Understanding Stress

What is the effect of keeping stress under control?

• It improves all aspects of your health

• It makes you feel tired

• It causes illness

• It makes you feel sad

What is the body's way of responding to threats called?

• Relaxation response

• Fight-or-flight response

• Rest-and-digest response

• Calm response

What hormone increases the level of sugar in the blood, giving your body extra energy?

• Insulin

• Cortisol

• Adrenaline

• Serotonin

What can too much distress cause?

• Happiness

• Health problems

• Increased energy

• Better concentration

What is a stressor?

• A type of exercise

• A healthy food

• Anything that causes stress

• A type of music

What is the purpose of the fight-or-flight response?

• To help you relax

• To prepare your body to face or escape a threat

• To make you sleepy

• To make you hungry

Which of the following is NOT a function of adrenaline?

• Increases the level of sugar in the blood

• Gives your body extra energy

• Makes you sleepy

• Helps respond to stress

Which of the following is a health issue caused by stress?

• Heart disease

• Better digestion

• Enhanced vision

• Stronger muscles

What is an important way to avoid stress?

• Eating unhealthy

• Time management skills

• Exercising sometimes

• Not having consistent sleep

Match the vocabulary terms with the definition.

• The body's response to real or imagined

• stressor

• The body’s way of responding to threats

• positive stress 

• Stress that can help you reach your goal

• stress

• Negative stress

• distress

• Anything that causes stress

• fight-or-flight-response