3A: Stress (internal & external stressors)

Question 1

Stress

Answer 1

a psychological and physiological experience that occurs when an individual encounters comethin of significance that demands their attentions and/or efforts to cope.

Question 2

Stressor

Answer 2

a stimulus (internal or external) that prompts a stress response.

Question 3

Internal stressor

Answer 3

a stimulus from within a person’s body that prompts the stress response.

Question 4

External stressor

Answer 4

a stimulus from outside of a person’s body that prompts the stress response.

Question 5

Distress

Answer 5

a form of stress characterised by a negative psychological state.

Question 6

Eustress

Answer 6

a form of stress characterised by a positive psychological state.

Question 7

Acute stress

Answer 7

a form of stress characterised by intense psychological and physiological symptoms that are brief in duration.

Question 8

Chronic stress

Answer 8

a form of stress that endures for several months or longer.

Question 9

The fight-or-flight-or-freeze response

Answer 9

an involuntary and sutomatic response to a threat that takes the form of either escaping it, confronting it, or freezing in the face of it.

Question 10

Cortisol

Answer 10

a hormone that is released in times og stress to aid the body in initiating and maintaining heightened arousal.