FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP PSYCH

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Question 1: More info on Locus of Control

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?Individuals who have an internal locus of control tend to believe that their circumstances are a huge result of their own decisions & actions & hence appraise situations as challenges.?People w/internal L of C work better than external L of C.Question 2: stage 2: more info on resistance:

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? When that happens, we begin to deplete our physical & emotional resources, & signs of psychic & physical wear & tear become even more apparent.Question 3: stage 1: more info on alarm reaction

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?We become more sensitive & alert, our respiration & heart beat quicken, our muscles tense, & we experience other physiological changes as well.?These changes help us to mobilize our coping resources to deal w/the threat.

Question 4: What is self-imposed stress?

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People who create problems for themselves quite apart from stressful events in their environment. They are irrational, self-defeating beliefs that add to stress.

Question 5: What is the College Life stress Inventory?

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: By MJ Renner, & RS Mackin. Includes potentially stressful events such as "finals week", writing a major term paper, etc.? 2/3 of the students tested had scores between 800-1,700.? But scores ranged from a low of 182-to a high of 2,571.Question 6: More info on Self-Imposed stress:

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?Albert Ellis said that such people typically have irrational, self-defeating beliefs that add unnecessarily to the normal stressors of living.Question 7: Info on Stressors:

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?Ex: work pressure, public embarrassment, school, death, etc.

? We experience the most stress when our life is in the greatest danger

Question 8: What are hassels?

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An inconvenience, many of life's stress comes from this Question 9: Stage 3:more info on Exhaustion

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?Some people lose touch w/reality & show signs of emotional disorder or mental illness at this stage.?Others "burn out", inability to concentrate, irritability, procrastination, & a cynical belief that nothing is worthwhile.

Question 10: What is direct coping?

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Any action to change a situation, Confrontation, compromise, & withdraw occur here

Question 11: Stage 3: Exhaustion

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A person uses ineffective defense mechanisms in a desperate attempt to bring stress under control.Question 12: Define Defense coping:

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Refers to various forms of self-deception that provide a means of protecting our self-esteem & reducing stress. Tends to be emotion-oriented & to focus on our state of mind.

Question 13: What is Approach/approach conflict?

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According to Lewin, the result of simultaneous attraction to two appealing possibilities, neither of which has any negative qualities.

Question 14: What are stressors?

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The events or circumstances that trigger stress, they vary in intensity & duration( from mild-severe).

Question 15: What is lean production?

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Maintaining the same/higher levels of production w/less workers(Downsizing)

Question 16: What is Secondary Appraisal?

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People evaluate in terms of whether, they believe they have the personal skills, knowledge, experience, & social resources, to cope with the event.

Question 17: What is frustration?

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The feeling that occurs when a person is prevented from reaching a goal. 5 common sources of frustration are delays, lack of resources, losses, failure, & discrimination.

Question 18: What does confrontation include?

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?Includes expression of anger, can be effective, especially if we have been treated unfairly & if we express our anger w/restraint instead of exploding in rage.

Question 19: What is Avoidance/avoidance conflict?

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According to Lewin, the result of facing a choice between two undesirable possibilities, neither of which has any positive qualities. Pick the "lesser of the two evils"

Question 20: What is General Adaptation Syndrome(GAS)?

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: A Canadian physiologist Hans Selye, it's the three stages the body passes through as it adapts to stress. Alarm reaction, resistance, & exhaustion.Question 21: Stage 1: more info on Alarm Reaction

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? Activity of the sympathetic nervous system is increased resulting in the release of hormones(adrenaline, & Norepinephrine) from adrenal glands into the blood.

Question 22: info on Hardiness

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?Stress-hardy people are open to change. Ex: someone who loses their job, doesn't see the situation as catastrophic, but as an opportunity to begin a new career.

Question 23: even more info on hardiness

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?Kobasa's study suggested that to a degree, people's response to stress depends on whether they believe they have some control over events or whether they feel helplessness.Question 24: Info on direct coping:

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?Tends to be problem-oriented & to focus on the immediate issue.? When our needs/desires are frustrated, ? When I am threatened, we may try to eliminate the source of threat, either by attacking it or by escaping from it.

Question 25: What is Psychoneuroimmunology(PNI)?

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a field that studies the interaction between stress on the one hand, & immune, endocrine, & nervous system activity on the other hand.