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Exam 3 Flashcards

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consciousness

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our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment

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change blindness

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failure to notice changes in the environment; a form of inattentional blindness.

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dual processing

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the principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks

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inattentional blindness

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failure to notice/encode features when our attention is elsewhere

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selective attention

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focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimuli

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blindsight

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the ability of people who are cortically blind to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see due to lesions in the primary visual cortex

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sleep

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a complex reversible neurobiological state characterized by closed eyes, behavioral quiescence, and perceptual disengagement from one’s surroundings

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circadian rhythm

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The natural cycle of physical, mental, and behavior changes that the body goes through in a 24-hour cycle.

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electroencephalogram EGG

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a test that measures electrical activity in the brain using small, metal discs (electrodes) attached to the scalp

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sleep stages

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Stage one, stage two, stage three, stage two, stage one REM.

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beta waves

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waking waves. these are tight lines

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alpha waves

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waking waves, but your brain is relaxed and typically preparing for sleep. these waves are spread apart but still tight

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NREM 1 initial sleep stage

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the brain waves look like beta but less tight. less brain activity. you can see random images as well.

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NREM 2 stage 2

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the waves start to go up, down, but are still a little tight and starting to go further apart. your body is in a deep state of relaxation.

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NREM 3 stage 3

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“slow waves” these waves are very far apart and very up and down. this stage is for memory consolidation. It’s hard to wake up.

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REM emergent stage 1

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these waves closely resemble alpha waking waves. this is the most important part of sleep. without it, people can’t seem to function well. we seem to have dreams during REM.

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REM rebound

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REM sleep is so important that if missed your brain will keep you in REM sleep longer the next time you sleep.

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dreams

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a state of consciousness characterized by sensory, cognitive and emotional occurrences during sleep

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activation synthesis theory

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when humans dream, the mind is trying to comprehend the brain activity that is taking place in the brain stem

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information processing theory

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sleep allows us to consolidate and process all of the information and memories that we have collected during the previous day

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developmental psychology

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a field of study that focuses on people’s change and growth across their lifespan

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nature vs nurture

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genes vs how one was raised

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genes

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The basic unit of heredity passed from parent to child

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continuity vs stages

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if someone’s personal evolutions happen in stages like pokémon or slowly evolve overtime

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stability vs change

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has someone been one kind of person their whole lives or has change happened?

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prenatal development

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the kind of development that happens in the womb

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zygote

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right after egg, for 2 weeks

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embryonic

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right after zygote

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fetal

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right after the embryo until birth

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chromosome

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DNA that is found in the nucleus of each cell.

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Down Syndrome

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extra chromosome

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huntington’s disease

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you don’t developed till you are older, but it’s genetic so you’ll def get it if your family has a history

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pruning

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the process in which the brain removes neurons and synapses that it does not need. This usually takes place when a person is 2–10 years old. disconnecting muscle responses and such

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myelination

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process of creating the myelin sheath that surrounds the axons of the nerves, forming an electrically insulating layer

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teratogens

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a substance that interferes with normal fetal development and causes congenital disabilities.

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fetal alchohol syndrome

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the wide range of physical, behavioral, and cognitive impairments that occur due to alcohol exposure before birth

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motor development

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developing motor control through synapse pruning

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sensory development

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enhances the use of your child’s senses by incorporating different colours, textures, noises and more into their early education

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social development

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development of relationships with others, their understanding of the meaning of their relationships with others, and their understanding of others’ behaviors, attitudes, and intentions.

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acuity

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sharpness of the mind. Things considered in determining a person’s mental acuity are memory, focus, concentration, and understanding.

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preferential looking

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to look at something for longer, typically of a baby to faces

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Habituation

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to get used to

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Dishabituation

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to become unused to

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Cognition

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how children think, explore and figure things out

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Jean Piaget

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children take an active role in the learning process, acting much like little scientists as they perform experiments

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sensorimotor

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first stage of development. Children learn how to perceive the world around them through the senses and such.

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schemas

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infants way of explaining the world—trying to make sense of things

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object permanence

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Being able to distinguish that an object still exists, even if you cannot see it

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Preoperational

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This is the second stage in development. Children in the states, do not understand conservation or theory of mind, but they have egocentrism and mind blindness.

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Concrete operational

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this stage lasts from ages 8 to 12 and is characterized by understanding conservation.

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conservation

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Understanding that the mass of something doesn’t change, even if the size of the container does

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Theory of mind

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Understanding that other people have different thoughts, emotions, and feelings

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Egocentrism

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The inability differentiate between the self and the other

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Autism

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a developmental disorder that affects information processing. People with autism have difficulties with social and communication skills. They have restricted interests and engage in repetitive behaviors.

