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Alarm - ANSWER ✔✔the release of adrenalin, corticosteroids, and
endorphins
Alarm - ANSWER ✔✔is the initial, brief, and adaptive response (fight
or flight) to the stressor. It begins with the eyes or ears sending
information such as a car running a light or the sound of a fire alarm to
the brain's amygdala)
Resistance/adaptation - ANSWER ✔✔During this time sustained and
optimal resistance to the stressor occurs. Usually, stressors are
successfully overcome.
,Exhaustion stage - ANSWER ✔✔if we do not go to exhaustion, we
have usually gone into resolution. This stage occurs when attempts to
resist the stressor prove futile. At this point, resources are depleted, and
the stress may become chronic)
Corticosteroids - ANSWER ✔✔help with muscle endurance and
stamina, also reduces the immune system when it's chronically elevated.
Also helps with inflammation.
Endorphins - ANSWER ✔✔help with sensitivity to pain, desensitizes
you to the injury you may face so you can survive
Denial - ANSWER ✔✔Avoidance of disagreeable realities (involves
escaping unpleasant, anxiety- causing thoughts, feelings, wishes, or
needs by ignoring their existence.)
Displacement - ANSWER ✔✔Shift emotion from one person to
another ( is the transference of emotions associated with a particular
person, object, or situation to another nonthreatening person, object, or
situation.)
Intellectualization - ANSWER ✔✔Reasoning to avoid feeling a
process in which events are analyzed based on remote, cold facts and
,without passion, rather than incorporating feeling and emotion into the
processing
Rationalization - ANSWER ✔✔Offering socially acceptable
explanations to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors (consists of
justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas, actions, or feelings by
developing acceptable explanations that satisfy the teller and the
listener.)
Reaction formation - ANSWER ✔✔Conscious attitudes that are
opposite of true feelings (is when unacceptable feelings or behaviors are
controlled and kept out of awareness by developing the opposite
behavior or emotion.)
Repression - ANSWER ✔✔INVOLUNTARY exclusion of painful
thought (is an unconscious exclusion of unpleasant or unwanted
experiences, emotions, or ideas from conscious awareness)
Suppression - ANSWER ✔✔VOLUNTARY exclusion of painful
thoughts (is the conscious denial of a disturbing situation or feeling. For
example, Jessica has been studying for the state board examination for
a week solid. She says, "I won't worry about paying my rent until after
my exam tomorrow.")
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, Undoing - ANSWER ✔✔communication negates a previous one (is
most commonly seen in children. It is when a person makes up for an
act or communication.)
Separation Anxiety Disorder - ANSWER ✔✔Developmentally
inappropriate concern from being away from significant other
Fear something horrible will happen
Interferes with functioning
Physical symptoms
Sx's present for at least 1 month
Usually diagnosed before age 18
Panic Disorder - ANSWER ✔✔Episodes of panic attack
Palpitations, SOB, feelings of suffocation, chest pain, nausea,
depersonalization, fear of dying, chills or hot flashes
Concern or worry about future attacks
May develop into agoraphobia
Agoraphobia - ANSWER ✔✔Anxiety about being in places or
situations which escape might be difficult or embarrassing or in which
help may not be available
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Alarm - ANSWER ✔✔the release of adrenalin, corticosteroids, and
endorphins
Alarm - ANSWER ✔✔is the initial, brief, and adaptive response (fight
or flight) to the stressor. It begins with the eyes or ears sending
information such as a car running a light or the sound of a fire alarm to
the brain's amygdala)
Resistance/adaptation - ANSWER ✔✔During this time sustained and
optimal resistance to the stressor occurs. Usually, stressors are
successfully overcome.
,Exhaustion stage - ANSWER ✔✔if we do not go to exhaustion, we
have usually gone into resolution. This stage occurs when attempts to
resist the stressor prove futile. At this point, resources are depleted, and
the stress may become chronic)
Corticosteroids - ANSWER ✔✔help with muscle endurance and
stamina, also reduces the immune system when it's chronically elevated.
Also helps with inflammation.
Endorphins - ANSWER ✔✔help with sensitivity to pain, desensitizes
you to the injury you may face so you can survive
Denial - ANSWER ✔✔Avoidance of disagreeable realities (involves
escaping unpleasant, anxiety- causing thoughts, feelings, wishes, or
needs by ignoring their existence.)
Displacement - ANSWER ✔✔Shift emotion from one person to
another ( is the transference of emotions associated with a particular
person, object, or situation to another nonthreatening person, object, or
situation.)
Intellectualization - ANSWER ✔✔Reasoning to avoid feeling a
process in which events are analyzed based on remote, cold facts and
,without passion, rather than incorporating feeling and emotion into the
processing
Rationalization - ANSWER ✔✔Offering socially acceptable
explanations to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors (consists of
justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas, actions, or feelings by
developing acceptable explanations that satisfy the teller and the
listener.)
Reaction formation - ANSWER ✔✔Conscious attitudes that are
opposite of true feelings (is when unacceptable feelings or behaviors are
controlled and kept out of awareness by developing the opposite
behavior or emotion.)
Repression - ANSWER ✔✔INVOLUNTARY exclusion of painful
thought (is an unconscious exclusion of unpleasant or unwanted
experiences, emotions, or ideas from conscious awareness)
Suppression - ANSWER ✔✔VOLUNTARY exclusion of painful
thoughts (is the conscious denial of a disturbing situation or feeling. For
example, Jessica has been studying for the state board examination for
a week solid. She says, "I won't worry about paying my rent until after
my exam tomorrow.")
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, Undoing - ANSWER ✔✔communication negates a previous one (is
most commonly seen in children. It is when a person makes up for an
act or communication.)
Separation Anxiety Disorder - ANSWER ✔✔Developmentally
inappropriate concern from being away from significant other
Fear something horrible will happen
Interferes with functioning
Physical symptoms
Sx's present for at least 1 month
Usually diagnosed before age 18
Panic Disorder - ANSWER ✔✔Episodes of panic attack
Palpitations, SOB, feelings of suffocation, chest pain, nausea,
depersonalization, fear of dying, chills or hot flashes
Concern or worry about future attacks
May develop into agoraphobia
Agoraphobia - ANSWER ✔✔Anxiety about being in places or
situations which escape might be difficult or embarrassing or in which
help may not be available
