stress and illness

Mandisa is under an extreme amount of stress. She is battling with her ex-husband about money and their children. In this time of stress, Mandisa turns to her friends for support and spends as much time with her children as possible. Taylor and colleagues would say that Mandisa is demonstrating a _____response to stress.

tend or befriend

Roger has a great deal on his plate. He works full time, he also has a part-time job, and has a new consulting company in response to his son's special needs. He seems to be coping with everything quite well for the moment anyway. In Selye's general adaptation syndrome, Roger is in Phase:

2, in a state of resistance

Maya owes the credit card company $20,000, her adjustable-rate mortgage has just gone up, and she has been out of work for 3 months. Her husband of 15 years came home today to tell her he is having an affair and wants a divorce. With that news, she collapsed and had to be taken to the emergency room. In Selye's general adaptation syndrome, Maya is in Phase:

3, in a state of exhaustion

Donald takes 15-minute lunch breaks, goes to the bathroom only when he can no longer hold it anymore, has to have his cell phone with him at all times, checks his text messages the moment he wakes up, and puts in 14-hour days at the office. Donald is a Type _____personality.

A

Jennifer was driving her car to school when it broke down. Which statement is true? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.

Jennifer's feelings of frustration are a stress reaction.

Jane and Sue leave a building and see a dog running toward them. Jane assumes that the dog wants to play. Sue assumes the dog is going to attack. It is MOST likely that:

Sue's stress reaction will be more negative than Jane's.

Abdul has just discovered his term paper is due tomorrow when he thought it was due next week. According to Hans Selye, Abdul will likely be experiencing the ______stage of the general adaptation syndrome

alarm

The interdisciplinary field of _____integrates behavioral and medical knowledge, and applies this knowledge to health and disease.

behavioral medicine

Because Type A people tend to be more abrasive and irritable, this combined with high cholesterol can:

cause altered heart rhythms that can lead to a heart attack.

One is MOST susceptible to illness during the _____phase of the general adaptation syndrome.

exhaustion

The field that studies mind-body interactions is called:

psychoneuroimmunology