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Eustress

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Pleasant desirable stress

Ex. Wedding

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Stress

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Nonspecific response of the body to any demand made on the arousal both physical and mental to situations or events that we perceive as threatening or challenging
Ex. Needing to finish homework

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Distress

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Unpleasant threatening stress

Ex. School work

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Chronic stress

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Day of ongoing arousal in which the parasympathetic system cannot activate the relaxation response
Ex. Bad marriage

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Job Stress

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Work related stress that includes role conflict and burnout

Ex. Bad bosses

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Role conflict

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Forced choice between two or more different in incompatible roll demands
Ex. Being a good student but having a job

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Burnout

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State of psychological and physical exhaustion resulting from chronic exposure to high levels of stress and little personal control
Ex. Burnt

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Hassles

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Small problems of daily living that accumulate and sometimes become a major source of stress
Ex. Daily chores

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frustration

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Unpleasant tension anxiety and high and sympathetic activity resulting from a blocked goal
Ex. Siblings

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Conflict

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Forced choice between two or more incompatible goals or impulses
Ex.

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Approach approach conflict

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Forced choice between two or more desirable alternatives

Ex. Getting icecream or getting wings

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Avoidance avoidance conflict

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Forced choice between two or more undesirable alternatives

Ex. Going to a funeral or gold tourament

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Approach avoidance conflict

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Forced choice between two or more alternatives both of which have desirable and undesirable results
Ex.

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Sam system

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Bodies initial rapid acting stress response involving the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenaline mature also called the sympath oh adrenaline medullary system

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hPA axis

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Bodies delayed stress response involving the hypothalamus pituitary and adrenal cortex

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Homeostasis

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Bodies tendency to maintain a relatively balanced and stable internal states such as a constant internal temperature
Ex. 98.6

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Gen. adaptation syndrome

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Selyes three stage alarm resistance exhaustion reaction to chronic stress
Ex. Freezing during a presentation

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Psychoneuroimmunology

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Indisciplinary field that studies the effects of psychological and other factors of them in system

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Type a personality

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Behavior characteristics including intense ambition, competition exaggerated time urgency and a cynical hostile outlook

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Type B personality

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Behavior characteristics consistent with the call patient relaxed attitude
Ex. My mom

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Hardiness

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Resilient personality with a strong commitment to personal goals control over life in viewing change as a challenge rather than a threat

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Post dramatic stress disorder

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Anxiety disorder following exposure to a life-threatening or other extreme event that about great poor or helplessness characterized by flashbacks nightmares and impaired functioning
Ex. Plane crashing

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Health psychology

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Studies how biological psychological and social factors interact in health & illness

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Binge drinking

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Occurs and men consume five or more drinks and when women consume four or more drinks in about two hours
Ex. Drink drank drunk

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Chronic pain

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Continue as a reoccurring pain over a period of six months or longer

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Primary appraisal

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Siding of the situation is harmful threatening or challenging
Ex. Viewing skydiving

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Secondary appraisal

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Assessing ones resources in choosing a coping method

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Emotion focused coping

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Managing one’s emotional reactions to the stressful situation
Ex. Being cool calm and collective

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Problem-solving and coping

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Dealing directly with the stressor to decrease or eliminate it
Ex. Hitting the problem straight on

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External locus of control

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Leaving the chances are outside sources Beyond one’s control determines one’s fate
Ex. God

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Interval locus of control

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Believing that one controls ones own fate

Ex. You do you

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