Acute Stress Paradigm
Exposing people to short-term stressors and seeing how they react, observing those reactions.
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |