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Stress Chapter 4 Short Answers Total points = 20 Please answer the following questions regarding Chapter 4. Your answers to these questions are due by 11:59 PM on Thursday 7-10-14. Questions in italics are ones that you will not find direct answers to in the text (but should read the text to be able to think about and answer the question). BE SURE TO PUT YOUR ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS IN YOUR OWN WORDS! #1. Straub (the author of our text) defines stress as “the process by which a person both perceives and responds to events that are judged to be challenging, or threatening.” When I look at definitions of terms, I like to think about it from the standpoint of a Martian coming down to Earth and hearing that definition – would the definition actually help them know what the concept is. To me, the definition given in your text would not help a Martian actually know what stress is. Below are several other definitions of stress. I believe that by combining various parts of different definitions, one can come to a reasonable definition of stress that would at least give a Martian a shot at understanding what stress is. So, you should try to combine different parts of the definitions (retaining or omitting parts as you see fit) to try to arrive at the best and most escriptive definition of stress that you can. (2 points) Stress is a biological and psychological response experienced on how we encounter a threat that we feel we do not have the resources to deal with. (Depending on the answers, I may share some answers from students with the class as a whole -- anonymously.) • ♥ Stress = response to a discrepancy between the normal, steady state of the person and some changed condition of the environment • ♥ Stress = transaction of the person and the environment that includes the person’s appraisal of the challenges posed by the situation as well as available coping resources, along with the psychological and physiological response to those perceived challenges • ♥ Stress = process by which environmental events threaten or challenge an organism’s well-being and by which that organism responds to this threat • ♥ Stress = negative emotional experience accompanied by predictable biochemical, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral changes that are directed toward altering the stressful event or accommodating to its effects

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