Stress Health and Coping

Question 1

alarm stage

Answer 1

Your body’s sympathetic nervous system goes into overdrive, including increased heart rate, and a release of stress hormones into the bloodstream.

Question 2

resistance stage

Answer 2

Your body attempts to endure the stress, and minimize its effects. However, stress hormones continue to circulate in your bloodstream, notably epinephrine and cortisol, potentially causing the body’s immune system to weaken from this heightened level of activation.

Question 3

exhaustion stage

Answer 3

In the exhaustion stage, (not always experienced), if the stress-inducing stimuli continue to remain, the body will react by sickness, or possibly death. The body’s internal resources for dealing with the stressors have been exhausted.

Question 4

eustress

Answer 4

Eustress refers to stress that leads to a positive response. It can refer to any type of beneficial stress. It tends to be short-term and often feels exciting.

Question 5

subjective well-being

Answer 5

Refers to how people experience and evaluate their lives and specific domains and activities in their lives. It encompasses feeling both of happiness and of overall sense of life satisfaction.

Question 6

Adaptation-Level Principle

Answer 6

According to Myers, we gauge our happiness in relation to our prior experiences, which is known as the adaptation-level principle. It is the tendency people have to quickly adapt to new situation, until that situation becomes the norm. Once the new situation is normal, another new experience is needed.

Question 7

Relative Deprivation Theory

Answer 7

The feeling of relative deprivation is activated when we receive less than what we expected to receive, particularly if others in similar circumstances received what we did not, and if we believe that the circumstances are largely beyond our control. On the other hand, if we compare ourselves to people under similar circumstances who didn’t receive the benefits that we have received, this could have a positive impact on our satisfaction and well-being.

Question 8

optimists

Answer 8

They tend to attribute their successes to their own abilities, and their failures either to things beyond the control, or things that are within their control that thy can change.