Understanding Stress: A New Perspective

What profession does the speaker belong to?

• Cardiologist

• Health psychologist

• Teacher

• Neuroscientist

For how many years had the speaker been teaching that stress is harmful before changing their mind?

• 20 years

• 15 years

• 10 years

• 5 years

How many adults in the United States were tracked in the study mentioned?

• 30,000

• 40,000

• 20,000

• 10,000

What was the increased risk of dying for people who experienced a lot of stress and believed it was harmful?

• 53 percent

• 43 percent

• 63 percent

• 33 percent

How many Americans are estimated to have died prematurely from the belief that stress is bad for you over the eight years of tracking deaths?

• 182,000

• 102,000

• 202,000

• 82,000

What does a typical stress response do to your blood vessels?

• They remain unchanged

• They expand

• They constrict

• They relax

What hormone is known as the 'cuddle hormone'?

• Adrenaline

• Insulin

• Cortisol

• Oxytocin

What does oxytocin do to your brain's social instincts?

• It overstimulates them

• It fine-tunes them

• It has no effect

• It dulls them

According to the speaker, what is a major role of oxytocin in your body?

• To stimulate hunger

• To decrease oxygen levels

• To protect your cardiovascular system from stress

• To increase blood pressure

What did the study involving 1,000 adults in the United States find about stress and helping others?

• Helping others increased stress

• Helping others doubled the risk of dying

• Helping others had no effect on stress

• Helping others showed no stress-related increase in dying