Psy Fsu Exam 4 Updated Actual Questions And Correct Answers

PSY FSU EXAM 4 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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1. Stress
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Uncomfortable emotional experience/state accompanied by biochemical, physiological and/or
behavioral changes in response to a stressor

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2. Eustress
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Stress of positive events

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3. Distress (duress)
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Stress of negative events

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4. Stressor
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Something in the environment that is perceived as threatening or demanding and therefore produces
stress

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5. Daily Hassles
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Day-to-day irritations and annoyances

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6. Major life stressors
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Changes or disruptions that strain central areas of people's lives; greatest stress from unexpected,
uncontrollable stressors

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7. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA)
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Involves a complex chain of responses in the body in response to stressors

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8. General Adaptation syndrome
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Pattern of responses to stress that consists of three stages

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9. Alarm Stage
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Prepares the body to fight or flee

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10. Fight-or-flight response
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The physiological preparedness of animals to deal with danger by either fighting or fleeing

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11. Resistance
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The defenses prepare for a longer, sustained attack against the stressor

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12. Exhaustion
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A variety of physiological and immune system fail

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13. Short-term stress affects
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Still, negatively effects working memory

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14. Long-term stress affects
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Negative health consequences; decrease immune system; increase risk heart disease; damage neurons
in hippocampus->interferes with long-term memory

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15. Prenatal stress and early childhood stress
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Increases risk for developing psychological disorders later in life

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16. High in trait anxiety
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Especially vulnerable to negative health effects of stress

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17. Type A personality
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Characterized by competitiveness, achievement orientation, hostility, impatience, restlessness; strong
a predictor of heart disease

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18. Tend-and-befriend response
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Females' tendency to protect and care for their offspring and form social alliances rather than fight or
flee response to threat

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19. Coping response
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Any attempt to avoid, escape from, or minimize a stressor

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20. Lazarus' two part cognitive appraisal process
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Primary and Secondary appraisals

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21. Primary Appraisals
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Deciding whether a stimulus is stressful, benign, or irrelevant

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22. Secondary Appraisals
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(if stressful) evaluation of response options and choice of coping behaviors

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23. Emotion-focused coping
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Attempts to prevent having an emotional response to a stressor; passive strategies to "numb" the pain
and avoid stressor; short-term effects

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24. Problem-focused coping
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Taking direct steps to confront, minimize or solve problem/stressor; effective in long-run

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25. Anticipatory coping
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Coping that occurs before the onset future stressor

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26. Buffering hypothesis
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Other people can provide direct emotional (and practical) support in helping individuals cope with
stressful events