Stress & Health

__________ is the term used to describe the physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging.

• Stress

• Depression

• Hunger

• Frustration

What is the effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being?

• Eustress

• Distress

• Stress

• Anxiety

A __________ is an unpredictable, large-scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as overwhelming feelings of threat.

• Catastrophe

• Frustration

• Social Stressor

• Burnout

What is the term for an annoyance in everyday life?

• Frustration

• Issue

• Catastrophe

• Panic

The system of cells, organs, and chemicals of the body that responds to attacks from diseases, infections, and injuries is known as the ______.

• Immune System

• Nervous System

• Autonomic System

• Sympathetic System

Negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration is called ____.

• distress

• eustress

• depression

• displacement

Actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors are called ______.

• defense mechanisms

• coping strategies

• repressors

• stressors

What is a specific type of stress caused by excessive work?

• Burnout

• Repression

• Displacement

• Compensation

________coping strategies try to eliminate the source of a stress or reduce its impact through direct actions.

• Defense Mechanisms

• Primary Appraisal

• Secondary Appraisal

• Optimism

A psychological defense mechanism, in which the person refuses to consciously remember a threatening or unacceptable event, instead pushing those events into the unconscious mind, is called _____

• repression

• regression

• displacement

• projection