What is Stress?
Stress Process Models
The Biology of Stress
Stress Management
100

True or False: Stress is inevitable.

True

100

In managing stress, we utilize the mind-body __________.

What is connection?

100

The stress process is a series of ___________ changes in the brain and body.

What is biochemical?

100
The result of too little stress.

What is inactivity?

200

Another word for negative stress.

What is distress?
200

Anxiety can be ____________ or ____________ based on the perception of control.

What is debilitative and facilitative?

200

The biochemical response prepares a person to deal with ____________.

What is threat or danger?


200
One of the stages we will target in this class.

What is managing the perception of demands (Stage 2) or the stress response (Stage 3)?

300

Stress is the substantial imbalance between ____________ and ____________ capability that has important consequences.

What are demand (environment) and response (coping/management)?

300

At least 3 of the 4 sources of stress demands.

What are environment, social, physiological, or thoughts?

300

The natural restorative process that occurs when a situation is no longer perceived as dangerous.

What is the relaxation response?

300

It is important to manage chronic stress because it leads to _______ ________. 

What is chronic disease?


400

Another word for positive stress.


What is Eustress?
400

The four stages of the stress process.

What are environmental demand, perceptions of demand (threat), stress response (physiological response), and behavioral consequence (outcome)?

400

The main brain region dealing with stress.

What is the hypothalamus?

400

A personality type that deals with stress by inhibiting emotions and avoiding social contact.

What is a Type D personality?

500
Stress is not what happens to you, but the result of how events are _________.

What is perceived?

500

A Schedule of _______ ___________ allows one to quantify how life changes and stressful events increase vulnerability to illness.

What is the Schedule of Recent Experience?

500
2 of the 3 main stress hormones.

Adrenaline, norepinephrine, or cortisol.

500

When an overload of stress leads to anxiety, panic, anger, and potentially a breakdown.

What is burnout?

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