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Psychology Ch. 11
Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| general adaptation syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
| Type A personality | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people |
| Type B personality | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people |
| Wait, find a healthy distraction or support instead of ruminating, distance yourself | 3 methods of anger management |
| learned helplessness | the hopelessness and passive resignation humans and other animals learn when unable to avoid repeated aversive events |
| external locus of control | the perception that outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate |
| internal locus of control | the perception that we control our own fate |