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6. Seeing stress as a combination of stimulus and response, stress responses are evoked by what?

  • When a stimulus is interpreted as harmful and outside one's coping abilities
  • When there is a perceived imbalance between situational demands and personal resources
  • When there is increased cortisol hormone levels, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration rate, perspiration
  • When demands are made by the internal or external environment that upset balance

7. Secondary appraisal asks...

  • Is this a threat or challenge?
  • Is this stimulus harmful?
  • Is this within my coping abilities?
  • What consequences can this have?

8. Repressive coping can be...

  • Helpful
  • Harmful
  • Effective
  • Dangerous

9. Stress is...

  • A stimulus
  • All of these
  • A response
  • A combination of stimulus and response

10. GAS stands for...

  • Generalised adaption to stress
  • General adoption of stress
  • General adaption to stress
  • General anxiety symptoms

11. Which is involved in the fight or flight response?

  • Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenalin axis
  • Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal axis
  • Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Amygdala axis
  • Alarm-Resistance-Exhaustion

12. What is eustress?

  • A stressor
  • Intense distress
  • Positive stress
  • Negative stress