Stress and Stressors
The positive stress response.
What is eustress?
The theorist credited with creating the GAS model.
Who is Selye?
The year on your syllabus associated with Holmes and Rahe.
What is 1967?
The theorists credited with developing the Transactional Theory of Stress and Coping.
Who are Lazarus and Folkman?
A male sea creature that gives birth.
What is a seahorse?
Stressors that arise from events or situations that challenge an individual’s mental or emotional balance; they are often subjective and varying significantly from person to person.
What is psychological?
What GAS stands for.
What is general adaptation syndrome?
The number of common life events on the SR(R)S?
What is 43?
The part of the transactional theory where we evaluate the significance of the event and whether anything is at stake in this encounter.
What is primary appraisal?
An Australian animal that poops cubes.
What is a wombat?
The nature of a stressor that originates within the individual.
Note: be specific.
What is an internal stressor?
Two physiological responses that increases initially when faced with a stressor.
What are heart rate and breathing rate?
The highest LCU value on the scale.
What is 100?
The part of the transactional theory where we evaluate our ability to control or overcome the situation in which we find ourselves.
What is secondary appraisal?
This is the deadliest animal in the world.
What is a mosquito?
The year that Selye's stress definition is credited with.
What is 1936?
This stage occurs if the stressor continues without relief (the stressor is not dealt with successfully during the resistance stage), or if multiple stressors occur one after another
What is exhaustion?
A total stress score of this range would be considered a moderate level of stress and the chances of developing stress related illness is about 50%.
What is 150-299?
Confronting the problem, seeking social support, and planful problem solving are all skills of this method of coping.
What is problem-focused?
This animal can only eat when their head is upside down.
What is a flamingo?
The type of stress that triggers physiological changes that can pose serious health risks.
What is distress?
During this, the body reacts as if it were injured; for example, blood pressure and body temperature drop.
Note: be specific (one extra attempt given if correct, but not specific enough)
What is shock?
The stressful event that is allocated the lowest LCU.
What is minor violations of the law?
The emotion-focused coping skills (as listed on the slides) that involves detaching oneself and minimising the significance of the situation.
What is distancing?
The land animal with the highest blood pressure.
What is a giraffe?