Physical Reactions
Good and Bad Stress
Coping Strategies
Vocabulary
General Adaptation Syndrome
100
The physical response of stress when you feel hopeless and sad
What is depression?
100

This is present in day-to-day living. It motivates learning and growth.

What is Mild Anxiety?

100
This is a positive way to cope with stress and causes endorphins to be released
What is exercise?
100
This is what causes stress.
What is a stressor?
100
This is the last phase of the General Adaptation Phase
What is the Exhaustion Phase?
200
The physical response to stress when the part of your body that helps to fight diseases suffers
What is a decrease in the immune system?
200

This causes a person to lose control and experience dread and terror.

What is Panic?

200

This is a negative coping strategy that includes the addictive chemical nicotine

What is smoking?

200
These are techniques that may be used as different forms to helping to reduce stress
What is Alternative Stress Management Techniques?
200
This happens when your muscles tense, your heart rate increases, and your blood pressure goes up
What is the Alarm Phase?
300
What is the term for when there is a hole in your stomach lining due to an abundance of stress?
What is ulcers?
300

This narrows a person's perceptual fields so that they only focus on immediate concerns. They may miss details or have trouble concentrating.

What is moderate anxiety?

300
This is a positive coping skill that you can use with a trusted adult or friend
What is talking out your feelings?
300
When this type of stress occurs in your brain
What is mental stress?
300
During this phase, your body is trying to return back to its average state or Equilibrium
What is the Resistance Phase?
400
The stress response when insulin and sugar start to play a role
What is diabetes or Type 2 diabetes
400

When something occurs in your life that takes you by surprise and is not on purpose.

What is an accident/trauma or a stressor?

400
This is a negative coping strategy that includes foods that are high in fat, sugar, and calories
What is over-eating?
400
When stress is taking a toll on your body it is this type of stress
What is physical stress
400
This is the state where your immune system begins to work into overdrive and starts to suffer
What is the Exhaustion Phase
500
Several physical responses when your body is immediately under stress
What is pupils dilate, blood pressure rises, sweaty palms
500

This causes a person to focus on specific details and worry over situations in life. It can cause a person to have a fearful expression and headache.

What is severe anxiety?

500
This is the coping strategy that has to do with the R.E.M. cycle?
What is sleeping?
500

This is a localized response of the body to stress. It involves the reflex pain response and the inflammatory response.

What is Local Adaptation Syndrome?

500
This is your bodies first and natural response to danger
What is "Fight or Flight"?
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