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STUDENT ASSESSMENT SAQ SHEET
SUBJECT: Biology / Human Physiology / Psychology / Social Work
UNIT: Practical Investigation / Psychological Investigation /
Experimental Research in Psychology
TOPIC: Stress, research methods, data analysis
LEVEL: 3
YOUR NAME:
How to use this document
You will use this document to record your answers to the Self Assessment Questions
(SAQs) in the topic you have just studied.
You should complete the table in Part 1, and the comment box in Part 2. You may add or
delete rows as appropriate when you are completing the table in Part 1.
Once completed, please upload an electronic copy of this document at your Learner
Account (for marking, and to be checked for plagiarism). Please notify your tutor by email
when you have uploaded this document at your Learner Account.
Your tutor will then provide the Answers to SAQs for you to mark your answers, using this
sheet.
Once you have completed and marked all of the SAQ answers for the topics in a particular
unit, your tutor will provide the deadline for your assessment.
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PART 1: SAQ answers
Fill in the following table by writing out each Self Assessment Question, and then answering
it in your own words.
When you have completed all of the SAQs in the topic, mark your work using the exemplar
SAQ answers that your tutor will provide.
Before you send your tutor your SAQ answers, please complete Part 2: Comments.
Mark your
answer by
SAQ Questions and Answers deleting
the tick or
the cross
SAQ 1 Question:
a) Which model investigates what is occurring within the
person?
b) Which model's origins are from physics?
c) Which model is interested in the interaction between the
person and the environment?
Your answer:
a) Stimulus response (Psychological) model as it
investigates biological changes within someone.
b) Engineering model as it links human stress to material
stress in Hooke’s law of elasticity.
c) Interactional (Transactional) model as it focuses on
imbalanced interactions between people and their
environment.
SAQ 2 Question:
Why do you think that the stress response is associated with
flight/fight responses?
Your answer:
The difficulty to deal with stress would be like the difficulty to
staying alive from wild animals in neolithic times, hence why
the body will experience physiological changes to cope with
the stressful situation. A stress response would have been
necessary to survive in the wild, leading to the body being
prepared to run or fight. Some stressors are associated with
needing to act for example if we are threatened – the fight or
flight response mobilises the bodies resources so that we are
able to do this by either confronting the source of stress or
running away from it. However, this response is often not
appropriate for many modern stressors.
SAQ 3 Question:
Why do we need high levels of glucose when we are faced
with a stressor?
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Your answer:
Higher glucose levels allow for a greater energy supply to be
more alert when dealing with a stressor. More blood glucose
means more ATP can be produced, so muscles will have more
energy for movement. High levels of glucose are needed to
increase the rate of respiration in cells – so more energy is
produced to enable the actions of fight or flight.
SAQ 4 Question:
a) What are stressors?
b) Stressors can be caused by internal factors! True or false.
c) What are social stressors?
d) What is the life event scale?
Your answer:
a) Stimuli that trigger stress.
b) True. Puberty can cause stress.
c) Social stressors are items within our social world that
cause us to experience stress. They include items such
as friends, family, job, home life and social interactions.
d) The life event scale (developed by Holmes and Rahé) is
a scale that determines how much adaptation and
coping is required to deal which life changes.
SAQ 5 Question:
a. Name two biological effects of stress
b. Name two psychological effects of stress
c. Outline the effect of very high levels of stress (arousal) on
performance)
Your answer:
a. Heart rate and blood pressure rises. Increased glucose
secretion from the liver. Weakened immune system.
b. Anxiety. Anger.
c. The increased heart rate and blood flow to muscles
would allow people to move and run at their top speed.
Very high levels of stress lead to poorer performance
SAQ 6 Question:
Explain from your personal experience why social media use
may include threat, uncontrollability, and negative social
evaluation
Your answer:
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STUDENT ASSESSMENT SAQ SHEET
SUBJECT: Biology / Human Physiology / Psychology / Social Work
UNIT: Practical Investigation / Psychological Investigation /
Experimental Research in Psychology
TOPIC: Stress, research methods, data analysis
LEVEL: 3
YOUR NAME:
How to use this document
You will use this document to record your answers to the Self Assessment Questions
(SAQs) in the topic you have just studied.
You should complete the table in Part 1, and the comment box in Part 2. You may add or
delete rows as appropriate when you are completing the table in Part 1.
Once completed, please upload an electronic copy of this document at your Learner
Account (for marking, and to be checked for plagiarism). Please notify your tutor by email
when you have uploaded this document at your Learner Account.
Your tutor will then provide the Answers to SAQs for you to mark your answers, using this
sheet.
Once you have completed and marked all of the SAQ answers for the topics in a particular
unit, your tutor will provide the deadline for your assessment.
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,STUDENT ASSESSMENT SAQ SHEET
PART 1: SAQ answers
Fill in the following table by writing out each Self Assessment Question, and then answering
it in your own words.
When you have completed all of the SAQs in the topic, mark your work using the exemplar
SAQ answers that your tutor will provide.
Before you send your tutor your SAQ answers, please complete Part 2: Comments.
Mark your
answer by
SAQ Questions and Answers deleting
the tick or
the cross
SAQ 1 Question:
a) Which model investigates what is occurring within the
person?
b) Which model's origins are from physics?
c) Which model is interested in the interaction between the
person and the environment?
Your answer:
a) Stimulus response (Psychological) model as it
investigates biological changes within someone.
b) Engineering model as it links human stress to material
stress in Hooke’s law of elasticity.
c) Interactional (Transactional) model as it focuses on
imbalanced interactions between people and their
environment.
SAQ 2 Question:
Why do you think that the stress response is associated with
flight/fight responses?
Your answer:
The difficulty to deal with stress would be like the difficulty to
staying alive from wild animals in neolithic times, hence why
the body will experience physiological changes to cope with
the stressful situation. A stress response would have been
necessary to survive in the wild, leading to the body being
prepared to run or fight. Some stressors are associated with
needing to act for example if we are threatened – the fight or
flight response mobilises the bodies resources so that we are
able to do this by either confronting the source of stress or
running away from it. However, this response is often not
appropriate for many modern stressors.
SAQ 3 Question:
Why do we need high levels of glucose when we are faced
with a stressor?
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Your answer:
Higher glucose levels allow for a greater energy supply to be
more alert when dealing with a stressor. More blood glucose
means more ATP can be produced, so muscles will have more
energy for movement. High levels of glucose are needed to
increase the rate of respiration in cells – so more energy is
produced to enable the actions of fight or flight.
SAQ 4 Question:
a) What are stressors?
b) Stressors can be caused by internal factors! True or false.
c) What are social stressors?
d) What is the life event scale?
Your answer:
a) Stimuli that trigger stress.
b) True. Puberty can cause stress.
c) Social stressors are items within our social world that
cause us to experience stress. They include items such
as friends, family, job, home life and social interactions.
d) The life event scale (developed by Holmes and Rahé) is
a scale that determines how much adaptation and
coping is required to deal which life changes.
SAQ 5 Question:
a. Name two biological effects of stress
b. Name two psychological effects of stress
c. Outline the effect of very high levels of stress (arousal) on
performance)
Your answer:
a. Heart rate and blood pressure rises. Increased glucose
secretion from the liver. Weakened immune system.
b. Anxiety. Anger.
c. The increased heart rate and blood flow to muscles
would allow people to move and run at their top speed.
Very high levels of stress lead to poorer performance
SAQ 6 Question:
Explain from your personal experience why social media use
may include threat, uncontrollability, and negative social
evaluation
Your answer:
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