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Vocabulary for Theme 8

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Stress   A person's reaction to his or her inability to cope with a certain tense event or situation.  
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Stressor   A stress producing event or situation.  
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Stress Reaction   The body's response to a stressor.  
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Distress   Stress that stems from acute anxiety or pressure.  
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Eustress   Positive stress, which results from motivating strivings and challenges.  
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Conflict Situation   When a person must choose between two or more options that tend to result from opposing motives.  
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Anxiety   A vague, generalized apprehension or feeling of danger.  
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Anger   The irate reaction likely to result from frustration.  
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Fear   The usual reaction when a stressor involves real or imagined danger.  
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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.  
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Cognitive Appraisal   The interpretation of an event that helps determine its stress impact.  
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Denial   A coping mechanism in which a person decides that the event is not really a stressor.  
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Intellectualization   A coping mechanism in which the person analyzes a situation from an emotionally detached viewpoint.  
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Progressive Relaxation   Lying down comfortably and tensing and releasing the tension in each major muscle group in turn.  
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Meditation   A focusing of attention with the goal of clearing one's mind and producing an "inner peace".  
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Biofeedback   The process of learning to control bodily states by monitoring the states to be controlled.  
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Autonomy   Ability to take care of oneself and makes one's own decisions.  
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Developmental Friendships   Friends force one another to reexamine their basic assumptions and perhaps adopt new ideas and beliefs.  
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Resynthesis   Combining old ideas with new ones and reorganizing feelings in order to renew one's identity.  
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Career   A vocation in which a person works at least a few years.  
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Comparable Worth   The concept that women and men should receive equal compensation for jobs caling for comparable skill and responsibility.  
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