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Stress |
Circumstance that threatens or is perceived to threaten one's well-being and taxes one's coping abilities. |
Threatens one's well-being |
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Primary Appraisal |
Intial evaluation of whether an event is irrelevant, relevant but not threatening, or stressful. |
Initial evaluation |
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Secondary Appraisal |
Evaluation of one's coping resources and options for dealing with stress. |
Evaluation |
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Ambient Stress |
Set of chronic environment conditions that are negatively valued and place adaptive demands on people. |
Set of chronic, adaptive demands |
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Accularation |
Act of changing adapt to a new group's set of beliefs and customs |
Act of changing, beliefs and customs |
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Acute Stressor |
Threatening event that had a relatively short duration and a clear endpoint. |
Short duration and clear endpoint. |
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Chronic Stressor |
Threatening event that had a relatively long duration and no readily apparent time limit. |
No readily apparent time limit |
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Anticpatory Stressor |
Upcoming or future event that is percieved to be threatening. |
Upcoming or future event |
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Approach-approach-Conflict |
Struggle in which a choice must be made between two attractive goals |
Two attractive goals |
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Avoidance-avoidance Conflict |
Struggle in which a choice must be made between two unattractive goals. |
Two unattractive goals |
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Emotion |
Powerful, largely uncontrollable feeling, accompanied by physiological changes. |
Uncontrollabe feeling |
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Fight-flight-response |
Physiological reaction to threat ghat mobilizes an organism for attacking or fleeing an enemy. |
Attacking or fleeing an enemy |
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Autonomic nervous system (ANS) |
Network of fibers that connect to the heart, blood vessels, smooth muscles, and glands. |
Network of fibers |
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General Adaption Syndrome |
Mofel of the body's stress response, consiting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. |
Three stages: alarm, resitance, and exhuastion |
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Endocrine System |
Network of glands that secrete chemicals called hormones into the blood stream. |
Network of glands, into the bloodstream |
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Neurogenesis |
Formation of new nerve cells. |
New nerve cells |
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Burnout |
Syndrome of physical and emotional exhaustion, and lowered sense of self-efficacy attributable to work-related stress. |
Exhaustion, work-related stress |
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
Ending psychological distrubance atrributed to the experience of a major traumatic event. |
Major traumatic event |
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Psychodynamic Disease |
Genuine physical aliment thought to be caused in part by stress and other psychological factors. |
Genuine physical aliment |
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Social Support |
Aid and succor provided by memberd of one's community networks. |
One's community networks |
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Hardiness |
Disposition marked by commitment, challenge, and control that is purportedly associated with strong stress resitstance. |
Disposition marked by commitment challenge and control. |
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Optimism |
General tendency to expect good outcomes. |
General tendency to expect |
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Behavior modification |
Systematic approach to chaning actions through the application of the principles of conditioning. |
Systematic approach to chaning actions |
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Antecendent |
Event that typically procedes a target resposnse. |
Procedes a target response |
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Token Economy |
System for doling out symbolic reinforcers that are exchanged later for various genuine reinforcers. |
System for doling out symbolic reinforcers |
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Shaping |
Modifying behavior by reinforcing closer and closer approximations of the desired response. |
Modifying behavior |
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Behavioral Contract |
Wrriten aggrement outlining a promise to adhere to the contingenecies of a conduct modification program. |
Written aggrement |
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Frustration |
Feeling that occurs in any situation in which the pursuit of some goals is thwarted. |
Goals is thwarted |
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Internal Conflict |
Struggle that occurs when two or more incompatible motivations compete for expression. |
Two or more incompatible compete for expression |
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Life Change |
Any noticeable alteration in one's living circumstances that require readjustment. |
Noticeable alteration, readjustment |
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Pressure |
Set of expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way. |
Expectations or demands behave in a certain way |