MANAGING STRESS AND COPING WITH
LIFE'S CHALLENGES, HLTH 1100 chapter 3 with Complete Solutions STRESS - Correct Answer A series of mental and physiological responses and adaptations to a real or perceived threat to one's well-being.The body's automatic physical response to outside forces.STRESSOR - Correct Answer A physical, social, or psychological event or condition that upsets homeostasis and produces a stress response.EUSTRESS - Correct Answer Stress that presents opportunities for personal growth; positive stress.Good stress Stress that produces positive effects DISTRESS - Correct Answer Stress that can have a detrimental effect on health; negative stress.extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain Bad stress To cause pain or sorrow; to trouble or worry.ACUTE STRESS - Correct Answer The short-term physiological response to an immediate perceived threat.EPISODIC ACUTE STRESS - Correct Answer The state of regularly reacting with wild, acute stress about one thing or another.CHRONIC STRESS - Correct Answer An ongoing state of physiological arousal in response to ongoing or numerous perceived threats.TRAUMATIC STRESS - Correct Answer A physiological and mental response that occurs for a prolonged period of time after a major accident, war, assault, natural disaster, or an event in which one may be seriously hurt, killed, or witness horrible things.HOMEOSTASIS - Correct Answer A balanced physiological state in which all the body's systems function smoothly. 1 / 2
ADAPTIVE RESPONSE - Correct Answer The physiological adjustments the body makes in an attempt to restore homeostasis.GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME (GAS) - Correct Answer The pattern followed in the physiological response to stress, consisting of the alarm, resistance, and exhaustion phases.
FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT RESPONSE
Alarm - Correct Answer Physiological arousal response in which the body prepares to combat or escape a real or perceived threat. survival response "sympathetic" sympathetic - Correct Answer An organism's survival response, readying the body for action. Stems from Sympathetic Nervous System.AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (ANS) - Correct Answer cerebral cortex triggers. The portion of the central nervous system that regulates body functions (heart, glands, and breathing) that a person does not normally consciously control. prepares you for action
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-sympathetic -parasympathetic SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM - Correct Answer Branch of the autonomic nervous system responsible for stress arousal. responsible for initiating the flight or fight response and increasing heart rate and breating rate associated with fight or flight response; increases heart rate; increases breathing rate; lowers digestive rate; causes pupil dilation increases heart rate and blood pressure PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM - Correct Answer Branch of the autonomic nervous system responsible for slowing systems stimulated by the stress response.HYPOTHALAMUS - Correct Answer A structure in the brain that controls the sympathetic nervous system and directs the stress response.Ex