Understanding Stress and Stressors

What is the process by which we perceive and respond to circumstances that we view as challenging?

• Stress

• Eustress

• Distress

• Stressor

What term describes experiences that threaten homeostasis?

• Stress

• Stressor

• Eustress

• Distress

Which type of stressor includes a wide range of social and interpersonal experiences that threaten homeostasis?

• Physical Stressors

• Psychological Stressors

• Eustress

• Distress

What is the negative stress response that results from being overwhelmed by demands or perceived threats?

• Eustress

• Stressor

• Distress

• Physical Stressors

What is the positive stress response involving optimal levels of stimulation?

• Distress

• Eustress

• Stressor

• Physical Stressors

What is the main difference between acute and chronic stress?

• Acute stress is experienced for a long period of time, while chronic stress is short-term.

• Acute stress has clear endpoints, while chronic stress does not.

• Chronic stress is always beneficial, while acute stress is harmful.

• Acute stress is related to physical health, while chronic stress is related to mental health.

Who defined stress as "physical and psychological disturbances" and coined the term "fight or flight"?

• Walter Cannon

• Hans Selye

• Richard Lazarus

• Modern Researchers

In 1956, who defined stress as a "stimulus that produces a physiological response"?

• Hans Selye

• Walter Cannon

• Richard Lazarus

• Modern Researchers

According to Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman, when does stress occur?

• When a person determines they do not have the personal/social resources to respond to a perceived threat

• When there is a physiological response to a stimulus

• When there are physical and psychological disturbances

• When emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological changes occur

How do modern researchers define stress?

• As leading to a series of emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological changes

• As a stimulus that produces a physiological response

• As physical and psychological disturbances

• As occurring when resources are insufficient to respond to a threat