Health and Stress Management Exam #1 ;
Questions with Complete Solutions
CHP 1:
Definition of Stress Correct Answer-A perceived threat (real or imagined) to
our mind, body, spirit, or emotions
Holistic medicine: Correct Answer-a healing approach that honors the
integration, balance, and harmony of mind, body, spirit, and emotions to
promote inner peace. Every technique used in stress management is considered
to support the concept of holistic medicine.
Walter Cannon Correct Answer-Twentieth- century Harvard physiologist who
conined the term "flight for fight"
Stress reaction Correct Answer-the body's initial (central nervous system)
reaction to perceive threat.
Freeze response Correct Answer-part of the stress response, where the
individual neither fights nor flees but freezes like a deer caught in the
headlights, paralyzed as if the person has forgotten to run.
Flight-or-Fight Response Correct Answer-a term coined by Walter Cannon;
the instinctive physiological responses preparing the body, when confronted
with a threat, to either fight or flee; an evolutionary survival dynamic.
Fight is triggered by? Correct Answer-Anger or aggression
, Health and Stress Management Exam #1 ;
Questions with Complete Solutions
Flight is triggered by? Correct Answer-Fear, PTSD's experience the "freeze"
response where the body tries to do both
Stage 1 of fight or flight response? Correct Answer-Stimuli from one or more
of the five senses are sent to the brain (scream, smell of fire, taste of poison,
passing truck in your lane)
Stage 2 of fight or flight response? Correct Answer-Brain deciphers as either a
threat or non-threat. If not a threat, response is over. If it is a threat, brain
activates nervous and endocrine systems to quickly prepare for defense and/or
escape
Stage 3 of fight or flight response? Correct Answer-Body stays activated,
aroused, or "keyed up" till threat is over
Stage 4 of fight or flight response? Correct Answer-Body returns to
homeostasis, calmness, once threat is gone
Homeostasis Correct Answer-a physiological state of complete calmness or
rest; markers include resting heart rate, blood pressure and ventilation.
Stress Response: Correct Answer-The release of epinephrine and nor-
epinephrine to prepare various organs and tissues for fight of flight.
Questions with Complete Solutions
CHP 1:
Definition of Stress Correct Answer-A perceived threat (real or imagined) to
our mind, body, spirit, or emotions
Holistic medicine: Correct Answer-a healing approach that honors the
integration, balance, and harmony of mind, body, spirit, and emotions to
promote inner peace. Every technique used in stress management is considered
to support the concept of holistic medicine.
Walter Cannon Correct Answer-Twentieth- century Harvard physiologist who
conined the term "flight for fight"
Stress reaction Correct Answer-the body's initial (central nervous system)
reaction to perceive threat.
Freeze response Correct Answer-part of the stress response, where the
individual neither fights nor flees but freezes like a deer caught in the
headlights, paralyzed as if the person has forgotten to run.
Flight-or-Fight Response Correct Answer-a term coined by Walter Cannon;
the instinctive physiological responses preparing the body, when confronted
with a threat, to either fight or flee; an evolutionary survival dynamic.
Fight is triggered by? Correct Answer-Anger or aggression
, Health and Stress Management Exam #1 ;
Questions with Complete Solutions
Flight is triggered by? Correct Answer-Fear, PTSD's experience the "freeze"
response where the body tries to do both
Stage 1 of fight or flight response? Correct Answer-Stimuli from one or more
of the five senses are sent to the brain (scream, smell of fire, taste of poison,
passing truck in your lane)
Stage 2 of fight or flight response? Correct Answer-Brain deciphers as either a
threat or non-threat. If not a threat, response is over. If it is a threat, brain
activates nervous and endocrine systems to quickly prepare for defense and/or
escape
Stage 3 of fight or flight response? Correct Answer-Body stays activated,
aroused, or "keyed up" till threat is over
Stage 4 of fight or flight response? Correct Answer-Body returns to
homeostasis, calmness, once threat is gone
Homeostasis Correct Answer-a physiological state of complete calmness or
rest; markers include resting heart rate, blood pressure and ventilation.
Stress Response: Correct Answer-The release of epinephrine and nor-
epinephrine to prepare various organs and tissues for fight of flight.
