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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.

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Stress

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the study of the effects of psychological factors such as stress, emotions, thoughts, and behavior on the immune system.

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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Events that cause a stress reaction

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Stressors

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The effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors

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Distress

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The effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being

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Eustress

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An unpredictable, large scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as overwhelming feelings of threat

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Catastrophe

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Assessment that measures the amount of stress in a persons life over a one-year period resulting from major life events

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Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)

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Assessment that measures the amount if stress in a college students life over a one-year period resulting from major life events

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College Undergraduate Stress Scale (CUSS)

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The daily annoyances of everyday life

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Hassles

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The psychological experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for a persons behavior that come from an outside source

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Pressure

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The psychological experience produced by the blocking of a desired goal or fulfillment of a perceived need

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Frustration

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Actions meant to harm or destroy

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Aggression

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Taking out ones frustrations on some less threatening or more available target, a form of displacement

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Displaced aggression

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Psychological defense mechanism in which emotional reactions and behavioral responses are shifted to targets that are more available or less threatening than the original target.

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Displacement

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Leaving the presence of a stressor, either literally or by psychological withdrawal into fantasy, drug abuse, or apathy

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Escape or withdrawal

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The psychological distress occurring when a person has to choose between different and incompatible or opposing goals

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Conflict

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Conflict occurring when a person must choose between two desirable goals

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Approach-approach conflict

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Conflict occurring when a person must choose between two undesirable goals

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Avoidance-avoidance conflict

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The three stages of the body’s physiological reaction to stress, including alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

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General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

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The system of cells, organs, and chemicals of the body that responds to attacks from diseases, infections, and injuries

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Immune system

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Disease involving failure of the pancreas to secrete enough insulin, necessitating medication, usually diagnosed before the age of 40 and can be associated with obesity

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Type 2 diabetes

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Immune system cell responsible for suppressing viruses ad destroying tumor cells

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Natural killer cell

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Area of psychology focusing on how physical activities, psychological traits, and social relationships affect overall health and rate of illnesses

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Health psychology

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The first step in assessing stress, which involves estimating the severity of a stressor and classifying it as either a threat or a challenge

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Primary appraisal

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The second step in assessing a threat, which involves estimating the resources available to the person for coping with the stressor
Secondary appraisal
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Person who is ambitious, time conscious, extremely hard-working, and tends to have high levels of hostility and anger as well as being easily annoyed
Type A
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Person who is relaxed and laid-back, less driven and less competitive than Type A, and slow to anger
Type B
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Pleasant but repressed person, who tends to internalize his or her anger as anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult
Type C
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A person who seems to thrive on stress but lacks the anger ad hostility of the Type A personality
Hardy personality
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People who expect positive outcomes
Optimists
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People who expect negative outcomes
Pessimists
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Negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration
Burnout
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Stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture
Acculturating stress
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The network of family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others who can offer support, comfort, or aid to a person in need
Social support system
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Hormone that is secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by increasing the level of glucose in the bloodstream
Glucagon
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A hormone secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by reducing the level of glucose in the bloodstream
Insulin
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A problem in sexual functioning
Sexual dysfunction
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Sexual problem caused by physical disorder or psychological stress
Organic or stress induced dysfunction
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Actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors
Coping strategies
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Coping strategies that try to eliminate the source of a stressor or reduce it's impact through direct actions
Problem-focused coping
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Coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor
Emotion-focused coping
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Mental series of exercises meant to refocus attention and achieve a trancelike state of consciousness
Meditation
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Form of meditation in which a person focuses the mind on some repetitive or unchanging stimulus so that the mind can be cleared of disturbing thoughts and the body can experience relaxation
Concentrative meditation
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Person who is ambitious, time conscious, extremely hard-working, and tends to have high levels of hostility and anger as well as being easily annoyed
Type A
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Person who is relaxed and laid-back, less driven and less competitive than Type A, and slow to anger
Type B
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Pleasant but repressed person, who tends to internalize his or her anger as anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult
Type C
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A person who seems to thrive on stress but lacks the anger ad hostility of the Type A personality
Hardy personality
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People who expect positive outcomes
Optimists
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People who expect negative outcomes
Pessimists
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Negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration
Burnout
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Stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture
Acculturating stress
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The network of family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others who can offer support, comfort, or aid to a person in need
Social support system
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Hormone that is secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by increasing the level of glucose in the bloodstream
Glucagon
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A hormone secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by reducing the level of glucose in the bloodstream
Insulin
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A problem in sexual functioning
Sexual dysfunction
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Sexual problem caused by physical disorder or psychological stress
Organic or stress induced dysfunction
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Actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors
Coping strategies
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Coping strategies that try to eliminate the source of a stressor or reduce it's impact through direct actions
Problem-focused coping
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Coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor
Emotion-focused coping
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Person who is ambitious, time conscious, extremely hard-working, and tends to have high levels of hostility and anger as well as being easily annoyed
Type A
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Person who is relaxed and laid-back, less driven and less competitive than Type A, and slow to anger
Type B
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Pleasant but repressed person, who tends to internalize his or her anger as anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult
Type C
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A person who seems to thrive on stress but lacks the anger ad hostility of the Type A personality
Hardy personality
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People who expect positive outcomes
Optimists
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People who expect negative outcomes
Pessimists
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Negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration
Burnout
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Stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture
Acculturating stress
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The network of family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others who can offer support, comfort, or aid to a person in need
Social support system
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Hormone that is secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by increasing the level of glucose in the bloodstream
Glucagon
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A hormone secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by reducing the level of glucose in the bloodstream
Insulin
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A problem in sexual functioning
Sexual dysfunction
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Sexual problem caused by physical disorder or psychological stress
Organic or stress induced dysfunction
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Actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors
Coping strategies
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Coping strategies that try to eliminate the source of a stressor or reduce it's impact through direct actions
Problem-focused coping
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Coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor
Emotion-focused coping
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Person who is ambitious, time conscious, extremely hard-working, and tends to have high levels of hostility and anger as well as being easily annoyed
Type A
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Person who is relaxed and laid-back, less driven and less competitive than Type A, and slow to anger
Type B
77
Pleasant but repressed person, who tends to internalize his or her anger as anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult
Type C
78
A person who seems to thrive on stress but lacks the anger ad hostility of the Type A personality
Hardy personality
79
People who expect positive outcomes
Optimists
80
People who expect negative outcomes
Pessimists
81
Negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration
Burnout
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Stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture
Acculturating stress
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The network of family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and others who can offer support, comfort, or aid to a person in need
Social support system
84
Hormone that is secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by increasing the level of glucose in the bloodstream
Glucagon
85
A hormone secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates in the body by reducing the level of glucose in the bloodstream
Insulin
86
A problem in sexual functioning
Sexual dysfunction
87
Sexual problem caused by physical disorder or psychological stress
Organic or stress induced dysfunction
88
Actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors
Coping strategies
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Coping strategies that try to eliminate the source of a stressor or reduce it's impact through direct actions
Problem-focused coping
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Coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor
Emotion-focused coping

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