Encyclopedia Development
Your personal tool for organizing concepts and mechanisms from development and psychology. We skip academic formulas in favor of clear definitions, cognitive biases, and self-reflection questions that help you name your states precisely.
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Emotional buffer
An emotional buffer is a resource or condition that mitigates the impact of stress and difficult emotions on functioning.
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Emotional tension
Emotional tension is a state of increased mental and physiological arousal associated with difficult emotions or stress.
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Eustress
Eustress is stress perceived as a mobilizing challenge that can support action, learning and development.
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Stress
Stress is a mental and physiological reaction to demands, threats or overloads that the body assesses as important.
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Stress factor
A stress factor is an event, condition, or stimulus that triggers a stress response or increases the body's workload.
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Stress reaction
The stress response is the body's physiological and psychological response to demand, threat or overload.
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Sympathetic system
The sympathetic nervous system is a part of the autonomic nervous system that mobilizes the body to act, exercise and…
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