P.5.3 Distinguish between stress and distress.
P.5.4 Identify environmental factors that lead to stress.
P.5.5 Explain Hans Seyle’s General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS).
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Usually caused by frustration, _____ is another common reaction to stress.
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_____ is the result to continued frustration, where a person feels emotionally exhausted, or physically worn out.
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A stressful reaction to an oral presentation may lead to a student being unable to prepare, due to their difficulty _____ .
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If stress persists over a long time, the person becomes exhausted, and in some cases even _____ .
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_____ _____ is a personality trait that can affect the strength of your stress reaction. If you don’t express despair, depression, and anger, you are more likely to develop cancer.
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When you experience prolonged stress, it decreases the ability of your immune system, which is why you catch the flu in the middle of _____ _____ .
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_____ _____ _____ was developed by Hans Selye to describe the three stages of the body's stress reaction: 1. Alarm, 2. Resistance,
3. Exhaustion.
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There are several reactions to stress, and they range from _____ to beneficial.
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Severe stress can lead to _____ behaviors such as suicide, alcoholism, & drug addiction. While more short term changes include behaviors such as trembling, pacing, & shaky voice.
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_____ is important when coping with stress, demonstrated by J.M. Weiss and his rat-shocking experiment. One group of rats could avoid the shock and developed fewer ulcers. The other group had no control over the shocks and they developed more ulcers.
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Although effective for saving your life at the time of the emergency, the fight-flight response is actually _____ to your health in the long run, since it causes high blood pressure and poor digestion.
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When a person's adrenal gland is no longer able to secrete hormones, they have reached the ___ stage of Selye's GAS.
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Similarly to how the body produces new tissue when you are cut, it also has a process for healing stress wounds. These responses to stress are _____ .
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Air traffic controllers suffer from the highest incidence of _____ _____ , since they juggle hundreds of lives & since a minor error can mean mass death.
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If a person is finding the means to cope with a stressor, and warding off adverse reactions, they are in the _____ stage of the Selye's GAS, where the body continues to secrete hormones and where blood pressure stays high.
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Since you no longer need to fight wild animals, the coping mechanisms that worked for our ancestors are not necessarily _____ in modern society.
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Friedman proposed the concept of the _____ _____ _____ , after he recognized the link between the inability to relax and the increased coronary artery disease. (no hyphen)
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_____ are a symptom of the exhaustion stage, confirmed by soldiers who have been exposed to prolonged combat, and could no longer trust their eyes and ears.
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The most common emotional (or cognitive) response to a stressor is _____ , which is the feeling of an imminent but unclear threat.
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_____ symptoms are real symptoms, such as muscle pain or a stomach ache, and they can be caused your thoughts, which produce physiological changes in your body.
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