STRESS AND HEALTH CORE EXAMINATION SET 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Personality Types - ✔✔The amount of stress you experience can also be
determined by your basic personality type
✔✔Type A - ✔✔-Ambitious
-Competitive
-Impatient
-Demanding
-Hostile
✔✔Type B - ✔✔-Easygoing
-Uncompetitive
-Patient
-undemanding
-Nonhostile
✔✔Stress Response - ✔✔-The bodys initial reaction to stress
✔✔What does stress response do - ✔✔-Keeps you alert
-Gives you bursts of energy
-Allows you to meet challenges
-Protects you from harm
-Motivates you
-Sharpens your concentration
✔✔General Adaption System - ✔✔-Alarm
-Resistance
-Exhaustion
✔✔What causes alarm - ✔✔-Fight or Flight
✔✔What causes resistance - ✔✔-Reaction to ongoing stress
✔✔What causes exhaustion - ✔✔-Weakening of the immune system
✔✔Alarm Symptoms - ✔✔-Hypothalamus, adrenal gland, and pituitary gland release
hormones
-Breathing becomes rapid and shallow
-liver releases glucose into bloodstream
-heart rate increases
-Pupils dilate
✔✔Resistance path - ✔✔-Body adapts to the initial alarm
, -Either fighting or flight
-Body uses stored energy, hormones, minerals, glucose
✔✔Fight - ✔✔Enhanced ability to take on challenges
✔✔Flight - ✔✔Enhanced physical endurance
✔✔What does the body use during resistance- - ✔✔-Stored energy
-Hormones
-Minerals
-Glucose
✔✔Exhaustion (Burn out) - ✔✔After a period of prolonged stress, exhausting sets in
-Ability to manage stress is very low
✔✔Types of exhaustion - ✔✔-Physical
-Psychological
-Pathological
✔✔Stress can manifest itself as - ✔✔-Physically
-Emotionally
-Cognitively (mentally)
-Behaviorally
✔✔Physical signs of stress - ✔✔-Aches
-Intestinal problems
-nausea
-dizziness
-chest pain
-rapid heartbeat
-frequent cold and flu
✔✔Emotional signs of stress - ✔✔-mood swings
-irritability
-agitation
-feeling overwhelmed
-loneliness
-depression
✔✔Cognitive signs of stress - ✔✔-Loss of memory
-Loss of concentration
-Poor judgement
-Pessimism
-Anxiety
-Constant worry
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Personality Types - ✔✔The amount of stress you experience can also be
determined by your basic personality type
✔✔Type A - ✔✔-Ambitious
-Competitive
-Impatient
-Demanding
-Hostile
✔✔Type B - ✔✔-Easygoing
-Uncompetitive
-Patient
-undemanding
-Nonhostile
✔✔Stress Response - ✔✔-The bodys initial reaction to stress
✔✔What does stress response do - ✔✔-Keeps you alert
-Gives you bursts of energy
-Allows you to meet challenges
-Protects you from harm
-Motivates you
-Sharpens your concentration
✔✔General Adaption System - ✔✔-Alarm
-Resistance
-Exhaustion
✔✔What causes alarm - ✔✔-Fight or Flight
✔✔What causes resistance - ✔✔-Reaction to ongoing stress
✔✔What causes exhaustion - ✔✔-Weakening of the immune system
✔✔Alarm Symptoms - ✔✔-Hypothalamus, adrenal gland, and pituitary gland release
hormones
-Breathing becomes rapid and shallow
-liver releases glucose into bloodstream
-heart rate increases
-Pupils dilate
✔✔Resistance path - ✔✔-Body adapts to the initial alarm
, -Either fighting or flight
-Body uses stored energy, hormones, minerals, glucose
✔✔Fight - ✔✔Enhanced ability to take on challenges
✔✔Flight - ✔✔Enhanced physical endurance
✔✔What does the body use during resistance- - ✔✔-Stored energy
-Hormones
-Minerals
-Glucose
✔✔Exhaustion (Burn out) - ✔✔After a period of prolonged stress, exhausting sets in
-Ability to manage stress is very low
✔✔Types of exhaustion - ✔✔-Physical
-Psychological
-Pathological
✔✔Stress can manifest itself as - ✔✔-Physically
-Emotionally
-Cognitively (mentally)
-Behaviorally
✔✔Physical signs of stress - ✔✔-Aches
-Intestinal problems
-nausea
-dizziness
-chest pain
-rapid heartbeat
-frequent cold and flu
✔✔Emotional signs of stress - ✔✔-mood swings
-irritability
-agitation
-feeling overwhelmed
-loneliness
-depression
✔✔Cognitive signs of stress - ✔✔-Loss of memory
-Loss of concentration
-Poor judgement
-Pessimism
-Anxiety
-Constant worry
