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Psych Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stress | the interpretation of specific events as threatening or challenging the physical and psychological reactions to stress known as the stress response |
| Stressor | A trigger or stimulus that induces stress |
| Cataclysmic event | A stressful occurrence that occurs suddenly and generally affects many people simultaneously |
| Chronic stress | A continuous state of arousal in which demands are perceived as greater than the inner and outer resources available for dealing with them |
| Conflict | A forced choice between two or more incompatible goals or impulses |
| Hassle | Small problems of daily living that may accumulate and become a major source of stress |
| Burnout | A state of psychological and physical exhaustion resulting from chronic exposure to high levels of stress, with little personal control |
| Frustration | The unpleasant tension, anxiety, and heightened sympathetic activity resulting from a blocked goal |
| SAM system | our body's initial, rapid-acting stress response, involving the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal medulla |
| HPA axis | our body's delayed stress response involving the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal cortex |
| Homeostasis | Our body's tendency to maintain equilibrium |
| Psychoneuroimmunology | The interdisciplinary field that studies the effects of psychological and other factors of the immune system |
| Positive affect | The experience or expression of positive feelings including happiness and enthusiasm |
| Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | A long lasting, trauma and stressor-related disorder that overwhelms an individual's ability to cope |
| Health psychology | A subfield of psychology that studies how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they become ill |
| Problem focused coping | The strategies we use to deal directly with a stressor to eventually decrease or eliminate it |
| Emotion focused coping | The strategies we use to relieve or regulate our emotional reactions to a stressful situation |
| Defense Mechanisms | Freud's term for the strategies the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality |
| Interval locus of control | The belief that we control our own fate |
| External locus of fate | The belief that chance or outside forces beyond our control determine our fate |
| MBSR | A stress reduction strategy based on developing a state of consciousness that attends to ongoing events in a receptive and non judgemental way |
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