Stress - (Module 43 and 44)

Question 1

General Adaptation Syndrome -3 stages (Hans Selye)

Answer 1

Alarm stage - body prepares for attack

Resistance stage - body uses up a lot of energy

Exhaustion - Health problems

Question 2

Tend and Befriend Response

Answer 2

Reaction to stress that creates social networks that provide protection.

Happens especially in women triggered by the hormone oxytocin.

Question 3

Psychophysiological Illness

Answer 3

Stress-related physical illness

Question 4

Psychoneuroimmunology

Answer 4

Study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes affect the immune system

Question 5

Lymphocytes

Answer 5

White blood cells in the immune system

B lymphocytes - fight bacterial infections

T lymphocytes - attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances

During stress, energy is mobilized away from the immune system

Question 6

Coronary Heart Disease

Answer 6

Clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle

Question 7

Type A Personality

Answer 7

Competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people

More likely to develop coronary heart disease

Question 8

Type B Personality

Answer 8

Easy going, relaxed