STRESS AND HEALTH EXAM SCRIPT 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Dream - ✔✔a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a
sleeping person's mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery,
discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer's delusional acceptance of the
content and later difficulties remembering it.
✔✔ Stress - ✔✔the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called
stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
✔✔Addiction - ✔✔A physiological or psychological dependence on a drug
✔✔cocaine - ✔✔a powerful and addictive stimulant, derived from the coca plant,
producing temporarily increased alertness and euphoria
✔✔Depressant - ✔✔A drug that slows the central nervous system
✔✔hallucinogen - ✔✔A drug that distorts perception, thought, and mood
✔✔Psychoactive - ✔✔describes a drug or medicine that affects the brain and changes
how a person perceives, thinks, or feels
✔✔stimulant - ✔✔A drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, the
heart, and other organs
✔✔Type A - ✔✔competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-
prone people
✔✔consciousness - ✔✔our awareness of ourselves and our environment
✔✔deprivation - ✔✔the state of lacking or doing without something; loss
✔✔insomnia - ✔✔recurring problems in falling or staying asleep
✔✔REM - ✔✔describes sleep in which vivid dreams typically occur; this type of sleep
increases as the night progresses while stage 4 sleep decreases
✔✔Stress - ✔✔the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called
stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
✔✔withdrawal - ✔✔the discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an
addictive drug
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Dream - ✔✔a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a
sleeping person's mind. Dreams are notable for their hallucinatory imagery,
discontinuities, and incongruities, and for the dreamer's delusional acceptance of the
content and later difficulties remembering it.
✔✔ Stress - ✔✔the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called
stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
✔✔Addiction - ✔✔A physiological or psychological dependence on a drug
✔✔cocaine - ✔✔a powerful and addictive stimulant, derived from the coca plant,
producing temporarily increased alertness and euphoria
✔✔Depressant - ✔✔A drug that slows the central nervous system
✔✔hallucinogen - ✔✔A drug that distorts perception, thought, and mood
✔✔Psychoactive - ✔✔describes a drug or medicine that affects the brain and changes
how a person perceives, thinks, or feels
✔✔stimulant - ✔✔A drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, the
heart, and other organs
✔✔Type A - ✔✔competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-
prone people
✔✔consciousness - ✔✔our awareness of ourselves and our environment
✔✔deprivation - ✔✔the state of lacking or doing without something; loss
✔✔insomnia - ✔✔recurring problems in falling or staying asleep
✔✔REM - ✔✔describes sleep in which vivid dreams typically occur; this type of sleep
increases as the night progresses while stage 4 sleep decreases
✔✔Stress - ✔✔the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called
stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
✔✔withdrawal - ✔✔the discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an
addictive drug
