Acute Stress Paradigm

Exposing people to short-term stressors and seeing how they react, observing those reactions.

Aftereffects of Stress

Often persist long after the stressful event itself is no longer present.

Allostatic Load

The psychological costs of chronic exposure to the psychological changes that result from repeated or chronic stress.

Chronic Stain

Not being able to adapt to stressors. Living with that chronic stress.

Daily Hassles

Minor stressful events.

Demand-Control-Support Model

When high demands and low control are combined with little social support at work.

Fight-or-Flight Response

Taking on the stressor or running/withdrawing from it.

General Adaptation Syndrome

When a person confronts a stressor, it mobilizes itself for action. Alarm. Resistance. Exhaustion.

Person-Environment Fit

It results from the process of appraising events, of assessing potential resources, and of responding to the events.

Primary Appraisal

Occurs as a person is trying to understand what the event is and what it will mean

Reactivity

The degree of change that occurs in autonomic, neuroendocrine, and/or immune responses as a result of stress.

Role Conflict

Occurs when a person receives conflicting information about work tasks or standards from different individuals.

Secondary Appraisal

Whether personal resources are sufficient to meet the demands of the environment.

Stress

A negative emotion experience accompanied by predictable biochemical, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral changes.

Stressful Life Events

When something stressful comes into your life and affects your life.

Stressors

Stressful events.

Tend-and-Befriend

In addition to fight-or-flight, people and animals respond to stress with social affiliation and nurturant behavior toward offspring.