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| 5384248441 | stress | the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. | 0 | |
| 5384248442 | general adaptation syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases--alarm, resistance, exhaustion. | 1 | |
| 5384248443 | tend and befriend | under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend). | 2 | |
| 5384248444 | health psychology | a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine. | 3 | |
| 5384248445 | psychoneuroimmunology | the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health. | 4 | |
| 5384248446 | coronary heart disease | the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries. | 5 | |
| 5384248447 | Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people. | 6 | |
| 5384248448 | Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people. | 7 | |
| 5384248449 | catharsis | in psychology, the idea that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. | 8 | |
| 5384248450 | coping | alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods. | 9 | |
| 5384248451 | problem-focused coping | attempting to alleviate stress directly--by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor. | 10 | |
| 5384248452 | emotion-focused coping | attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction. | 11 | |
| 5384248453 | learned helplessness | the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events. | 12 | |
| 5384248454 | external locus of control | the perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate. | 13 | |
| 5384248455 | internal locus of control | the perception that you control your own fate. | 14 | |
| 5384248456 | self-control | the ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long-term rewards. | 15 | |
| 5384248457 | aerobic exercise | sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety. | 16 | |
| 5384248458 | feel-good, do-good phenomenon | people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. | 17 | |
| 5384248459 | positive psychology | the scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to flourish. | 18 | |
| 5384248460 | subjective well-being | self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life. | 19 | |
| 5384248461 | adaptation-level phenomenon | our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. | 20 | |
| 5384248462 | relative deprivation | the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. | 21 |
