Week 11 - Coping With Stress

Question 1

The more ____ a stressor is, the more ____ we have over the stressor (even only feeling it), the less intense we can experience it

Answer 1

Predictable, control

Question 2

A big factor that determines how you cope with stress depends on the strength of ____ ____ system.

Answer 2

Social support

Question 3

____ is a psychological disease that can be conceived as a failure to cope with stress, and can be caused by increased ____ levels (chronic elevated level)

Answer 3

Depression; glucocorticoid

Question 4

2 hypotheses for how SSRIs work
1: ____ auto-receptors on serotonin neurons which ____ serotonin signaling
2: ____ adult hippocampal ____

Answer 4

1: reducing; increasing
2: increasing; neurogenesis

Question 5

Outlets of frustration: (3)

Answer 5

Aggression (through displaced aggression or sports), meditation, exercise