Health Psych Mod 6 Match

Stress and Coping

Set 1: Stress Basics

Set 1 of 3
Fight-or-flight
Person-environment fit
Tend-and-Befriend model
Stressor
Coping
General Adaptation Syndrome
Stress
A stress response, more common in females, involving seeking social contact during stress
A negative emotional experience accompanied by predictable biochemical, physiological, cognitive, and behavioural changes
The thoughts and behaviours used to manage the internal and external demands of stressful situations
A primal survival mechanism activating the sympathetic nervous system to confront or flee a threat
The perception of stress determined by an individual's appraisal of their resources to manage a stressor
An event, situation, experience, or trigger that causes stress
Selye's model proposing that different stressors produce the same physiological response in three phases