Chapter 4: Stress and the College Student

Having too many courses or courses too difficult to complete well during one semester.

A passionate, all-enveloping type of love recognized by the heart racing and other signs of excitement. Heart racing, fluttering in stomach, shortness of breath when they meet.

A playful, flirtatious type of love involving no long commitment. Basically for amusement, usually played with several partners at once.

A calm, companionate type of love conceiving of a long commitment. Quietly affectionate, goals of marriage and children.

More of an attachment. A combination of passionate love (eros) and flirtatious playing love characterized by jealousy and irrational joy that usually does not result in a long commitment. Need for affection is insatiable, highs of irrational joy, lows of anxiety and depression, bouts of extreme jealousy.

Diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and genital warts that are transmitted through sexual activity.

A condition transmitted through sexual contact and the sharing of intravenous needles that leads to the mixing of blood or semen, in which the immune system becomes progressively ineffective. Azidothymidine (AZT) used in combination with other drugs such as protease inhibitors, called combination therapy or a "drug cocktail", is most effective against AIDS

The virus that causes AIDS.

Forcible sexual intercourse between people who know each other.

To be afraid of people and being worried of what strangers and powerful others think of oneself.

Fear of losing one's property, such as a lover, friend, status, or power.

An eating disorder in which a person takes in so few calories as to potentially starve him- or herself.

An eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by pumping of food, such as by inducing vomiting or ingesting a laxative. Only medication approved by the FDA is fluoxetine (Prozac).

1. Achieving emotional independence from family. 2. Choosing and preparing for a career. 3. Preparing for emotional commitment and family life. 4. Developing an ethical system.

It is what a person does that can give them acquired immune deficiency syndrom (AIDS)

Utilize relaxation techniques that would address the stressors she experiences.

True.