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| the tension, discomfort, or physical symptoms that arise when a stressor strains our ability to cope effectively |
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| an event so severe that it has the potential to produce long-term psychological or health consequences |
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| varied reactions to the same event suggest that we can view stress as a transaction between people and their enviornments |
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| focuses on identifying different types of stressful events |
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| people's psychological and physical reaction to stressful circumstances |
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| stress reaction that mobilizes people and animals to nurture or seek social support when faced with a potentially dangerous situation |
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| posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
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| a condition that sometimes follows extremely stressful life events |
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| vivid memories, feelings, and images of traumatic experiences |
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| our body's defense invading bacteria, viruses, and other potentially illness-producing organisms and substances |
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| organisms that invade the body |
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| disease-producing organisms |
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| the study of the relationship between the immune system and the central nervous system |
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| competitive, hard-driving, ambitious, and impatient |
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| more calm and mellow than type A personality |
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| the ability to step up and do something to reduce the impact of a stressful situation |
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| the ability to cognitively restructure or think differently about negative emotions that arise in response to stress-provoking events |
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| the ability to choose among alternative courses of action |
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| the ability to acquire information about a stressful event |
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| the ability to suppress and express emotions |
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| disclosing painful feelings |
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| a single-session procedure, typically conducted in groups, designed to ward of PTSD |
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| hardy people view change as a challenge rather than a threat, are committed to their life and work, and believe they can control events |
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| optimistic people are more productive, focused, persistent, and better at handling frustration than pessimists |
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| chemicals similar to those found naturally in our brains that after consciousness by changing chemical processes in neurons |
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| increase heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure (tobacco, cocaine, amphetamines) |
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| relieve pain, induce sleep (heroin, morphine, codeine) |
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| prescribed for insomnia or anxiety (1.barbiturates-seconal 2. nonbarbiturates-quaalude 3. benzodiazepines) |
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| a rapidly growing field that's contributed to our understanding of the influences of stress and biological, social, and behavioral factors on physical disorders and their treatment |
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| health care practices and products used in place of conventional medicine |
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| products and practices that are used along with conventional medicine (acupuncture and meditation) |
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| our subjective experience of the world, our bodies, and our mental perspectives |
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| cyclical changes that occur on a roughly 24-hour basis in many biological processes |
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| the SCN (suprachiasmatic nucleus) of the hypothalamus triggers our sense of fatigue |
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| no eye movements, less dreaming (1. light sleep, may contain hypnagogic imagery, hypnic myoclonia 2. sleep spindles, K-complexes, theta waves 3 & 4. deeper sleep, delta waves |
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| paradoxical sleep (5. eye movements, vivid dreaming) |
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| more dreams; emotional, illogical, prone to plot shifts |
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| short dreams; more thought-like, repetitive, and concerned with daily tasks |
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| experience of becoming aware that one is dreaming |
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| activation-synthesis theory |
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| dreams reflect brain activation originating in the pons, followed by efforts of the forebrain to weave these inputs into a story |
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| neurocognitive perspective |
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| argues that dreams reflect ore than brain activation, and that we must consider our cognitive capacities |
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| difficulty falling and staying asleep |
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| rapid and unexpected onset of sleep |
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| blockage of airway during sleep |
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| during stages 3 and 4, sudden waking episodes characterized by screaming, perspiring, and confusion followed b a return to a deep sleep |
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| usually occurs during non-REM sleep |
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