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Psych Chapter 3

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Stress   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   A trigger or stimulus that induces stress  
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Cataclysmic event   A stressful occurrence that occurs suddenly and generally affects many people simultaneously  
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Chronic stress   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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Conflict   A forced choice between two or more incompatible goals or impulses  
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Hassle   Small problems of daily living that may accumulate and become a major source of stress  
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Burnout   A state of psychological and physical exhaustion resulting from chronic exposure to high levels of stress, with little personal control  
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Frustration   The unpleasant tension, anxiety, and heightened sympathetic activity resulting from a blocked goal  
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SAM system   our body's initial, rapid-acting stress response, involving the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal medulla  
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HPA axis   our body's delayed stress response involving the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal cortex  
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Homeostasis   Our body's tendency to maintain equilibrium  
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Psychoneuroimmunology   The interdisciplinary field that studies the effects of psychological and other factors of the immune system  
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Positive affect   The experience or expression of positive feelings including happiness and enthusiasm  
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)   A long lasting, trauma and stressor-related disorder that overwhelms an individual's ability to cope  
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Health psychology   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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Problem focused coping   The strategies we use to deal directly with a stressor to eventually decrease or eliminate it  
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Emotion focused coping   The strategies we use to relieve or regulate our emotional reactions to a stressful situation  
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Defense Mechanisms   Freud's term for the strategies the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality  
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Interval locus of control   The belief that we control our own fate  
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External locus of fate   The belief that chance or outside forces beyond our control determine our fate  
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MBSR   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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