| Question |
Answer |
| reaction to a situation that involves your mind, body, and behavior |
emotion |
| happiness, sadness, anger, and fear |
primary emotions |
| love, guilt, and shame |
learned emotions |
| a way of dealing with an uncomfortable or unbearable feeling or situation |
coping strategies |
| coping strategies that help you to protect yourself from difficult feelings |
defense mechanisms |
| refusing to recognize an emotion or problem |
denial |
| making up for weaknesses in one area by exelling in another |
compensation |
| making excuses for actions or feelings |
rationalization |
| reacting in a way opposite to the way you feel |
reaction formation |
| putting your own faults onto another person |
projection |
| returning to immature behaviors to express emotions |
regression |
| the response of your body and mind to being challenged or threatened |
stress |
| positive stress |
eustress |
| negative stress |
distress |
| an event or situation that causes stress |
stressor |
| 4 types of stressors |
major life changes, catastrophes, everyday problems, and environmental problems |
| initial reaction of the body to stress |
fight-or-flight response |
| stages of stress |
alarm stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage |
| an illness that affects the mind and reduces a person's ability to fuction |
mental illness |
| generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, panic attack, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder |
anxiety disorders |
| bipolar and dpression |
mood disorders |
| severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior |
schizophrenia |
| display rigid patterns of behavior that make it difficult to get along with others |
personality disorder |
| mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to food |
eating disorder |
| person who doesn't eat enogh food to maintain a healthy weight |
anorexia nervosa |
| uncontrolled eating binges followed by purging, or removing, the food from their bodies |
bulimia |
| uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food |
binge eating disorder |