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health and stress
Question | Answer |
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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 |