Stress

Question 0

What are 2 things people claim to be the most stressful in life?

Answer 0

1. major changes in life

2. major changes in social relationship

Question 1

what is the term for things that elicit stress?

Answer 1

stressors

Question 2

What does the holmes-rahe scale measure and what do the measurements have in common?

Answer 2

it ranks order of things in the environment that people find most stressful to least stressful on a scale. Most of the top stress inducing things are social changed and changes involving a significant other

Question 3

how can stress be described as a transaction?

Answer 3

stress is a relationship between you and your environment. Therefore, different people respond to the same stimulus in different ways .., e.g. social isolation

Question 4

what are the two steps for identifying if something is stressful or not?

Answer 4

1. primary appraisal —> identifying stimulus or environmental change
2. secondary appraisal —> finding out how to deal with the change in the environment

Question 5

what does the transactional model of stress say about people’s behaviour when under stress?

Answer 5

when people have a way with dealing with stress (even if that way is not exercised) they perform better than people who dont have a way of dealing with stress.

• also shows that its not the stressor that gives us stress, its whether or not we have a way of dealing with the stressor that gives us stress