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| identify ways in which stress can manifest itself |
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| Physical, emotional , cognitive, behavioral |
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| effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors |
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| effect of positive events, or little amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being |
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| job loss, death of close person, marriage, going to college |
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| psychological experience produced by demand or expectations |
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| less control = more degree of stress |
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| person must choose between two desirable goals |
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| person must choose between two undesirable goals |
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| person must choose or not choose a goal that has both positive and negative aspects. |
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| 3 physiological reactions as identified by the General Adaptation Syndrome |
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Alarm – sympathetic nervous system activated
Resistance – stress continues
Exhaustion |
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What are some personality characteristics that contribute to longevity and what are some
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Positive characteristics such as relaxation contribute to longevity.
Negative such as anger hurts longevity. |
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| ambitious, time conscious, extremely hardworking, high levels hostility and anger, easily annoyed |
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| relaxed and laid back, less driven and competitive than type a, slow to anger |
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| pleasant but repressed person, tends to internalize anger anxiety, find expressing emotions difficult |
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| who expects positive outcomes |
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| people who expects negative outcomes |
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| ex: one who denies that they are alcoholic |
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| pushing conflict events out of memory ex: sexually abused as a child, cannot remember the abuse at all |
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| making up acceptable excuse for unacceptable behavior |
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| placing their unacceptable thoughts onto other |
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| ex: matt is attracted to ben but outwardly voices extreme hatred of homo. |
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| put anger on someone or something else |
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| fall back on childlike patterns |
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| trying to become like someone |
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| Compensation (substitution) |
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| makeup an areas because they are lacked in some other area (become singer, not good at writing) |
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| turning socially unacceptable urges into socially acceptable behavior |
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