W3 Chapter 5.1 What is Stress?

Question 1

What factor supports resilience

Answer 1

Having a positive affect

Question 2

What four factors increase resilience

Answer 2

1. being male
2. being older
3. being well educated
4. having more economic resources

Question 3

What is resilience

Answer 3

The healthy psychological and physical functioning of a person after a potentially traumatic event

Question 4

What are the two detriments of interview based rating scales

Answer 4

1. costly
2. time consuming

Question 5

What are the benefits of interview based rating scales

Answer 5

more reliable than checklist base approaches

Question 6

What’s the difference between a crisis and stress

Answer 6

A crisis overwhelms a person’s ability to cope.

Stress does not necessarily overwhelm the person.

Question 7

What is a crisis

Answer 7

A stressful situation that exceeds the adaptive capacities of a person

Question 8

What are the sixfactors that increase the intensity of stressors

Answer 8

1. severity of the stressor
2. chronicity (how long it lasts)
3. its timing
4. how closely it affects our lives
5. how expected it is
6. how controllable it is

Question 9

When you are stressed or depressed you are more likely too experience a situation as …

Answer 9

negative

Question 10

What is a person’s ability to withstand stress without being impaired called?

Answer 10

Stress tolerance

Question 11

The effects of stress may be cumulative with each stressful event making the system …

Answer 11

more reactive

Question 12

Which form of the 5HTTLPR gene is likely to cause depression when individuals are exposed to four or more stressful life events

Answer 12

two short forms (s/s genotype)

Question 13

Which gene is linked to how likely a person will become depressed in the face of life stress

Answer 13

the 5HTTLPR gene

Question 14

Twin studies have shown that differences in coping styles may be linked to …

Answer 14

underlying genetic differences

Question 15

What four individual characteristics have been identified as improving a person’s ability to handle life stress

Answer 15

1. (higher) levels of optimism
2. (greater) psychological control
3. (increased) self-esteem
4. (better) social support

Question 16

What are the two impacts on adolescents with parents who are depressed?

Answer 16

1. increased sensitivity to stressful events
2. increased likelihood of experiencing depression after stressful life events

Question 17

Which two severe stressors are children particularly vulnerable to?

Answer 17

1. war
2. terrorism

Question 18

What are the three key differences in the disorders of adjustment and acute stress disorder?

Answer 18

1. the [severity] of the disturbances
2. the [nature] of the stressors
3. the [time frame] which the disorders occur

Question 19

What two other disorders are in the new category of trauma and stressor-related disorders?

Answer 19

1. Adjustment disorder
2. Acute stress disorder

Question 20

What new category did the DSM-5 introduce (stress)

Answer 20

Trauma and stressor-related disorders

Question 21

Which DSM was PTSD classified as an anxiety disorder

Answer 21

DSM-IV-TR

Question 22

What is bad stress called?

Answer 22

Distress

Question 23

Seyle noted stress can occur in …

Answer 23

Negative and positive situations

Question 24

What are coping strategies?

Answer 24

Efforts to deal with stress

Question 25

What is stress?

Answer 25

the effects stressors create within an organism

Question 26

What are stressors?

Answer 26

External demands