a special stimulus-response transaction in which one feels threatened. One accepted definition of stress is a. any potentially upsetting event that occurs in one's environment.
Acute stressors a. are threatening events that have a relatively short duration and clear endpoint. b. are unpleasant environmental conditions to which one must adjust. c. are conditions that have a relatively long duration and no apparent time limit.
Drew sees everything as a competition and works hard to outdo all of the other employees. A behavior pattern marked by commitment, challenge, and control that appears to be related to stress resistance is called a. hardiness. b. optimism.
Experts generally agree that major and minor stressors are independent of each other. Routine hassles may have significant negative effects on mental and physical health Lazarus's findings on hassles suggest that the effects of stress are
Selye's model of the body's stress response, consisting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
Unrealistically pessimistic appraisals of stress that exaggerate the magnitude of one's problems.
Passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events.
By definition, psychology is the scientific study of what along with the physiological processes that underlie it?
According to Jung, the collective unconscious is a storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from people's ancestral past, which is