is characterized by not being able to secrete hormones and heart and breathing rates slowing down.
What is the exhaustion stage?
400
These arte behavior patterns or mental processes that cause serious personal suffering or interfere with a person's ability to cope with everyday life.
What are psychological disorders?
400
This type of conflict is when each of several alternative courses of action has its advantages and disadvantages
What is multiple approach-avoidance conflict?
400
This type of coping includes substance abuse, aggression, withdrawal, and suicide.
What are defense mechanisms?
400
These disorders include panic attacks, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, and PTSD?
What is an anxiety disorder?
400
This, the most common of anxiety disorders, refers to a a persistent, excessive, or irrational fear of a particular object or situation.
What is a phobia?
500
This kind of positive stress can be a sign that a person is taking on a challenge or trying to reach a goal.
What is eustress?
500
Sigmund Freud believed that these protected the ego from anxiety that may be produced by an awareness of unacceptable ideas or impulses
What are defensive mechanisms?
500
This is the separation of certain personality components or mental processes from conscious thought.
What is disassociation?
500
These are periods of extreme excitement characterized by hyperactivity and chaotic behaviors.