Coping With Stress: Introduction

Which skill involves describing how the body reacts?

• Body response to stress

• Steps for making friends

• Tips for cleaning a room

• Rules for classroom games

When your heart beats faster and muscles tense, what is likely happening?

• Your body is responding to stress

• You are digesting a big meal

• You are solving a math puzzle

• You are sleeping peacefully

What is the first step to coping well with stress?

• Copy friends’ habits blindly

• Buy expensive gadgets

• Avoid all physical activity

• Recognize what stress is

Which body response is part of the stress reaction?

• Faster breathing rate

• Lower appetite always

• Permanent muscle growth

• Instant hair color change

If you explain stress to a friend, which idea is most accurate?

• Stress never affects school life

• Stress means you are always ill

• Stress is only caused by junk food

• Stress is the body’s reaction to challenges

Which habit can make stress harder to handle?

• Keeping problems bottled up

• Writing a short to-do list

• Taking a brief walk outside

• Drinking water regularly

Which statement shows understanding of coping steps?

• Ignore stress, sleep less, worry more

• Blame friends, avoid help, quit tasks

• Identify stress, choose strategies, reflect

• Eat more sugar, talk less, rush work

Which statement best defines stress?

• Your body’s response to changes around you

• A disease caused by germs in the air

• A feeling that never helps you solve problems

• Only the reaction to homework at school

Which action uses positive stress in a helpful way?

• Ignore all deadlines and plans

• Use the energy to start studying

• Avoid starting the task completely

• Stay worried without taking steps

Which phrase best describes the fight-or-flight response shown in the image?

• Body’s quick survival reaction to danger

• Muscles’ recovery after exercise at night

• Body’s slow digestion after a large meal

• Mind’s daydreaming reaction to boredom