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What is the term used to describe when individuals use strategies like changes in behavior to reduce stress?
Coping is defined as what people do to try to minimize stress and is commonly seen in health psychology as problem-focused, that is, directed at reducing the threats and losses of the illness, or emotion-focused, namely directed at reducing the negative emotional consequences.
What term is used when people try to manage their stress by seeking to change the way they feel about or perceive problems?
Adaptive coping includes cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage stressful conditions or associated emotional distress.
Which of the following refers to unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by concealing the source from themselves and others?
Define defense mechanisms. In Freudian theory, unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by concealing the source of the anxiety from themselves and others.
What is a stress response quizlet?
A factor that produces stress. What is a stress response? The physiological and behavioral changes that take place when a person is presented with a stressor.