Chapter 1

Statistics provided by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine suggest that what percentage of Americans (adults and children) use various forms of integrative (mind-body-spirit) therapies?

50%

True or false, a paradigm shift means adopting Eastern philosophies in the Western culture and society

false

True or false, acute stress is not as intense as chronic stress, initially

false

True or false, experts agree that stress can best be defined as the "rate of wear and tear on the body"

false

Which stressor would be classified as a bioecological influence?

inadequate sunlight

Which of the following characteristics is not typically experienced in fight-or-flight response?

increased gastric movement

There are many physiological cycles affected by environmental stressors, which of the following cycles occurs less than once in a 24-hour period?

infradian cycles

According to comprehensive studies by the APA in 2014 and 2015, which demographic suffers from the most stress?

millennials

Secondary Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) refers to:

stress experienced by family members of those with PTSD

The word "health" really means "to be whole"

true