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HED224 ch 3 terms
chapter 3 terms / definitions
Term | Definition |
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challange situations | positive events that may involve major life transitions and may cause stress |
distress | stress resulting from unpleasant stressors |
eustress | stress resulting from pleasant stressors |
harm-and-loss situations | stressful events that include death, loss of property, injury, and illness |
stress | the sum of physical and emotional reactions to any stimulus that disturbs the harmony of body and mind |
stressor | any physical or psychological situation that produces stress |
threat situations | events that cause stress because of a perception that harm or loss may occur |
flight-fight-freeze response | a defensive reaction that prepares the organism for conflict or escape by triggering hormonal, cardiovascular, metabolic, and other changes |
hypothalomo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis | a coordinated physiological response to stress involving the hypothalamus of the brain and the pituitary and adrenal glands |
general adaptation syndrome (GAS) | a three-phase biological response to stress |
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | physical and mental illnesses resulting from severe trauma |
coping | efforts to manage a stressful situation regardless of whether those effects are successful |
emotion-focused coping | appraising and accepting a stressful situation as not immediately changeable and adopting an attitude that lessens anxiety and brings comfort |
problem-focused coping | appraising a stressful situation as changeable and making and attempting a plan for changing something to improve things |
overload | the feeling that there are too many demands on one's time and energy from being confronted with too many challenges |