3A stress

Question 1

what is stress?

Answer 1

psychological (mental) and physiological (bodily) experience where something of significance demands an individuals efforts to cope or attention.

Question 2

what is a stressor?

Answer 2

stimulus (internal or external) that prompts a stress response

Question 3

what are internal stressors?

Answer 3

stressors that come from within a persons body that prompts the stress response. can be cognitive or biological e.g illness

Question 4

what are external stressors?

Answer 4

stimulus from outside a persons body and in our environment that prompts the stress response

Question 5

what is eustress?

Answer 5

positive response to stress

Question 6

what is distress?

Answer 6

negative response to stress

Question 7

what is acute stress?

Answer 7

a form of stress that is brief in duration characterised by intense psychological and physiological symptoms

Question 8

what is chronic stress?

Answer 8

form of stress that lasts several months or longer. cortisol is released to help the body maintain heightened arousal

Question 9

what is FFF?

Answer 9

Fight flight freeze response is an involuntary and automatic response to stress

Question 10

what is fight?

Answer 10

confronting the stressor, deals with danger through activation of the sympathetic nervous system

Question 11

what is flight?

Answer 11

fleeing from the stressor, prompts release of adrenaline, activation of the sympathetic nervous system.

Question 12

what is freeze?

Answer 12

immobility and shock response, body can’t respond instantly. activation of parasympathetic nervous system as well as sympathetic. bodily functions like blood pressure drop below normal