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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