5.2a Vocab

Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods.

Attempting to alleviate stress directly — by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor.

Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction.

Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.

The hopelessness and passive resignation humans and other animals learn when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.

The perception that outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate.

The perception that we control our own fate.

The ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long-term rewards.

The scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of promoting strengths and virtues that foster well-being, resilience, and positive emotions, and that help individuals and communities to thrive.

Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people’s quality of life.