Vocab
What are situations that bring about stress
What are stressors?
What kind of coping is accepting stressful situations and realizing they not changeable
What is emotion based coping
What is physical and mental illness resulting from severe trauma
What is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
What component of stress includes the fight or flight response
What is the physiological component of stress
What is uneasiness or apprehension, frequently accompanied by physiological symptoms, before a test
What is test anxiety
What are the efforts that to manage a stressful situation regardless of whether those efforts are successful?
What is coping
______ experience less stress than pessimists
What are optimists
What are the the stages of general adaptive syndrome
What are
Stage of alarm
Stage of Resistance
Stage of exhaustion
What are positive events that may involve major life transitions and may cause stress and what component of stress are they under
What is the environmental component of stress
What is the feeling that there are too many demands on one's time and energy from being confronted with too many challenges
What is overload
What are stressful events that include death, loss of property, injury, and illness
What are harm and loss situtations
What are some examples of something a person who is in denial/distancing/giving up
What is drinking, TV watching increase, oversleeping, overeating
What is the stage of GAD where the body is continuously producing epinephrine, raising blood pressure, etc
What is the stage of resistance
What component of stress includes unpleasant emotions that arise from one’s appraisal of a situation as harmful or threatening
What is the emotional component of stress
What is an example of a solution to test anxiety
What is:
Realistically appraise the importance of the exam
Remind self that focusing on grade will distract from learning
Give periods of quiet time
Prepare for test
Do not cram
Sleep
Stop worrying when taking test, close eyes and breathe (break for 20-30 seconds)
Test-taking is a skill, skill comes with practice
What is a three phase biological response to stress?
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
Having someone to talk to and rely on to relieve stress:
What is social support
What are the long term effects of stress
Change in metabolism (Causing weight gain), type 2 diabetes, suppresses immune system, increase risk of cancer
What is the term that means knowing when a stressful situation will occur will produce less stress than not knowing
What is predictability
What are the symptoms of test anxiety
What is an upset stomach, restlessness, sleeping issues, irritability, nervous easting
What is a coordinated physiological response to stress involving the hypothalamus of the brain and the pituitary and adrenal glands
What is the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis
Ways to practice problem based coping (name at least 2)
What is:
Limit or eliminate interaction with stressor
Alter perception of stressful situation
Have confidence in ability to lessen stress
Change belief + outcome
Seek social support
Reduce physical tension (go on walk, bike, yoga)
Be funny, laugh, joke
What happens as a result of fight or flight. Name at least four
Elevated heart rate
Elevated blood pressure
Constricts blood vessels of skin
Dilate pupil
Increase reticular brain activity
Liberates glucose and free fatty acids from body storage sites
What component of stress is the appraisal of a situation as absolutely or potentially damaging to one's physical or psychological well-being or a threat to one's survival, and believing that one's personal resources are insufficient to ward off or overcome the threat to one's well-being.
What is the mental component of stress
An example of test anxiety that focuses on a student worrying that others will notice their possible failures
What is fear of autonomy and exposure