Health and Stress Management Exam #1 with Complete Solutions

Health and Stress Management Exam #1 with Complete Solutions CHP 1: Definition of Stress - ANSWER ️️ A perceived threat (real or imagined) to our mind, body, spirit, or emotions Holistic medicine: - 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 - ANSWER ️️ Twentieth- century Harvard physiologist who conined the term "flight for fight" Stress reaction - ANSWER ️️ the body's initial (central nervous system) reaction to perceive threat. Freeze response - 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 - 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? - ANSWER ️️ Anger or aggression Flight is triggered by? - ANSWER ️️ Fear, PTSD's experience the "freeze" response where the body tries to do both Stage 1 of fight or flight response? - ANSWER ️️ Stimuli from one or more of the five senses are sent to the brain (scream, smell of fire, taste of poison, pass