Unit 2 / Chpt. 11 - Stress, Health, & Coping

Question 1

What is stress?

Answer 1

The demand that is made on an organism to adapt, cope, or adjust.

Question 2

What is a stressor?

Answer 2

An event that gives rise to feelings of stress.

Question 3

Eustress

Answer 3

Stress that is healthful.

Question 4

What are the sources of stress?

Answer 4

• Household Hassles
• Health Hassles
• Time-Pressure Hassles
• Inner Concern Hassles
• Environmental Hassles
• Financial Responsibility Hassles
• Work Hassles
• Security Hassles

Question 5

What are household hassles?

Answer 5

Preparing meals, shopping, and home maintenance.

Question 6

What are health hassles?

Answer 6

Physical illness, concern about medical treatment, and side effects of medication.

Question 7

What are time-pressure hassles?

Answer 7

Having too many things to do, too many responsibilities, and not enough time.

Question 8

What are inner concern hassles?

Answer 8

Being socially isolated, lonely.

Question 9

What are environmental hassles?

Answer 9

Crime, neighborhood deterioration, and traffic noise.

Question 10

What are financial responsibility hassles?

Answer 10

Concern about owing money such as mortgage payments and loan installments.

Question 11

What are work hassles?

Answer 11

Job dissatisfaction, not liking one’s duties at work, and problems with coworkers.

Question 12

What are security hassles?

Answer 12

Concerns about job security, terrorism, taxes, property investments, stock market swings, and retirement.

Question 13

What is castastrophize?

Answer 13

To interpret negative events as being disastrous; to “blow things out of proportion.”

Question 14

Type A Behavior?

Answer 14

The Type A behavior pattern is characterized by a sense of time urgency, competitiveness, and hostility.

Question 15

What is fight or flight?

Answer 15

A possibly innate adaptive response to the perception of danger.

Question 16

What do headaches have to do with stress?

Answer 16

Headaches are among the most common stress-related physical ailments. Nearly 20% of people in the United States suffer severe headaches.

Question 17

What is health psychology?

Answer 17

The field of psychology that studies the relationships between psychological factors (e.g., attitudes, beliefs, situational influences, and behavior patterns) and the prevention and treatment of physical illness.

Question 18

What is GAS?

Answer 18

Selye’s term for a hypothesized three-stage response to stress.

Question 19

What are the three stages involved in GAS?

Answer 19

1. Alarm Reaction Stage
2. Resistance Stage
3. Exhaustion Stage

Question 20

What is the alarm reaction stage?

Answer 20

• Triggered by perception of a stressor.
• Involves bodily changes that are initiated by the brain.
• Regulated by the sympathetic division of the ANS and endocrine system.

Question 21

What is the resistance stage?

Answer 21

• All our resources are active.
• If you stay here for a long period of time, it can put our systems over the edge.
• The second stage of the GAS, characterized by prolonged sympathetic activity in an effort to restore lost energy and repair damage; also called the adaptation stage.

Question 22

What is the exhaustion stage?

Answer 22

• The third stage of the GAS, characterized by weakened resistance and possible deterioration.
• Depleted all our resources.
• ANS crashes, tired, low mood, physically and emotionally “spent”