Relacionar Columnas PSYC 365 Ch 2 Vocab Part 2Versión en línea Part 2 por Spencer Leon 1 Commitments as person variables 2 Situation variables 3 Primary appraisal 4 Duration 5 Stressful appraisal 6 Temporal uncertainty 7 Imminence 8 Person variables 9 Social dominance 10 Cognitive appraisal 11 Cognitive transactional models 12 Beliefs as person variables 13 Predictability 14 Challenge appraisal 15 Secondary appraisal 16 Novelty 17 Reappraisal 18 Type A behaviour pattern 19 Harm/loss appraisal 20 Benign-positive appraisal 21 Irrelevant appraisal 22 Vulnerability 23 Threat appraisal 24 Event uncertainty The initial evaluation of a situation The inability to predict the probability of an event, which, as a result, increases the stress response Assessment of whether or not an event is stressful A cognitive process by which an event is appraised to involve outcomes that are positive and may enhance well-being Physically, the adequacy of an individual's resources; psychologically, a threat to something that an individual values Appraisal in which, though an event is perceived to be stressful, the focus is one of positive excitement and the potential for growth An appraisal at the time of the primary appraisal that involves the anticipation of harm or loss Values that influence appraisal by determining the importance of a particular encounter and that affect the choices made to achieve a desired outcome Variables that interact with person variables to influence the appraisal of a situation A risk factor for coronary disease that is independent of hostility; described as "a set of controlling behaviours, including the tendency to cut off and talk over the interviewer" A characteristic of the environment that allows an individual to prepare for an event and therefore reduce the stress involved Interval during which an event is being anticipated; the more imminent an event, the more intense the appraisal The extent to which an individual's previous experience with a situation influences the appraisal process Pre-existing notions, both personal and cultural, that influence appraisal, and thus stress, by determining the meaning given to the environment Lack of knowledge about when an event will occur, which can result in stress A cognitive process by which an event is appraised as having no implications for an individual's well being A cognitive process by which an event is appraised to involve harm/loss, threat, or challenge at the time of primary appraisal A type of stressful appraisal at the time of primary appraisal that involves significant physical or psychological loss An individual's evaluation of their ability to cope with a situation following primary appraisal A continuous experience in which existing appraisals of situations are changes or modified on the basis of new information Models that emphasize the relationship between a person and his pr her environment and the appraisal that the individual makes of the situation Variables, particularly commitments and beliefs, that interact with situation variables to affect the appraisal of a situation's stressfulness Situational factor involved in stress appraisal Impatience, time urgency, aggressiveness, hostility, competitiveness - originally thought to predict coronary heart disease