Stress and Health Review

Psychologists define stress as

• the experience of realistic anxiety

• the process by which we appraise and respond to threatening or challenging events

• an attempt to reach some important goal

• physical, emotional, or mental exhaustion

Being confronted by an intruder who has broken into your house late at night is best described as a(n)

• fight-or-flight response

• general adaptation syndrome

• relative deprivation

• stressor

While taking a difficult test, Cindy's muscles tense and her heart pounds. These physiological responses are best described as

• stressors

• stress reactions

• stress appraisal

• immune deficiencies

One person regards a new job as a challenge, whereas another regards the same new job as a potential threat. These different perceptions best illustrate

• the general adaptation syndrome

• stress appraisal

• immune deficiencies

• psychoneuroimmunology

Luigi minimized the stress of testing positive for HIV by viewing this circumstance as an opportunity for a renewed religious commitment and spiritual growth. His reaction best illustrates the importance of

• an external locus of control

• the Type A Personality

• the general adaptation syndrome

• stress appraisal

In the 1920s, Walter Cannon discovered that emotion-arousing events trigger an outpouring of ________ from the adrenal glands.

• Stress Hormones

• Oxytocin

• Serotonin

• Lymphocytes

In a stressful situation, feelings of pain are dulled by the activation of

• an external locus of control

• NK Cells

• The sympathetic nervous system

• lymphocytes

When confronted with a stressful event, your sympathetic nervous system

• speeds up your stomach's digestive activity

• triggers an increase in the production of disease-fighting lymphocytes

• speeds up the removal of fat from your bloodstream

• increases your heart rate and respiration

As you are waiting to be interviewed for a job, your heart rate, body temperature, and breathing rate begin to increase. These physiological changes are produced by activation of the __________ Nervous system.

• Parasympathetic

• Sympathetic

• Somatic

• Central

An emergency reaction when dealing with a threat often includes sympathetic nervous system arousal and the mobilization of one's energy. This is best illustrated by

• resilience

• emotion-focused coping

• the fight-or-flight response

• the adaptation-level phenomenon