Psychology Vocab

terms

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psychoneuroimmunology

the study of the effects of psycholological factors such as stress emotions thought and behanvior on the immune system

stress

the term used to descirbe the phsical, emtional cognitive and behavioral responses to event that are appraised as threatening or challegngin

distress

the effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors

eustress

the effect of positive events or optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well being

hassles

the daily annoyances of everyday life

displaced aggression

taking out ones frustrations on some less threatening or more available target

Type A personality

person who is ambitious time conscious extremely hardworking and tends to have high levels of hostiliy and anger as well as being easily ano

Type B personailty

person who is relaxed and laid back less driven and more competitive that type A slow to anger

type C personality

pleasant but repressed person who tends to internalize his or her anger and anxiety and who finds expressing emtions difficult

hardy personality

a person who seems to thrice on stress but lacks the anger and hostility of the type A personality

Burnout

negative changes in thought emotions and behavior as a result of prolonged stressout or frustration

acculturative stress

stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture

marginalized

neither maintaining contact with thier original culture nor joining the majority culture

social psychology

the scientific study of how a persons thoughts feeling and behavior are influenced by the real imagined or implied presence of others

cognitive dissonance

sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a person behavior does not correspond to that person attitudes

stereotype

a set of characteristivs that people believe is shared by all members of a particular social category

prejudice

negative attitude held by a person about the members of a particular social group

discrimination

treating people differenyly because of prejudice toward the social group to which they belong

self fulfilling prophecy

the tendency of ones expectations to affect ones behavior in such a way as to make the expectations likely to occur

prozimity

physical or geographical nearness

romantic love

type of love consisting of intimacy and passion

companionate love

type of love consisting of intimacy and commitment

altruism

prosocial behavior tha tis done with no expectation of reward and may invole the risk of harm to oneself

diffusion of responsiblity

occurring when a person fails to take responsiblity for actions or for inaction because of the presence of other ppl to share responsiblity