Mental health and wellbeing: Stress

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1. Primary appraisal asks...

  • What consequences can this have?
  • Is this within my coping abilities?
  • Is this stimulus harmful?
  • How can I deal with the situation to get a positive outcome?
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2. GAS stands for...

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

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

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

4. Stress is...

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

5. Secondary appraisal asks...

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

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