PSY 1010 Chapter 14: Stress, Lifestyle, & Health

Ashaela is Black, and she is attending a college with a predominately White population. She is the only Black student in several of her classes; last week in her psychology class, another student muttered a racist slur as she passed Ashaela's desk. Ashaela is attempting to cope by talking to her parents about her heritage and joining the Black Student Union on campus. This exemplifies the ________ strategy for coping with racism.

Noticing that you have difficulty concentrating during and after periods of prolonged stress exemplifies how stress can have a negative ________ impact.

Alma has a serious disease in which the airways of her respiratory system become obstructed, leading to great difficulty expelling air from the lungs. Which disease does Alma have?

Over the past few years, research suggests that stress levels in the United States have ________.

A stressor is likely to be appraised as a threat when someone ________.

When did the term stress enter scientific literature?

Who developed biofeedback as a technique to treat combat stress?

What is a major criticism of both the stimulus- and response-based definitions of stress?

What should be changed to make the following sentence true? In high-stress humans, exercise has been shown to prevent telomere lengthening.

In Hans Selye's rat study, rats that were exposed to stressors over a long period of time showed signs of ________.