Chapter 11 Terminology

2. a branch of psychology that focuses on the relationships between psychological functioning, neural functioning, and health
6. a technique that improves mental clarity, reduces anxiety, and boosts happiness by having people attend to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner
9. If a person focuses their coping efforts on controlling their emotional reactions to stressors, they are using a(n) _______ focused coping technique
10. the stage in the GAS model in which a sympathetic nervous system response is activated
12. large-scale events that affect multiple people and typically produce significant amounts of stress
13. stimuli and events that challenge and threaten us beyond our normal functioning
18. a person’s assessment of his/her ability to cope with a stressor
19. a system that activates during times of stress, causing a series of changes in the body that prepare the body to either fight or flee from the stressor
20. a person’s assessment of a stressor and interpretation of the magnitude of a threat
21. a young man whose wheelchair got caught on the front of a semitruck as it took off down the highway inducing extreme stress 😊

1. a popular measure of stress that asks individuals to report their subjective/perceived levels of stress in their lives in the last month
3. A person who believes that forces beyond his/her personal control determine events and outcomes in life is said to have an ________ locus of control
4. A person who deals with a stressor by attempting to control or eliminate the stressor is using a(n) _________ focused coping technique
5. – a sense of hopelessness and passive resignation that occurs when a person is unable to avoid or escape aversive events and stressors
7. minor, everyday stressors such as large to-do lists, annoying people, money worries, and homework 😊
8. the stage in the GAS model in which the body is fully engaged trying to fight off the stressor
11. a hormone released from the adrenal gland during times of stress
13. the physical and emotional responses a person has to challenging and threatening events
14. the stage of the GAS model in which the body’s resources become depleted and the risk of illness and disease increase
15. proposed that the body responds to stress by releasing hormones and neurotransmitters that activate a sympathetic nervous system response (also known as the fight or flight response)
16. the use of cognitive, behavioral and emotional resources to deal with stress and stressors
17. proposed a model suggesting that the body responds to all stressors in a general 3-stage process