Chapter 3 Quiz Sections 1 and 2

What is STRESS?

• An event or situation that causes stress.

• The response of your mind and body being challenged or threatened.

What is a stressor?

• An event or situation that causes stress.

• The response of your body and mind being challenged or threatened.

Negative stress in known as

• Distress

• Eustress

Positive stress is known as

• Eustress

• Distress

A catastrophe is

• An everyday problem that can be easily solved.

• an event that threatens lives and may destroy property.

Fight-or-flight response is

• when you prepare to either "fight" the stressor or "take flight" and escape.

• how you recognize stress, but not respond to it.

A good friend is in the hospital with a serious illness. This stressor can be classified as

• an everyday problem

• a major life change

• Savage

• an environmental problem

The stage when your body adapts to the continued presence of a stressor is the 

• alarm stage
• resistance stage
• exhaustion stage
• adaption stage

During the alarm stage when your heart beats faster, your breathing speeds up, your muscles tense, and your attention narrows as you focus on the stressor is called fight-or-flight.

• True
• False

Stress is never a trigger of an asthmatic attack.

• True
• False