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mind blindness

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inability to guess what someone else may be thinking

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Formal operational

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12 years of age and up. Abstract thought forms and so does theory of mind

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Sensation

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the process of the sensory organs transforming physical energy into neurological impulses the brain interprets as the five senses of vision, smell, taste, touch, and hearing.

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stimulus

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Something that triggers your sensory receptors

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Transduction

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In sensation, the transforming of stimulus energies into neural impulses our brains can interpret.

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Receptors

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the things that collect sensory input

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perception

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The way the mind organizes information that has been sensed

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absolute threshold

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Threshold in which a stimulus can half the time be brought into awareness, and half of the time not be

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Subliminal persuasion

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using weak stimulus that the brain doesn’t bring into awareness to influence somebody.

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Sensory adaption

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to get used to a stimulus and your brain stops bringing it to your awareness

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Wavelength

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Wavelength of light determines color and shade

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intensity

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Intensity of color is determined by up-and-down length of light waves

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optics of the eye

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Crystalline lens, cornea, pupil, retina

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Retina

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the part of the eye that senses the information going in

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fovea

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a small depression within the neurosensory retina where visual acuity is the highest

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optic nerve

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The nerves that sends visual information to the back of the brain through the thalamus

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Blindspot

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where the pupil is, you cannot see, because there is a hole in vision where the optic nerve goes into the head. the nose too

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rods

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these detect dim light very well and are more abundant

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Cones

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these detect colors and fine visual information very well. They are less abundant.

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Primary visual cortex

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The primary visual cortex is in the occipital lobe

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Feature detectors

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any of various hypothetical or actual mechanisms within the human information-processing system that respond selectively to specific distinguishing features

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figure-ground

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the organization of the visual field by separating an object (figure) from its surroundings (ground).

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gestalt grouping rules

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grouping things together based on how your mind organizes it, created by Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Kohle

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proximity

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grouping things based on closeness

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continuity

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grouping things based on continuing lines

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closure

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grouping things based on closure

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color consistency

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our ability to perceive colors as relatively constant over varying illuminations

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voodoo death

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so stressed about dying, that when you reach stress exhaustion you ACTUALLY DIE

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health psychology

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Health psychology examines how biological, social and psychological factors influence health and illness

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psychoneuroimmunolgy

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the study of the connection between psych, neuro, and immune system functions

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stressor

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something that has potential to cause stress

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stress reaction

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how you react to a stressor

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catastrophe

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a stressor categorized as natural disaster/life threatening situation

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significant life changes

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The type of stressor categorized by death of loved one, getting married/divorced, moving, graduating

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daily hassles and social stress

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a type of stressor caused by less permanent, daily tasks such as social interactions

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Water Cannon

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Walter Cannon and Philip Bard. Cannon-Bard theory states that we feel emotions and experience physiological reactions such as sweating, trembling, and muscle tension simultaneously.

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flight or response

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coined by walter cannon to describe key behaviors that occur in context to perceived threat

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cortisol

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stress hormone

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acute stress

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Acute stress is the overreaction to a minor stressor experienced on a daily basis.

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chronic stress

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Many people, over the course of their lives, have experienced acute stress, a dramatic physiological and psychological reaction to a specific event. Chronic stress, however, is a consistent sense of feeling pressured and overwhelmed over a long period of time.

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Hans Selye

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creator of general adaption syndrome (GAS)

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General adaption syndrome (GAS)

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describes the physiologic changes your body goes through as it responds to stress. These changes occur in stages: An alarm reaction (also called fight-or-flight) A resistance phase (in which your body recovers) A period of exhaustion (if your body fails to recover before being burnt out).

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coronary heart disease

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the most common heart condition caused by over stressing

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Type A personality

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someone who can’t chill out, needs to be doing something as soon as possible, worried about everything

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Type B personality

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this person can chill tf out and doesn’t stress excessively like type A persons do

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hostility

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mistrust, cynicism, and negative beliefs and attributions concerning others

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cope

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the way in which one deals with stressor

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tend and befriend

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usually women do this. you go to others for comfort

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problem focused coping

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you turn to the center of the problem to fix it so the stress goes away

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repressive coping

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if you don’t think about it, it’s not there!

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emotion focused coping

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if you are unable to fix a problem, most people turn toward emotion focused coping. you turn to making yourself feel better despite the ongoing stressor

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perceived control

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feeing like you are in control can make it way less stressful

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aerobic exercise

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this can do so much to counter stress and depression

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relaxation

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this is a great counter for stress, but not as powerful as aerobic exercise

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meditation

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this is a very powerful way to cope with stress. meditating clears mind. it retrains focus and reflection

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