CSCC Psych Exam 3 Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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CSCC Psych Exam 3 Study Guide with
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stress - Answer️️ -an unpleasant physical or psychological reaction to
circumstances perceived as challenging.
fight or flight response - Answer️️ -an automatic emotional and physical
reaction to a perceived threat that prepares one...
CSCC Psych Exam 3 Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
stress - Answer✔️✔️-an unpleasant physical or psychological reaction to
circumstances perceived as challenging.
fight or flight response - Answer✔️✔️-an automatic emotional and physical
reaction to a perceived threat that prepares one to either attack it or run
away from it.
stressor - Answer✔️✔️-Anything that causes stress
primary appraisal - Answer✔️✔️-the way you determine how stressful an
event is to you.
secondary appraisal - Answer✔️✔️-the way you determine how capable you
are of coping with the event.
health psychology - Answer✔️✔️-the psychological specialization that
focuses on the relationship between mind and body.
General Adaptation Syndrome - Answer✔️✔️-a widely accepted
understanding of the way the body responds to ongoing stress, consisting
of the sequence of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
immune system - Answer✔️✔️-the bodily innate method of defending
against bacteria, viruses, infections, injuries, and anything else that can
cause illness or death.
psychphysiological illness - Answer✔️✔️-any illness stress can cause,
worsen, or maintain.
Type A personality - Answer✔️✔️-personality type that describes people
who are competitive, driven, hostile, and ambitious
Type B Personality - Answer✔️✔️-a personality in which the person is
noncompetitive, easygoing, relaxed, and rarely angry.
Type C personality - Answer✔️✔️-a personality featuring a low level of
emotional expression, a high level of agreeableness with other people, and
a tendency to feel helpless
Type D personality - Answer✔️✔️-a personality featuring high levels of
negative emotions, like depression, and anxiety, and a reluctance to share
those emotions with others.
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Answer✔️✔️-a psychological disorder
lasting at least a month characterized by feeling continuously on edge,
avoiding reminders of the traumatic event, having difficulty sleeping and
concentrating, and frequently recalling or reliving the event.
coping - Answer✔️✔️-efforts to reduce or manage an experience of stress.
problem-focused coping - Answer✔️✔️-a style of coping with stress that
emphasizes changing the stressor itself.
emotion-focused - Answer✔️✔️-a style of coping with stress that emphasizes
changing your emotional reaction to the stressor.
hardiness - Answer✔️✔️-behaviors the reflect resilience under stressful
circumstances.
optimism - Answer✔️✔️-an attitude toward the future characterized by hope
or expectation of a positive outcome.
Personality - Answer✔️✔️-a persons distinctive and stable way of thinking,
feeling, and behaving
Psychodynamic Theory of Personality - Answer✔️✔️-An explanation of
personality, based on the ideas of Sigmund Freud, that emphasizes
unconscious forces and early childhood experiences.
unconscious - Answer✔️✔️-mental activity of which the person in unaware
Freudian slips - Answer✔️✔️-Verbal or behavioral mistakes reveal
unconscious wishes and thoughts
Id - Answer✔️✔️-According to Freud, the animalistic part of the mind that
generates our most basic, biologically based impulses, such as sex and
aggression
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