Chapter 4- Kin 150 comprehensive Questions and Answers with Verified Solutions

Chapter 4- Kin 150 comprehensive
Questions and Answers with Verified
Solutions
Question:
What is stress?
Answer:
Relationship between person and environment; appraised as taxing or
exceeding the person's resources and impacting (either positively or
negatively) their achievement of optimal outcomes


Question:
Cognitive Motivational Relational Theory
Answer:
- Stress is a process
- Stress is different for everyone
- Stress for you in one environment may not be stressful in another
- Occurs between a person and their environment
- Situation + reaction = outcome


Question:
What is a stressor
Answer:
Event, forces, or situations seen as stressful

, Question:
What is a stress response?
Answer:
Physiological (blood pressure, adrenaline, heart rate), cognitive (thoughts,
decision making), emotional, and behavioral (skill execution,
communication) reactions to demands Can be positive (ideal level of
stress = high performance) OR negative (too much or little = poor
performance)


Question:
Model of stress
Answer:
stressors, cognitive appraisal, coping, response


Question:
1. acute vs. chronic stressors
2. expected vs. unexpected stressors
3. competitive vs. non competitive
Answer:
3 groups/types of stressors


Question:
Acute stressor
Answer:
Happens quickly