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According to the American College Health Association (ACHA) national surveys, stress ranks as the number-one barrier to academic achievement in
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The term "stress" is used to describe what's going on inside us—thoughts, feelings, physical symptoms—as well as what's happening around us.
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Most contemporary stressors are physical, not emotional or psychological.
False
Stress is defined as anything that has a negative impact on an individual or causes a person "distress."
False
For an Asian American living in California, an Ebola outbreak in a village in Africa would be an example of distress.
True
The term "health" refers to the process of discovering, using, and protecting all the resources within your body, mind, spirit, family, community, and environment.
True
Stress triggers molecular changes within your body that affect your heart, muscles, immune system, bones, blood vessels, skin, lungs, digestive tract, and reproductive organs.
False
In its most recent Stress in America survey, the average stress level as self-reported by Americans was 3.2 (on a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being little or no stress).
True
To evaluate the impact of any stressor, you need to consider three crucial factors: its frequency, intensity, and length of time.
False
In national surveys, the most commonly named sources of everyday stress include deciding on meals and dealing with the weather.
True
The term "homeostasis" describes our bodies as continually striving to maintain a stable and consistent physiological state.
False
The complex, near instantaneous sequence of internal changes that kicks in when you confront any potential danger is commonly referred to as the "fight-or-friend" response.
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A challenge response is a physiological response that strengthens connections between the parts of the brain that suppress fear and enhance learning and positive motivation so as to prepare and enable a person to face a stressor directly.
True
The Yerkes-Dodson Principle states that increasing stress can boost performance in people and animals—but only up to a certain point before it has a negative impact.
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In countries around the globe, lower levels of stress are associated with greater well-being, a phenomenon known as the "stress paradox." [Show Less]