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Psych Chapter 3

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show the interpretation of specific events as threatening or challenging the physical and psychological reactions to stress known as the stress response  
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Stressor   show
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Cataclysmic event   show
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show A continuous state of arousal in which demands are perceived as greater than the inner and outer resources available for dealing with them  
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show A forced choice between two or more incompatible goals or impulses  
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Hassle   show
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Burnout   show
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show The unpleasant tension, anxiety, and heightened sympathetic activity resulting from a blocked goal  
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show our body's initial, rapid-acting stress response, involving the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal medulla  
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HPA axis   show
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show Our body's tendency to maintain equilibrium  
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Psychoneuroimmunology   show
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show The experience or expression of positive feelings including happiness and enthusiasm  
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)   show
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show A subfield of psychology that studies how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they become ill  
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show The strategies we use to deal directly with a stressor to eventually decrease or eliminate it  
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Emotion focused coping   show
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show Freud's term for the strategies the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality  
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show The belief that we control our own fate  
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show The belief that chance or outside forces beyond our control determine our fate  
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show A stress reduction strategy based on developing a state of consciousness that attends to ongoing events in a receptive and non judgemental way  
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