Exam 3: NSG3130 / NSG 3130 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Fundamental II | Complete Review with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Galen

Exam 3: NSG3130 / NSG 3130 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Fundamental II | Complete Review with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Galen Q: What is the general adaptation syndrome? Answer: A model of the body's stress response, consisting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion Q: When is the general adaptation system evoked? Answer: When the stimulation or stressor is strong enough to activate the autonomic nervous branch of the central nervous system, eliciting an adaptive response. Q: The GAS notes that Answer: the body responds in the same way to any demand whether it be physical, emotional, pleasant, or unpleasant. Q: Distress Answer: negative stress, can cause physical illness and emotional dysfunction. Q: Eustress Answer: positive stress, which is associated with effective coping and adaptation. essential for normal growth and development. Q: What are the three stages of the GAS? Answer: alarm, resistance, exhaustion Q: what happens in the alarm stage of GAS? Answer: the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and autonomic nervous system are activated, successfully triggering responses in the sympathetic nervous system and the endocrine, and immune systems. Q: What happens in the resistance stage of GAS? Answer: the body attempts to adapt to the stressor, the body begins to repair damage and restore resources. Q: what happens in the exhaustion phase of GAS? Answer: The body becomes overwhelmed and there are no resources left to facilitate recovery. This can cause disease states or even death. Q: What is the local adaptation syndrome? Answer: A localized response of the body to stress. It involves only a specific body part (such as a tissue or a organ) instead of the whole body. Maybe traumatic or pathologic. Primarily homeostatic short-term adaptive response. Q: Local adaptation syndrome can manifest as what? Answer: inflammation, reflexive response to pain, or hypoxia Q: The effects of local adaptation syndrome are most notably... Answer: manifested by activities in the immune system. Q: What is allostasis? Answer: the process by which the body responds to stressors in order to regain homeostasis Q: allostatic responses such as fight or flight should... Answer: terminate when no longer needed, thus reducing the allostatic load. Q: What is stress appraisal Answer: the unconscious process by which a person interprets a stressor as a threat or a challenge Q: stress appraisal theory stages Answer: 1. Threat assessment - individual measures what is at stake in the stressful encounter. 2. Coping options are evaluated Q: Stage one and two of stress appraisal occur Answer: almost simultaneously Q: What is a sense of coherence? Answer: a characteristic that is composed of three elements: (1) comprehensibility (ability to grasp cognitively constantly changing life events and predict their future course), (2) meaningfulness (life makes sense emotionally, problems are seen as challenges rather than burdens), and (3) manageability (ability to take advantage of available resources to handle life events). Q: Comprehensible means that the demands of the internal and external environments are understanable, and predictable Q: manageable means