What is Stress?
Illnesses from Stress
Ways to Manage Stress
Time Management
Vocabulary
100
Any physical or physiological situation that produces stress
What are Stressors
100
The first stage of the general adaption syndrome.
What is Stage of Alarm.
100
This coping method is when the situation is appraised as not amenable to change, and rather than accepting that reality, one chooses not to think about it.
What is Denial/Distancing/Giving up.
100
This is the feeling you get when there are too many demands on ones time and energy.
What is Overload
100
This type of stress results from unpleasant stressors.
What is Distress
200
A type of stress that results from positive stressors.
What is Eustress
200
One of the top unhealthy behaviors amongst U.S. college students.
What is Overconsumption of Alcohol.
200
This is the best way to accept a situation that cannot be changed immediately.
What is the Emotion-focused coping method
200
Planning ahead, keeping a to do list, and clarifying intentions
What are three antidotes to overload
200
Efforts to manage a stressful situation regardless of whether those efforts are successful.
What is Coping
300
Name the four components of stress
What are environmental, mental, emotional, and physiological
300
Forms of stress that are so severe that they produce a serious, long lasting condition called this.
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
300
One way to practice the Emotion-focused method of coping
What is Let your problems go or ease your mind
300
This method helps you avoid feeling overloaded and promotes healthy habits
What is Time Management
300
A continual physiological response to stressors that can bring about a three-stage biological response called this.
What is The general adaption syndrome (GAS)
400
Stressful situations can be classified into three types.
What is harm and loss, threat, and challenge situations.
400
A variety of studies have shown that stress can impair the functions of this body system.
What is The Immune System.
400
Two ways to practice the problem-focused coping method
What is o Limit interaction with the stressor o Alter your perception of the stressor o Set attainable goals o Focus on your personal strengths, values, and positive qualities o Seek social support o Reduce Physical tension o Keep your sense of humor o Engage in sensory experiences
400
Taking breaks in studying and thinking about the exam realistically can aid in this.
What is test anxiety
400
This is a defense reaction that prepares the organism for conflict or escape by triggering hormonal cardiovascular, metabolic and other changes.
What is Fight or flight response
500
Four factors that affect the experience of stress.
What are predictability, personal control, belief in the outcome, and social support.
500
The percentage of the U.S population that is estimated to suffer from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
What is 4%
500
The three types of coping processes
What is Denial/Distancing/Giving up, Problem-focused coping, Emotion-focused coping
500
Preform a time audit, be energy efficient, and resist multitasking
What are good time management practices
500
This is a coordinated physiological response to stress involving the hypothalamus of the brain and the pituitary and adrenal glands.
What is Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis
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