Sources of Stress
Stress Terminology
The Eye and Ear
Sensation
Perception
100
Specific events that we label as threatening are?
What are stressors?
100
This is the most desirable type of stress.
What is eustress?
100
These photoreceptors are located on the fovea.
What are cones?
100
This is another name for the sense of taste.
What is gustation?
100
All information coming in from the senses must be processed by the _____ in order to be perceived.
What is the brain?
200
According to the Holmes and Rahe (1967), the most stressful life change is ______.
What is death of a spouse?
200
Stress suppresses the immune system. This can make use more susceptible to ______, when cells start to divide uncontrollably.
What is cancer?
200
This snail-shaped structure of the ear contains hair cells, which are integral to hearing.
What is the cochlea?
200
The sense of taste and smell work hand-in-hand. Both of these senses are considered ______ senses.
What are chemical?
200
The 3 process of perception are _____________.
What are selection, organization and interpretation?
300
The most stressful type of conflict is ______.
What is avoidance-avoidance?
300
These people tend to be competitive, impatient, and sometimes hostile.
Who are Type A personalities?
300
Hearing and vision are processed in these 2 lobes of the brain.
What are the temporal lobes and the occipital lobe?
300
The vestibular sense relies on the ______ and _______ to send messages to the brain.
What are the semicircular canals and vestibular sacs?
300
When you perceive a soccer ball being larger than a golf ball, you are using what?
What is frame of reference?
400
If your goal is to get over 90% on the next exam but score less than a 70%, you will probably experience this negative emotional state.
What is frustration?
400
____________ strategies work to deal directly with a stressor in order to decrease or eliminate it.
What are problem-focused coping?
400
This structure of the eye controls the pupil.
What is the iris?
400
The kinesthetic receptors are _______________.
What is muscles, joints and tendons?
400
Eye doctors often use this test during eye exams to see if your eyes turn inward on an object.
What is convergence?
500
Working mothers often experience this when trying to juggle working and raising children.
What is role conflict?
500
This field of psychology looks at the interactions between physical health and psychological well-being.
What is health psychology?
500
This type of deafness affects the middle ear and may require people to invest in hearing aids.
What is conductive deafness?
500
These chemicals are part of the sense of olfaction and affect one's behaviors and sexual attraction.
What are pheromones?
500
The old lady-young lady example from the beginning of Chapter 4 is an example of what?
What is figure-ground?
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