Chapter 8- Stress

What is Stress?

• Your body's natural response to a new or threatening situation.

• Fight or flight

• Physical emotions

• Mental/emotional emotions

What is a stressor?

• Anything that triggers stress for you

• Your body's natural response to a new or threatening situation

• Eustress

• Bad stress

What is distress? (choose all that apply)

• Stress that keeps you from reaching a goal.

• A type of stress that can make you sick

• A type of stress that helps you reach goals

• I have no idea

If distress is "bad stress" then positive stress must be....

• Bad stress

• good stress

• stress can't be positive

• I have no idea

Positive stress is.... (check all that apply)

• Stress that makes you feel good

• Stress that makes you happy

• Stress that makes you sick

• Stress that makes you anxious.

Examples of "common stressors" are.... (Check all that apply)

• Arguing with friends, significant other, or your parents

• Listening to others argue or finding out someone is sick

• Finding our your parents are divorcing

• None of the above

What is a personal stress inventory?

• A list you make of all changes you have had in the last year

• A stress test

• A test that tells you that you are getting sick

• I have no idea

What is a stress response?

• A set of physical changes that prepare your body to respond to the stressor.

• An emotional response to stress

• The flight or fight repsonse

• Your score on a stress test.

Fatigue is defined as.... (check all that apply)

• Phyisical exhaustion

• Mental exhaustion

• Emotional exhaustion

• All of the above.

Other effects of stress could be..... (check all that apply)

• Depression, anger and frustration

• boredom, confusion, anxiety

• Happiness

• poor decision making, becoming more accident prone