How does psychological stress affect health in early adulthood?
What will be an ideal response?
Psychological stress is measured in terms of adverse social conditions, traumatic experiences, negative life events, or daily hassles. It is related to a wide variety of unfavorable health outcomes—both unhealthy behaviors and clear physical consequences. Chronic stress is linked to overweight and obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and atherosclerosis. And in susceptible individuals, acute stress can trigger cardiac events, including heart-beat rhythm abnormalities and heart attacks. Stress interferes with immune system functioning, a link that may underlie its relationship to several forms of cancer. And by reducing digestive activity as blood flows to the brain, heart, and extremities, stress can cause gastrointestinal difficulties, including constipation, diarrhea, colitis, and ulcers. The many challenging tasks of early adulthood make it a particularly stressful time of life. Young adults more often report depressive feelings than middle-aged people, many of whom have attained vocational success and financial security and are enjoying more free time as parenting responsibilities decline. Also, middle-aged and older adults are better than young adults at coping with stress. Because of their longer life experience and greater sense of personal control over their lives, they are more likely to engage in problem-centered coping when stressful conditions can be changed and emotion-centered coping when nothing can be done.
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a. analytical b. creative c. practical d. associative
After the neural signals from each visual field separate at the optic chiasm, the majority of the neurons from the optic nerve travel to the:
a. superior colliculus, while 10% travel to the lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus b. left visual cortex, while 10% travel to the right visual cortex c. lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus, while 10% travel to the superior colliculus d. right visual cortex, while 10% travel to the left visual cortex
Which of the following is NOT one of the textbook's suggestions for avoiding needless frustrations?
a. Try to identify the source of your frustration. b. Try to combine the microstressors in your life in order to deal effectively with them. c. Determine whether the source of the frustration can be changed. d. Determine if the effort necessary to change a source of frustration is worth it.
Emerging adults usually exhibit more mature reasoning ability than adolescents when a topic is
emotionally charged. age-related. political in nature. objectively stated.