Unit 7.4 Flashcards
Stress and Coping
Stress
The process by which we appraise and cope with the environmental threats & challenges.
Stressors
Situation or event that causes us to feel stressed.
Approach-Approach Conflict
When there is a conflict between two appealing possibilities.
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Being simultaneously attracted to and repelled by the same goal.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
When there is a choice between two undesirable possibilities.
General Adaptation Syndrome
The physiological changes your body goes through when under stress.
1. Alarm Phase
2. Resistance Phase
3. Exhaustion
Richard Lazarus Theory
You experience emotion because you thought about it.
Awfulization
Negative way of explaining stressors assuming they will spiral out of control in the future to some horrible long-term future consequence.
Globalization
Negative way of explaining stressors where you take one bad thing and apply it to multiple situations.