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| health psychology | branch of psychology that investigates the psychological factors related to wellness & illlness, including prevention, diagnosis, & treatment of medical problems |
| psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) | the study of the relationships among psychological factors, the immune system, & the brain |
| stress | the anxious or threatening feeling resulting from our appraisal of a situation & our perception of demands placed on us |
| stressor | a stress-producing event or situation |
| stress reaction | the body's response to a stressor |
| distress | negative stress which stems from acute anxiety or pressure |
| eustress | positive stress that results from the strivings & challenges that are the spice of life |
| cognitive model of stress | Lazarus' model in which people analyze & then evaluate a situation before it's labeled as stressful |
| conflict situation | when a person must choose between 2 or more options that tend to result from opposing motives |
| approach-approach conflict | conflict that involves 2 attractive alternatives |
| avoidance-avoidance conflict | conflict that involves 2 unattractive alternatives |
| approach-avoidance conflict | conflict in which an individual wants to do something but has fears or doubts or is repulsed by it at the same time |
| double approach-avoidance conflict | conflict in which there are 2 or more alternatives, each of which has attractive & unattractive aspects; most common conflict |
| primary appraisal | immediate evaluation of a situation which one may appraise as either irrelevant, positive, or negative |
| secondary appraisal | deciding how to deal with a potentially stressful situation; deciding on a coping strategy |
| external stressors | outside forces we can't control |
| internal stressors | self-generated stresses that we can control |
| environmental stressors | stressors in the environment that are irritants, like noise, crowding, etc. |
| hassles | the relatively minor, day-to-day stressors |
| uplifts | small, positive events protect against stress & reduce it |
