29 - Stress and Adaption

Question 1

Stress

Answer 1

a stimulus or a process or a response.

Question 2

Stressor

Answer 2

is the event that causes the stress.

Question 3

Adaptation

Answer 3

is the change to responses to stress over time.

Question 4

Primary appraisal

Answer 4

Identification (evaluating an event for its personal meaning)

Question 5

Secondary appraisal

Answer 5

Coping (active process of managing taxing processes)

Question 6

Developmental crises

Answer 6

For example, can be related to mastering developmental tasks as an individual or family

Question 7

Situational crises

Answer 7

For example, natural disaster, the end of an intimate relationship, loss of work

Question 8

Glucocorticoids

Answer 8

anti-inflammatory agents

Question 9

Distress

Answer 9

Damaging stress

Question 10

Eustress

Answer 10

Stress that protects health

-motivating energy (happiness/hopefulness)

Question 11

Trauma

Answer 11

physical damage to body or felling of fear/stress after traumatizing event

Question 12

Acute stress disorder

Answer 12

Caused by exposure to one or more traumatic events and lasts up to 1 month after a traumatic event; the reaction is one of intense fear, helplessness, or horror

Flashbacks
Avoidance of memory of trauma
Hyperarousal
Sleep disturbance, irritability, anger

Question 13

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Answer 13

Symptoms and trigger are similar to those of an acute stress disorder, but symptoms are more persistent (longer than 1 month)

Question 14

Situational factors

Answer 14

Arise from job changes, illness, caregiver stress

Question 15

Maturational factors

Answer 15

Vary with life stages

Question 16

Sociocultural factors

Answer 16

Environmental and social stressors perceived by children, adolescents, and adults