Stress: A Natural Part of Your Life
How Stress Affects You
Defense Mechanisms
Managing Your Stress
Preventing Distress
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The combination of a new or possibly threatening situation and your body's natural response to the situation.
What is Stress?
100
Feeling of extreme tiredness.
What is Fatigue?
100
“You’re late,” Mr. Richards told Jodi. “No, I’m not!” Jodi said. Jodi is using a(n) _____________________________ called denial to try to relieve her stress quickly.
What is a Defense Mechanism.
100
Feelings are also know as this.
What are Emotions?
100
Katrina has reduced her stress by thinking ahead about what she needs to do and is making a(n) ______________________________.
What is a Plan.
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Anything that causes a stress response.
What is a Stressor?
200
Your body's reaction to a stressor. Also known as the "fight or flight" response.
What is Stress Response
200
Defense mechanism where you make excuses for why you did something.
What is Rationalization?
200
Changing the way you think about a stressor, and changing your emotional response to the stressor.
What is Reframing?
200
Making appropriate choices about how to use your time.
What is Time Management?
300
Negative physical, mental, or emotional strain in response to a stressor.
What is Distress?
300
Josh just got an important English test back. He figured he got a B, but it was a D. The hormone __________ triggered a release of sugar into his bloodstream beginning the "fight or flight" response.
What is Epinephrine.
300
Ignoring reality or pretending that something doesn’t exist is what type of defense mechanism.
What is Denial?
300
The ability to handle stress in healthy ways.
What is Stress Management?
300
In order to prevent stress, Jimmy makes a list of all the tasks he needs to get done. Then, he arranges those tasks in order of greatest importance to least importance. Jimmy is demonstrating how to ______________________________.
What is Prioritize?
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Stress response that happens when winning, succeeding, and achieving. Also know as Positive Stress.
What is Eustress?
400
How long can your body handle a stress response?
A Short Time.
400
Putting the blame for your problem on someone else is what type of defense mechanism.
What is Projection?
400
One way of managing your stress is to tell people what you want and how you feel. True or False: This is called Asserting Yourself.
True
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If you are irritable or unkind because of your stress you might be A) facing a new challenge. B) feeling distress. C) damaging your relationships. D) all of the above.
D) all of the above
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What are three (3) Major Life Changes?
Being pregnant. Experiencing a death of a family member or friend. Parents getting divorced. Becoming involved with drugs or alcohol. Moving to a new town or school.
500
What are three (3) Short-Term Responses to stress?
Muscles Tense. Dry Mouth. Hearing & Vision Sharpen. Feel Sick.
500
What are three (3) common stressors for teens?
Arguing with siblings or parents. Moving to new home or school. Getting Glasses or Braces. Starting to date. Trying out for a new sports team. Being suspended from school. Starting to use alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs. Experiencing the separation of parents. Failing classes in school.
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What are three (3) commons signs of distress?
Headaches Dry Mouth Muscle Aches Fatigue Frustration Depression Worrying Confusion
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Who is Mr. Blunck's favorite professional football team?
Denver Broncos
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