HEED 1000 Chapter 3: Personal Stress Management ||
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What is Stress? correct answers Stress is a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension; an internal state of arousal, or the physical state of the body in response to various demands.
Stressors can be tangible (e.g., dealing with an angry friend) or intangible (...
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What is Stress? correct answers Stress is a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes
bodily or mental tension; an internal state of arousal, or the physical state of the body in response
to various demands.
Stressors can be tangible (e.g., dealing with an angry friend) or intangible (e.g., emotions that
arise when you are participating in a competition).
What are the categories of stressors? correct answers Acute time-limited stressors:
- Anxiety-provoking situations (public talking).
Stressful even sequences:
- Difficult consequences of a natural disaster or traumatic occurrence.
Chronic stressors:
- Ongoing demands caused by life changing circumstances.
Distant stressors:
- Traumatic experiences from long ago that continue to have a psychological impact (child
abuse).
Eustress vs. Distress correct answers Eustress: Positive stress that challenges us to grow, adapt,
and find creative solutions
Distress: Negative effects of stress that can deplete or destroy life energy.
Note: Other researchers suggest that stressors are neither positive nor negative; instead it is our
reaction to the stressors that create these labels.
What causes stress? correct answers General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS): A theory that states
that our bodies constantly strive to maintain homeostasis, and that stressors disturb this state and
trigger a non-specific physiological response.
Adaptive Response: The body's attempt to restore homeostasis.
GAS describes the body's response to a stressor in three distinct stages...
- Alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
, Alarm vs. Resistance vs. Exhaustion correct answers Alarm: when a stressor first occurs, the
body temporarily lowers resistance; body makes internal adjustments to cope with the stressor
and returns to normal activity
- hormones, b.p, heart rate may rise
Resistance: if the stressor continues, body mobilizes its internal resources to try to sustain
homeostasis
Exhaustion: inability to keep up normal functioning; small amount of additional stress can cause
a breakdown
What is the Cognitive-Transactional Model of Stress and Coping? correct answers Among the
many non-biological theories is this model, which looks at the RELATIONSHIP between
STRESS and HEALTH.
The author states that psychological stress is a relationship between a person and his/her
environment and the power to deal with the demands of that relationship without unreasonable or
destructive costs.
C.T.M.S.C cont'd correct answers The model suggests that an event will...
(1) trigger a primary appraisal process where an individual will perceive the event as a threat or a
challenge, then;
(2) a secondary appraisal process will take over and a comprehensive assessment of both the
person's ability to manage the threat of the challenge and their coping resources will occur, then;
(3) coping responses will be initiated and the stress outcomes of the event will depend on the
effectiveness of the cognitive appraisal and the person's coping process, then;
(4) the stress outcomes will FEED BACK into the cognitive appraisal stage if more needs to be
done to resolve the situation.
C.T.M.S.C cont'd pt. 2 correct answers Folkman and Lazarus also discovered that a form of
coping such as planful problem solving may have a healthy effect on the emotional response
whereas...
Confrontive coping and distancing may make things worse.
An event may be a stressor for one person but not for another.
Is stress hazardous to physical health? correct answers YES. Hundreds of studies have shown
that stress contributes to approximately 80% of all major illnesses, such as...
- cardiovascular disease, cancer, endocrine and metabolic disease, skin rashes, ulcers, ulcerative
colitis, emotional disorders, musculoskeletal disease, infectious ailments, etc...
- stress is negatively linked to our heart and digestive and immune systems.
Stress and the Immune System correct answers There is a special science called
Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) that focuses on the relationship between our brain's response to
stress and our immune system.
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