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| Stress is any circumstance that threatens or are preceived to threaten one's well being and that there by tax one's coping abilities. |
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| Defense mechanisms are largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt |
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| What is the use for biological models? |
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| The model holds physical illnesses is caused by a complex interaction of biological psyological and socialcultural factors. |
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| Coping refers to active efforts to master, reduce or tolerate the demands created by stress. |
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| What is Richard Lazarus credited for? |
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| The development of the hassle scale. |
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| Pressure involves expectatiions or demands that one behave in a certain way. |
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| Catharsis: To refer to a release of emotional tension. |
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| Aggresion is any behavior that is intended to hurt someone either physicaly or verbally. |
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| What is general adaptation syndrome? |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome is a model of the body's stress, responce consisting of three stages; alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. |
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| What is the fight or flight responce? |
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| The fight or flight responce is a physiological reaction to a threat in which the automatic nervous system mobilizes the organism for attacking or fleeing an enemy. |
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| Life changes are noticable alternations in one's living circumstances that require readjustments. |
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| What is an Avoidance conflict? |
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| Avoidance conflict is a choice between two unattractice choices |
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| What is an approach conflict? |
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| Approach conflict is a choice that is made between two attractive chocies |
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| Conflict oocurs when two or more incompatible motivations compete for expressions |
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| Frustration ocurs in any situationin which the pursuit of some goal is thwarted |
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| How does the brain react to stress? |
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| In times of stress the brain sends signals along 2 pathways. The pathway through the automatic nervous system and putuitary gland and endocrine system |
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