Question 1

Describe the three levels of people's response to stress.

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Question 2

Describe the four major types of stress, and provide an example of each.

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Question 3

Describe the evidence linking personality and emotional factors to coronary heart disease.

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Question 4

What are your favorite or habitual techniques for coping with stress? Explain how your techniques are examples of the categories of coping from this chapter's Personal Application (reappraisal, humor, emotional release, relaxation, lessening physiological vulnerability). Do you use any methods that don't seem to fit into any of these categories?

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Question 5

Discuss how stress affects immune functioning and how social support and personality can moderate the impact of stress.

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Question 6

Describe two common relatively unhealthy coping responses and then discuss defensive and constructive coping and whether they are considered healthy or unhealthy coping responses. ​

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Question 7

Many people believe that suicide represents the ultimate failure to cope with life's stresses. Others feel that suicide is, itself, a coping response. What do you think? Is one type of stress more likely to lead to suicide than others?

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Question 8

Explain how the body responds to stress physiologically by describing the three stages of the general adaptation syndrome.

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Question 9

Describe several recent occasions when you've experienced stress. For each case, identify the type(s) of stress you experienced and whatever emotional, physiological, and\or behavioral responses to stress you had.

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Question 10

What is stress, what impact do minor stressors have on our lives, and how accurate are our appraisals of stress?

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Question 11

Discuss the two major pathways along which the brain sends signals to the endocrine system in response to stress. ​

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Quiz 13: Stress, Coping, and Health