stress

Question 1

the process of perceiving and responding to stressors

Answer 1

stress

Question 2

things appraised as threatening or challenging

Answer 2

stressors

Question 3

the evaluation of stimulus to decide whether it is threatening or not

Answer 3

appraisal

Question 4

a situation when a person is driven to make a decision based on conflicting goals

Answer 4

motivational conflicts theory

Question 5

two attractive but incompatible goals

Answer 5

approach-approach conflict

motivational conflicts theory

Question 6

conflict between two undesirable goals

Answer 6

avoidance-avoidance conflict

motivational conflicts theory

Question 7

conflict between an attractive and an undesirable goal

Answer 7

approach-avoidance conflict

motivational conflicts theory

Question 8

Selye’s concept of the body’s response to stress: alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion

Answer 8

general adaptation syndrome [GAS]

Question 9

sympathetic nervous system activates

Answer 9

alarm reaction

Question 10

resources are summoned to repair body after initial shock of stress; adrenal gland releases hormones

Answer 10

resistance

Question 11

physical vulnerability after depleting energy resources

Answer 11

exhaustion

Question 12

under stress, people often provide support to others, bond with, and seek support from others

Answer 12

tend-and-befriend response

Question 13

subfield of psychology that provides contribution to behavioral medicine

Answer 13

health psychology

Question 14

study of how psychological, neural, endocrine processes together affect the immune system & resulting health

Answer 14

psychoneuralimmunology

Question 15

releasing in order to relieve strong or repressed emotions

Answer 15

catharsis

Question 16

sustained exercise that increases heart & lung fitness; helps alleviate depression and anxiety

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aerobic exercise

Question 17

a reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner

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mindfulness meditation

Question 18

people’s tendency to be helpful when in a good mood

Answer 18

feel-good do-good phenomenon

Question 19

self-perceived happiness and satisfaction with life

Answer 19

subjective well-being

Question 20

the tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral subject defined by prior experience

Answer 20

adaptation-level phenomenon

Question 21

the clogging of vessels that nourish the heart muscle

Answer 21

coronary heart disease

Question 22

the perception that one is worse off relative to those whom one compares themself too

Answer 22

relative deprivation