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health and stress
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| health psychology | the study of physical health and illness by psychologists from various areas of specialisation |
| stress | an unpleasant state of arousal in which people perceive the demands of an event as taxing or exceeding their ability to statisfy or alter those demands |
| appraisal | the process by which people make judgements about the demands of an event as taxing or exceeding their ability to satisfy or alter those demands |
| eustress | good stress |
| two factor theory of emotion | views emotion as having two components (factors): physiological arousal and cognition |
| type A behaviour pattern | a apttern of behaviour characterised by extremes of competitive striving for achievement a sense of time urgenccy, hostility and aggression |
| slef-efficacy | a person belief that they are capable of the specific behaviour required to produce a desired outcome in a given situation |
| learned helplessness | a phenomenon in which experience with an uncontrolable event creates passive behaviour toward a subsequent threat to wll-being |
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