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psychology
| stress | a persons reaction to his or her inability to cope with a certain tense event |
| stressor | a stress-producing event or situation |
| stress reaction | the bodys response to a stressor |
| distress | stress that stems from acute anxiety or pressured |
| eustress | positive stress, which results from motivating strivings and challenges |
| conflict situation | when a person must choose between two or more options that tend to result from opposing motives |
| social support | information that leads someone to believe that he or she is cared for, loved, respected, and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation |
| cognitive appraisal | the interpretation of an event that helps determine its stress impact |
| intellectualization | a coping mechanism in which the person analyzes a situation from an emotionally detached viewpoint |
| progressive relaxation | lying down comfortably and tensing and releasing the tension in each major muscle group in turn |
| biofeedback | the process of learning to control bodily states by monitoring the states to be controlled |