Stress management exam 1 2025
Questions and Answers
What term best describes the negative stress caused by trauma, loss, and other upsetting
occurrences? - ANSWER✔✔-Distress
An airplane crash or a mass shooting is a faraway country are good examples of what? -
ANSWER✔✔-Neustress
What positive emotions and attitudes can best buffer the ill effects of stress and enhance satisfaction
and genuine happiness? - ANSWER✔✔-compassion and gratitude
What two actions can improve social health? - ANSWER✔✔-Communicating clearly and resolving
conflicts
What factor most affects your physical and psychological health? - ANSWER✔✔-duration of stress
Stressors that are either repeated or prolonged are best referred to as what? - ANSWER✔✔-chronic
stressors
What type of stress occurs when you start a new job? - ANSWER✔✔-life changing events
Socioeconomic status tends to have a what kind of relationship with stress? - ANSWER✔✔-inverse
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, Stress causes heart rate to _____, blood pressure to _________, and the air passages to _________?
- ANSWER✔✔-increase, increase, expand
In times of stress, what does the pituitary gland release? - ANSWER✔✔-endorphins
What are two branches of the autonomic nervous system? - ANSWER✔✔-sympathetic and
paraympatheic
How do stress hormones affect the brain and memory? - ANSWER✔✔-neurons atrophy and die,
loss of memory
During times of stress, what does persistent surges of epinephrine do to the body? - ANSWER✔✔-
damage arteries and increased blood pressure
Greater risk of infections, development of autoimmune disorders, worsening of illnesses such as
allergy and asthma are all possible consequences of what kind of stress? - ANSWER✔✔-chronic
stress
Elevated blood pressure, faster heart rate, increased potential for blood clotting, and great risk of
heart attack or stroke are all effects of what kind of stress? - ANSWER✔✔-episodic stress
During an acute episode of stress, what gastrointestinal symptom is typically the first to be noticed? -
ANSWER✔✔-dry mouth
The stress response affects the what muscles that control the contraction of internal organs and
blood vessels? - ANSWER✔✔-Smooth
What type of headache is typically triggered by stress? - ANSWER✔✔-Tension
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Questions and Answers
What term best describes the negative stress caused by trauma, loss, and other upsetting
occurrences? - ANSWER✔✔-Distress
An airplane crash or a mass shooting is a faraway country are good examples of what? -
ANSWER✔✔-Neustress
What positive emotions and attitudes can best buffer the ill effects of stress and enhance satisfaction
and genuine happiness? - ANSWER✔✔-compassion and gratitude
What two actions can improve social health? - ANSWER✔✔-Communicating clearly and resolving
conflicts
What factor most affects your physical and psychological health? - ANSWER✔✔-duration of stress
Stressors that are either repeated or prolonged are best referred to as what? - ANSWER✔✔-chronic
stressors
What type of stress occurs when you start a new job? - ANSWER✔✔-life changing events
Socioeconomic status tends to have a what kind of relationship with stress? - ANSWER✔✔-inverse
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, Stress causes heart rate to _____, blood pressure to _________, and the air passages to _________?
- ANSWER✔✔-increase, increase, expand
In times of stress, what does the pituitary gland release? - ANSWER✔✔-endorphins
What are two branches of the autonomic nervous system? - ANSWER✔✔-sympathetic and
paraympatheic
How do stress hormones affect the brain and memory? - ANSWER✔✔-neurons atrophy and die,
loss of memory
During times of stress, what does persistent surges of epinephrine do to the body? - ANSWER✔✔-
damage arteries and increased blood pressure
Greater risk of infections, development of autoimmune disorders, worsening of illnesses such as
allergy and asthma are all possible consequences of what kind of stress? - ANSWER✔✔-chronic
stress
Elevated blood pressure, faster heart rate, increased potential for blood clotting, and great risk of
heart attack or stroke are all effects of what kind of stress? - ANSWER✔✔-episodic stress
During an acute episode of stress, what gastrointestinal symptom is typically the first to be noticed? -
ANSWER✔✔-dry mouth
The stress response affects the what muscles that control the contraction of internal organs and
blood vessels? - ANSWER✔✔-Smooth
What type of headache is typically triggered by stress? - ANSWER✔✔-Tension
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