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Stress

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A state involving physical and/or emotional strain that results from threats or challenges

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Eustress

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A positive form of stress

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Acute Stress

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Stress response was of a fairly brief duration

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Episodic Stress

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Regularly experiencing stressful situations that start and end

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Chronic Stress

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Stress that is experienced as uncontrollable or never ending

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Transactional Theory of Stress

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Lazarus, the degree of stress experienced by an individual is determined by how he or she appraises the stressor

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Cortisol

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A stress hormone that is produced by the adrenal cortex that acts to increase the amount of glucose in the bloodstream, help the brain utilize more glucose, and make it easier for tissues to repair themselves

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Immune System

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The body’s system of cells, cell products, and cell-producing tissues, that protect the body from infections, viruses, foreign substances, and malignant cells

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Lymphocytes

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White blood cells that fight cancer, bacteria, and other foreign substances that enter the body

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Viral Challenge Studies

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Intentionally exposing healthy research participants to viruses and then observing who becomes ill and measuring the intensity of their symptoms

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Glucocorticoid Receptor Resistance

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A condition in which immune cells lose sensitivity to hormones that tell them to stop the inflammatory response

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Coronary Heart Disease

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Occurs when plaque builds up in arteries making it hard for blood to travel through them

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Type A Personality

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People who are ambitious, driven, competitive, anger-prone, impatient, time conscious, and achievement oriented

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Type B Personality

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More relaxed, care-free attitudes, cooperative tendencies, patience, even-tempered, and reflective

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Psychological Defense Mechanism

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Used to describe automatic, involuntary, and implicit, forms of regulating emotions and/or self-image

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Coping

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The use of deliberate strategies that seek to eliminate or reduce threats and challenges and/or to better regulate internal stress reactions to mitigate the risk for negative effects

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Problem-Focused Coping Efforts

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To directly address the stressor or the problems the stressor creates. 1) elimination of the stressor, 2) elimination of a problem, and 3) directly addressing future problems created by the stressor

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Emotion-focused Coping Efforts

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Strategies which seek to reduce the negative impacts of the ongoing stressor by taking steps to managing how one feels, thinks, and responds behaviorally to the stressor

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Rumination

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Focusing on a stressor and thinking about it in a repetitive manner, over and over, without taking steps to address it

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Meaning-Focused Coping

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Considering beliefs and values to either re-frame how they view stressors or to alter how they are managing stressors

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Reappraisal

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Deliberate efforts to framing the stress in manner that gives it a neutral or positive meaning

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Biopsychosocial Model

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George Engels, puts forth the idea that biological factors (e.g., genetics) and processes (e.g., heart rate) influence and are influenced by psychological traits (e.g., your typical mood) and states (your immediate mood) which influences and is influenced by chronic social factors (e.g., access to social support; socio-economic status) and immediate social processes (e.g., are you performing a task in front of others or not)

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Health psychology

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The study of how psychological and behavioral processes interact to impact health, illness, and well-being, as well as the development and study of clinical applications designed to improve health-related outcomes

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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An area of stress research focusing on how psychological states and behavior interact with physical systems involved in stress to influence the immune system

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Clinical Psychology

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The broad field within psychology that concerns itself with the study of mental health and the application of findings from across psychology for use in the identification, diagnosis, and treatment, of mental-health related issues

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Biofeedback

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Interventions that show patients’ physiological signals as part of treatment interventions

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Behavioral Medicine

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A specific arm of clinical health psychology that focuses on applying behavioral principles primarily for treating medical disorders, improving compliance with difficult treatment protocols, and improving overall treatment course

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Treatment Compliance

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The degree to which a patient follows medical advice and adheres to his or her treatment protocol

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Primary Prevention

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Efforts targeting individuals who have not yet been effected by a problem or condition and striving to reduce their risk

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Secondary Prevention

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The early identification and rapid intervention to address problems and conditions and reduce the likelihood of poor outcomes

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Tertiary Prevention

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Steps taken to help individuals reduce long-term risks associated with having an ongoing condition or problem when possible and/or to relieve suffering as much as possible

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Intention

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Cognitive representation of one’s readiness to perform a given action

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SMART Goals

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Goals that are stated in specific terms, allow progress to be measured, are attainable, are relevant to other longer-term goals, and are time-bound

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Perceived Behavioral Control

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One’s perception that they are able to control things that create the desired outcome

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Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of Change

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Involves five stages that emphasizes deciding to change, attempting to change, and maintaining changes over time

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Change Talk

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When people make statements about the pros and cons of change

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Commitment Talk

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A specific form of change talk, which involves statements by the patient indicating that they intend to try to make a change

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Positive Psychology

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The field focusing on factors that contribute to well-being, human flourishing, and optimal outcomes

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Humanistic Psychology

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A movement in psychology that emphasized free will, “uniquely” human experiences, growth experiences, and motivation for fulfillment

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Peak Experience

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Maslow, relatively rare moments where one feels in harmony with one’s immediate environment and one’s self

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Flow State

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An internal state in which a person is fully immersed and focused on an activity while experiencing a sense of purpose

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Broaden-and-Build Model

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Suggests that positive emotions not only serve a basic motivational function, but broaden people’s momentary thought-action repertoires and help them further develop enduring resources

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Emotional Film Clip Study

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Participants viewed short film clips known to induce positive feelings, negative feelings, or a neutral state. Participants were then given a piece of paper and asked to write down all the things they felt like doing. Participants who viewed the film clips that induced positive emotions wrote down more things than those who viewed neutral or negative induction films

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Gratitude

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A felt state of wonder and appreciation for life, others, and things

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The Ongoing Writing Study

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67 individuals who were followed for four-weeks, participants were randomly assigned to different groups. The first group were asked to regularly do an exercise that involved writing down what they were grateful for at regular intervals over the course of four weeks. Those in the gratitude group experienced an increase in their experience of positive emotion over the course of four weeks. These studies suggest that intentionally activating a grateful mindset tends to bring on positive emotions that will broaden one’s perspective and help him or her develop resources

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Resilience

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The ability to cope with, positively approach, and recover from adversity and challenges

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Subjective Well-Being

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Individuals’ cognitive and emotional evaluations of happiness and the overall quality of their current lives

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Tripartite Model

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SWB involves frequent positive emotion, infrequent negative emotion, and a positive cognitive evaluation of life satisfaction

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Longitudinal Nun Study

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Danner, Snowdon, and Friesen, these authors found that nuns who had higher SWB lived about 10 years longer than those with low SWB

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