Sources of Stress

Question 1

What is stress?

Answer 1

a psychological and physical response to sources of tension (stressors) that challenge a person’s ability to cope

Question 2

What is a stressor?

Answer 2

stimulus or something that causes stress

Question 3

What is eustress?

Answer 3

good stress

- positive psychological response to a stressor

Question 4

What is distress?

Answer 4

bad stress

- negative psychological response to a stressor

Question 5

What ns controls stress?

Answer 5

sympathetic ns

Question 6

What are daily pressures?

Answer 6

minor troubles that arise everyday

- late for work + losing your keys

Question 7

Life events are

Answer 7

events that force us to adapt to new circumstances

- wedding + changing schools

Question 8

What is acculturative stress

Answer 8

stress that people experience when trying to fit in to a new culture
- immigration

Question 9

What is major stress?

Answer 9

event that causes extraordinary stress and is disturbing for anyone who experiences it
- acts of violence

Question 10

Catastrophes are

Answer 10

unpredictable event that causes widespread suffering

- natural disasters