Matching Pairs PSYC 365 Ch 2 Vocab Part 2Online version Part 2 by Spencer Leon 1 Commitments as person variables 2 Type A behaviour pattern 3 Social dominance 4 Temporal uncertainty 5 Predictability 6 Benign-positive appraisal 7 Vulnerability 8 Stressful appraisal 9 Cognitive transactional models 10 Cognitive appraisal 11 Primary appraisal 12 Beliefs as person variables 13 Situation variables 14 Imminence 15 Secondary appraisal 16 Irrelevant appraisal 17 Duration 18 Harm/loss appraisal 19 Threat appraisal 20 Reappraisal 21 Person variables 22 Novelty 23 Event uncertainty 24 Challenge appraisal 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 Variables, particularly commitments and beliefs, that interact with situation variables to affect the appraisal of a situation's stressfulness The extent to which an individual's previous experience with a situation influences the appraisal process The initial evaluation of a situation Pre-existing notions, both personal and cultural, that influence appraisal, and thus stress, by determining the meaning given to the environment Impatience, time urgency, aggressiveness, hostility, competitiveness - originally thought to predict coronary heart disease An appraisal at the time of the primary appraisal that involves the anticipation of harm or loss 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 Interval during which an event is being anticipated; the more imminent an event, the more intense the appraisal Situational factor involved in stress appraisal Models that emphasize the relationship between a person and his pr her environment and the appraisal that the individual makes of the situation A characteristic of the environment that allows an individual to prepare for an event and therefore reduce the stress involved A type of stressful appraisal at the time of primary appraisal that involves significant physical or psychological loss A cognitive process by which an event is appraised to involve harm/loss, threat, or challenge at the time of primary appraisal An individual's evaluation of their ability to cope with a situation following primary appraisal The inability to predict the probability of an event, which, as a result, increases the stress response A cognitive process by which an event is appraised as having no implications for an individual's well being 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" Lack of knowledge about when an event will occur, which can result in stress Appraisal in which, though an event is perceived to be stressful, the focus is one of positive excitement and the potential for growth A continuous experience in which existing appraisals of situations are changes or modified on the basis of new information