AQA A AS Psychology: Stress overview.

A quiz regarding the Stress topic of the AS course.

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The Sympathomedullary Pathway is related to;
Acute Stress
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An increased Heart Rate, Tense Muscles, and Sweating are all 'symptoms' of which response?
The Flight or Flight Response.
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What is the process of the Sympathomedullary Pathway?
Hypothalmus triggers the Sympathetic Branch of the ANS, which stimulates the Adrenal Medulla, which releases Adrenaline and Nor-Adrenaline.
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What does ANS stand for?
Autonomic Nervous System
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What is the process of the Pituitary-Adrenal System,
Hypothalmus triggers the release of CRH, which stimulates the Anterior Pituitary Gland, which releases ACTH, which stimulates the Adrenal Cortex, which releases Corticosteroids.
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The 3 Stage Response is;
Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion.
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Long Term Stress can cause Physical Illness, Who studied the effects of Stress on Medical Students by Blood Samples?
Kiecolt-Glaser
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What was the the conclusion derived from the blood samples?
Stress decreases the rate of Natural Killer Cells, weakening the Immune System.
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Who devised the SRRS?
Holmes and Rahe
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Each Life Event in the SRRS was ranked in terms of what?
Life Change Units
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The study showed X correlation between illness and the score of the SRRS.
X = Positive
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Find the Daily Hassle.
Dog peeing on carpet.
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Stress in the Workplace comes from 5 key areas, Social Relationships, Work Pressures, The Physical Environment, Stresses linked to our role, and what else?
Lack of Control
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The SRRS in itself is not a good measurement because;
It doesn't consider daily hassles.
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Johannson studied Stress in the Workplace, for his study, he sampled;
14 woodworkers and 10 cleaners.
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The study showed that those with the harder, more stressful, repetitive job had;
More time off work
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The other is simply, taking your mind off things, this is;
Emotion
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Another technique is Kobasa's Hardiness Training, this also involves 3 stages, what are they?
Focussing, Reliving Stressful encounters and Self-Improvement.
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The idea is that a change in the way information is cognitively processed will result in a change of..
behaviour
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Friedman and Rosenmann studied Type A personality on 3000, 39-59 year old American Males. This is bad because;
We cannot generalise.
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Kobasa identified Hardiness, Hardy personalities are very committed in what they do, they are optimists and...
Have control over their life.
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Hardy people are said to have an;
Internal Locus of Control
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The study showed that 70% of the Type A candidates had developed a Heart Condition known as CHD, Whilst this proves that a Type A personality is bad, the study itself has its flaws because;
Not all Type A personalities got CHD, and not all Type B personalities avoided it.
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Psychological Techniques can also be in the form of Stress Inoculation Training, who created it?
Meichenbaum
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What do Benzodiazepines do?
Slow down the Central Nervous System by increasing the bodies reaction towards the hormone: GABA.
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This form of training is in 3 stages, what are they?
Conceptualisation, Skill Acquisition and Application.
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In RET therapy, Ellis suggested the ABC model, the A being the 'activating event', the B being 'belief' and the C being what?
Consequence
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An increased Heart Rate, Tense Muscles, and Sweating are all 'symptoms' of which response?

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The Flight or Flight Response.

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What is the process of the Sympathomedullary Pathway?

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What does ANS stand for?

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What is the process of the Pituitary-Adrenal System,

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Lottiiee

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this is really helpful!

Rachel

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Impressive :) I now see where I really need to work on :) thank you, it was really helpful!! :)

Melissa Jackson

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You're most welcome :)

Julie Mellon

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Very helpful - thanks!

Owen Watson

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Thanks a lot! :)

Katie

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WOW! Thank you - this is really helpful.

Emily Ebbutt

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This is really helpful in showing me what areas I still need to revise. Thanks! :)

Lauren

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Really good!

(Some of the responses made me giggle) XD 

Emma-Leigh Bevington

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Really helpful, especially because it cover's most of the studies.

thanks

Eve

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Thanks! Very helpful and I laughed at some of the responses too haha 

Annabel

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Thanks so much, i have so much revision to do for my resit!

Rebecca Cutts

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Really liked some of the potential answers for the questions

Sabrina

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This is really helpful it highlighted what topics i needed to revise the most, tahnkyou !

Abbie

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helpful and pretty funny too :L **

Zoe Cooper

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very good quiz, for the june 2012 spec you dont need to know about problem-focused and emotion-focused, so i hadn't learnt it but i still got 100% first try so thank you!

MrsMacLean

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This is really good thanks! 

alexmartine32

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this is radical dude I did it whilst getting head of my bird

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