Stress and Theories
This psychologist proposed the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) in 1936.
Who is Hans Selye?
A stressor caused by natural disasters or loud environments.
What is an environmental stressor?
A hormone commonly released in both the alarm and resistance stages.
What is cortisol?
This scale measures life stress based on 43 life events.
What is the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)?
his sleep stage is associated with vivid dreams and muscle atonia.
What is REM sleep?
This is the stage of GAS where the body attempts to return to homeostasis while still fighting the stressor.
What is the resistance stage?
Stressors like discrimination or acculturative challenges are classified as this type.
What are cultural stressors?
Increased heart rate, pupil dilation, and increased respiration are part of this response.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
This is a limitation of the SRRS.
What is cultural bias or lack of individual differences?
Sleep is essential for this brain process, where memories are stored and strengthened.
What is memory consolidation?
Alarm, resistance, and exhaustion stages.
What are the three stages of General Adaptation Syndrome?
These are stressors that come from relationships, bullying, or family conflict.
What are social stressors?
The part of the brain that initiates the stress response.
What is the hypothalamus?
This theory sees stress as a transaction between a person and their environment.
What is Lazarus and Folkman’s Transactional Model?
This sleep theory suggests sleep evolved to enhance survival and conserve energy.
What is the evolutionary perspective of sleep?
This type of stress results from positive but challenging events.
What is eustress?
This kind of stress lasts weeks or months and can be harmful if unmanaged.
What is chronic stress?
This nervous system division is activated to calm the body during the resistance stage.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Evaluating whether an event is a threat, challenge, or irrelevant.
What is primary appraisal?
One physical effect of chronic sleep deprivation.
What is obesity, heart disease, or weakened immune function?
According to Selye’s GAS model, the body becomes more susceptible to illness during this stage.
What is the exhaustion stage?
The three main characteristics of a stressor used to describe it.
What are nature, duration, and strength?
Weakened immune system, inflammatory disease, or high blood pressure.
What are some consequences of chronic stress?
This type of coping involves actively trying to eliminate or reduce the stressor.
What is problem-focused coping?
his study found that limiting phone use before bed improved sleep quality, mood, and working memory.
What is He et al. (2020)?