Abnormal psych q1

Gratitude

An appreciative emotion people often experience when they benefit from other’s actions or recognize their own good fortune.

Mindfulness Meditation

a reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a nonjudgmental and accepting manner.

Aerobic Exercise

sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; also helps alleviate anxiety.

Resilience

The personal strength that helps people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma.

Broaden and Build Theory

proposes that positive emotions broaden our awareness, which over time helps us build novel and meaningful skills and resilience that improve well-being.

Relative Deprivation

The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves.

Adaption-Level Phenomenon

our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.

Feel-good Do-good Phenomenon

people’s tendency to be helpful when in a good mood.

Positive Psychology

the scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of promoting strengths and virtues that foster well-being, resilience, and positive emotions, and help individuals and communities thrive.

Subjective Well-Being

self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life.

Self Control

the ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long-term goals.

Health Psychology

a subfield of psychology that explores the impact of psychological., behavioral, and cultural factors on health and wellness.

Psychoneuroimmunology

the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect our immune system and resulting health.

Stress

the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.

Approach and Avoidance Motives

the drive to move toward or away from a stimulus.

General Adaptation Syndrome

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases — alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Tend-and-Befriend Response

Under stress, people may nurture themselves and others and bond with and seek support from others.

Coronary Heart Disease

The dogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries.

Type A

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

Type B

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people.

Catharsis

in psychology, the idea that “real easing: aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges.

Coping

alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.

Learned Helplessness

the hopelessness and passive resignation humans and other animals learn when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.

Emotion-Focused Coping

Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction.

Problem-Focused Coping

attempting to alleviate stress directly — by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.

Personal Control

our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless

External Locus of Control

the perception that outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate.

Internal Locus of Control

The perception that we control our own fate.