Exam 4: Personal Stress Management

Which relaxation technique works by intentionally increasing and then decreasing tension in the muscles?​ 

Victoria frequently relives the day a tornado destroyed her home.She is likely experiencing ____. 

____________________,produced by the pituitary gland,fine-tunes the brain's social network,increases empathy,and fosters the willingness to help and support others.

The "eu" in eustress means _____.

Which term applies to a sense of being in control of one's life?​ 

When confronted with a stressor,the body's ____ system practically shuts down. 

When stressed,some people put on "belly," or ___________________fat,deposited deep within the central abdominal area of the body.

Discuss three of the five factors that have proved to help people thrive in the face of adversity.

A(n)____________________ is a specific or nonspecific response agent or situation that causes a stress response in the body.

Match the items. -obtaining information about some physiological activity occurring in the body

The longer the stress,the more the ____ system shifts from potentially adaptive changes to potentially harmful ones. 

Which students are most susceptible to test stress? 

Stressors that are ongoing with no clear end point are said to be ____________________.

Stress triggers ____ changes throughout the body. 

Which relaxation technique is associated with the brain's production of alpha waves?​ 

Driver aggression,which contributes to half of all motor vehicle accidents,is known as _____. 

Increasing stress can boost performance-but only up to a certain point.This is at the heart of which theory of stress?​ 

Which theory of stress did Richard Lazarus develop? 

Match the items. -creating mental pictures to calm down​

An estimated 14.9 million Americans practice ____,which has been defined as a union of mind,body,and spirit.