CHAPTER 13

Chapter 13

The Nature of Stress

1. Define stress and discuss the relationship between the severity of stress and its effects.

2. Describe the key processes and factors in our appraisals of stress.

3. Describe the four principal types of stress discussed in the text.

4. Identify the three basic types of conflict and discuss which types are most troublesome.

5. Summarize evidence on life change as a form of stress.

6. Identify some common emotional responses to stress and discuss the effects of emotional arousal.

7. Describe the fight-or-flight response and the three stages of the

8. Discuss the two major pathways along which the brain sends signals tothe endocrine system in response to stress.

9. Describe and evaluate aggression, giving up, and self-indulgence as behavioral responses to stress.

10. Discuss defensive coping and constructive coping as mechanisms for dealing with stress.

11. Discuss the effects of stress on task performance, including the burnout syndrome.

12. Discuss posttraumatic stress disorder and other psychological problems and disorders that may result from stress.

13. Describe the Type A behavior pattern and summarize the evidence linking it to coronary heart disease.

14. Discuss and evaluate other evidence linking stress to immunosuppression and a variety of physical illnesses.

15. Describe the Featured Study on stress and the common cold.

16. Discuss how social support, hardiness, optimism, and autonomic reactivity moderate individual differences in stress tolerance.

17. Discuss the negative impact of smoking, poor nutrition, lack of exercise, and alcohol and drug use on physical health.

18. Discuss the relationship between lifestyle factors and AIDS.

19. Explain how health-impairing lifestyles develop.

20. Discuss individual differences in willingness to seek medical treatment and to comply with medical advice.

21. Explain how this chapter highlighted two of the text's unifying themes.

22. Summarize Albert Ellis's ideas about controlling one's emotions.

23. Summarize other approaches to coping and stress management discussed in the Application.

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