Exploring Psychology- Myers 9th edition Chapter 11 Flashcards

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