11.1-11.2

Question 1

• is the term used to describe the
  physical, emotional, cognitive, and
  behavioral responses to events that are
  appraised as threatening or challenging.

Answer 1

Stress

Question 2

First studied systematically by ___

Answer 2

Hans Selye

Question 3

__ problems include unusual
fatigue, sleeping problems,
frequent colds, and even chest
pains and nausea.

Answer 3

Physical

Question 4

___ problems people under
stress experience anxiety,
depression, fear, and irritability, as
well as anger and frustration.

Answer 4

Emotional

Question 5

___ symptoms of stress
include problems in concentration,
memory, and decision-making, and
people under stress often lose their
sense of humor.

Answer 5

Mental

Question 6

Stress-causing events are called ____;
they can come from within a person or
from an external source and range from
relatively mild to severe.

Answer 6

stressors

Question 7

__ - can range from the deadly
serious (hurricanes, fires, crashes, combat)
to the merely annoying (delays, rude
people, losing one’s car keys).

Answer 7

Stressors

Question 8

Stressors can even be ___, as
when a couple puts off doing their
income tax return,

Answer 8

imaginary

Question 9

— - occurs when people experience
unpleasant stressors,

Answer 9

Distress

Question 10

which results from positive
events that still make demands on a
person to adapt or change. (Caused by
negative events)

Answer 10

eustress,

Question 11

___(1936) originally coined
the term eustress to describe the
stress experienced when positive
events require the body to adapt.

Answer 11

Hans Selye

Question 12

___ - the optimal amount of stress
that people need to promote health and
well-being. (Caused by positive events)

Answer 12

Eustress

Question 13

_____is based on the idea that a certain level of stress,
or arousal, is actually necessary for people to feel
content and function well

Answer 13

The arousal theory,

Question 14

___ may actually
improve our memory.

Answer 14

small amounts of stress

Question 15

___ - an unpredictable event that
happens on a large scale and creates
tremendous amounts of stress and
feelings of threat. Wars, hurricanes, floods,
fires, airplane crashes, and other disasters
are ___.

Answer 15

Catastrophe

Question 16

____
believed that any life event that required
people to change, adapt, or adjust their
lifestyles would result in ___.

Answer 16

Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe (1967); stress

Question 17

Using a sample
of nearly
___ people, Holmes and Rahe devised a scale to measure the amount of stress in
a person’s life by having that person add up the total “life change units” associated with
each major event in their ___

Answer 17

400; Social Readjustment Rating Scale

Question 18

___
assessment that measures the amount
of stress in a person’s life over a 1-year
period resulting from major life events.

Answer 18

Social Readjustment Rating Scale
(SRRS)

Question 19

____
This scale is quite different from
Holmes and Rahe’s original scale because
the stressful events listed and rated
include those that would be more
common or more likely to happen to a
college student.

Answer 19

The College Undergraduate Stress Scale
(CUSS)

Question 20

___
assessment that measures the amount
of stress in a college student’s life over
a 1-year period resulting from major life
events.

Answer 20

College Undergraduate Stress Scale
(CUSS)

Question 21

___ - the bulk of the stress we
experience daily actually comes from little
frustrations, delays, irritations, minor
disagreements, and similar small
aggravations. These daily annoyances are
called __.

Answer 21

hassles

Question 22

___developed a ___that has items such as
“ misplacing or losing things” and “troublesome neighbors.”

Answer 22

Lazarus and Folkman (1984) ; hassles scale