Apply Knowledge And Skills- Ch.2 ( B)

Question 1

How do the GAS and the transactional model of stress and coping differ

Answer 1

GAS is the body’s typical response pattern in terms of resistance to stress over time. However, transactional model of stress and coping proposes experiences are a transaction between individual and environmental

Question 2

What is a psychosomatic illness

Answer 2

Physiological symptoms resulting from psychological factors

Question 3

Why is cortisol released into the bloodstream?

Answer 3

Cortisol allows us to appropriately respond to threat by activating FFF

Question 4

What happens if there is excess cortisol?

Answer 4

Too much blood sugar and disturbed sleep pattern

Question 5

Describe the Freeze response

Answer 5

Immobilises us by conserving our energy and directing it only to the bodies core on what we need for basic survival until the danger passes

Question 6

Name 2 limitations of the Lazarus and folkmans transactional model of stress and coping

Answer 6

• open to varying results

* primary and secondary appraisal may act simultaneously