Stress

Question 1

Define primary Stress appraisal

Answer 1

Primary Appraisal: Classifying a potential stressor

as irrelevant, benign-positive, or stressful.

Question 2

Define secondary appraisal for stress

Answer 2

Secondary Appraisal: Evaluating if the organism can

cope with the stress.

Question 3

General adaptation syndrome

Answer 3

Specific stressors do not have specific responses,
they all generate the same general physical stress
response

Question 4

Three stages of general adaptation syndrome

Answer 4

3 stages of stress: Alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
These involve both the sympathetic nervous system
and the endocrine system; release of ACTH leads to increase cortisol