Matching Pairs PSYC 365 Ch 2 Vocab Part 2Online version Part 2 by Spencer Leon 1 Beliefs as person variables 2 Situation variables 3 Harm/loss appraisal 4 Secondary appraisal 5 Imminence 6 Person variables 7 Novelty 8 Reappraisal 9 Event uncertainty 10 Stressful appraisal 11 Cognitive appraisal 12 Temporal uncertainty 13 Threat appraisal 14 Irrelevant appraisal 15 Duration 16 Predictability 17 Social dominance 18 Type A behaviour pattern 19 Vulnerability 20 Commitments as person variables 21 Challenge appraisal 22 Cognitive transactional models 23 Primary appraisal 24 Benign-positive appraisal A type of stressful appraisal at the time of primary appraisal that involves significant physical or psychological loss Variables, particularly commitments and beliefs, that interact with situation variables to affect the appraisal of a situation's stressfulness Appraisal in which, though an event is perceived to be stressful, the focus is one of positive excitement and the potential for growth Physically, the adequacy of an individual's resources; psychologically, a threat to something that an individual values Impatience, time urgency, aggressiveness, hostility, competitiveness - originally thought to predict coronary heart disease A characteristic of the environment that allows an individual to prepare for an event and therefore reduce the stress involved 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 Variables that interact with person variables to influence the appraisal of a situation An appraisal at the time of the primary appraisal that involves the anticipation of harm or loss An individual's evaluation of their ability to cope with a situation following primary appraisal Values that influence appraisal by determining the importance of a particular encounter and that affect the choices made to achieve a desired outcome 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 cognitive process by which an event is appraised to involve outcomes that are positive and may enhance well-being Assessment of whether or not an event is stressful Pre-existing notions, both personal and cultural, that influence appraisal, and thus stress, by determining the meaning given to the environment A cognitive process by which an event is appraised to involve harm/loss, threat, or challenge at the time of primary appraisal Interval during which an event is being anticipated; the more imminent an event, the more intense the appraisal The initial evaluation of a situation A continuous experience in which existing appraisals of situations are changes or modified on the basis of new information 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" The extent to which an individual's previous experience with a situation influences the appraisal process Lack of knowledge about when an event will occur, which can result in stress