MANAGING STRESS AND COPING WITH LIFE'S CHALLENGES, HLTH 1100 chapter 3 with Complete Solutions
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MANAGING STRESS AND COPING WITH LIFE'S CHALLENGES, HLTH 1100 chapter 3 with Complete Solutions
STRESS - Correct Answer A series of mental and physiological responses and adaptations to a real or perceived threat to one's well-being.
The body's automatic physical response to outside forces.
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MANAGING STRESS AND COPING WITH
LIFE'S CHALLENGES, HLTH 1100 chapter 3
with Complete Solutions
STRESS - Correct Answer A series of mental and physiological responses and adaptations to a real or
perceived threat to one's well-being.
The body's automatic physical response to outside forces.
STRESSOR - Correct Answer A physical, social, or psychological event or condition that upsets
homeostasis and produces a stress response.
EUSTRESS - Correct Answer Stress that presents opportunities for personal growth; positive stress.
Good stress
Stress that produces positive effects
DISTRESS - Correct Answer Stress that can have a detrimental effect on health; negative stress.
extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain
Bad stress
To cause pain or sorrow; to trouble or worry.
ACUTE STRESS - Correct Answer The short-term physiological response to an immediate perceived
threat.
EPISODIC ACUTE STRESS - Correct Answer The state of regularly reacting with wild, acute stress
about one thing or another.
CHRONIC STRESS - Correct Answer An ongoing state of physiological arousal in response to ongoing
or numerous perceived threats.
TRAUMATIC STRESS - Correct Answer A physiological and mental response that occurs for a
prolonged period of time after a major accident, war, assault, natural disaster, or an event in which
one may be seriously hurt, killed, or witness horrible things.
HOMEOSTASIS - Correct Answer A balanced physiological state in which all the body's systems
function smoothly.
, ADAPTIVE RESPONSE - Correct Answer The physiological adjustments the body makes in an attempt
to restore homeostasis.
GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME (GAS) - Correct Answer The pattern followed in the physiological
response to stress, consisting of the alarm, resistance, and exhaustion phases.
FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT RESPONSE
Alarm - Correct Answer Physiological arousal response in which the body prepares to combat or
escape a real or perceived threat. survival response "sympathetic"
sympathetic - Correct Answer An organism's survival response, readying the body for action. Stems
from Sympathetic Nervous System.
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (ANS) - Correct Answer cerebral cortex triggers. The portion of the
central nervous system that regulates body functions (heart, glands, and breathing) that a person
does not normally consciously control. prepares you for action
2 branches
-sympathetic
-parasympathetic
SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM - Correct Answer Branch of the autonomic nervous system
responsible for stress arousal. responsible for initiating the flight or fight response and increasing
heart rate and breating rate
associated with fight or flight response; increases heart rate; increases breathing rate; lowers
digestive rate; causes pupil dilation
increases heart rate and blood pressure
PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM - Correct Answer Branch of the autonomic nervous system
responsible for slowing systems stimulated by the stress response.
HYPOTHALAMUS - Correct Answer A structure in the brain that controls the sympathetic nervous
system and directs the stress response.
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