Question | Answer |
reaction to a situation that involves your mind, body, and behavior | emotion |
happiness, sadness, anger, and fear | primary emotions |
love, guilt, and shame | learned emotions |
a way of dealing with an uncomfortable or unbearable feeling or situation | coping strategies |
coping strategies that help you to protect yourself from difficult feelings | defense mechanisms |
refusing to recognize an emotion or problem | denial |
making up for weaknesses in one area by exelling in another | compensation |
making excuses for actions or feelings | rationalization |
reacting in a way opposite to the way you feel | reaction formation |
putting your own faults onto another person | projection |
returning to immature behaviors to express emotions | regression |
the response of your body and mind to being challenged or threatened | stress |
positive stress | eustress |
negative stress | distress |
an event or situation that causes stress | stressor |
4 types of stressors | major life changes, catastrophes, everyday problems, and environmental problems |
initial reaction of the body to stress | fight-or-flight response |
stages of stress | alarm stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage |
an illness that affects the mind and reduces a person's ability to fuction | mental illness |
generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, panic attack, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder | anxiety disorders |
bipolar and dpression | mood disorders |
severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior | schizophrenia |
display rigid patterns of behavior that make it difficult to get along with others | personality disorder |
mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to food | eating disorder |
person who doesn't eat enogh food to maintain a healthy weight | anorexia nervosa |
uncontrolled eating binges followed by purging, or removing, the food from their bodies | bulimia |
uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food | binge eating disorder |