Define the terms stress and stressor. Discuss three factors that influence stress and complicate its study
What will be an ideal response?
Stress is the response to any demand placed on an organism. Those events that create stress are called stressors. An individual's response to a given stressor is influenced by both internal and external factors, making it such that no two people will respond in the same way to the same event and a given person's response may not always be the same. The impact of a stressor is largely determined by coping skills, an individual's perception of the stressor, the number of other stressors the individual is facing, and any existing predisposition to stress vulnerability.
GRADING RUBRIC - Define stress - 2, Define stress - 2, Each factor - 2 (3 @ 2 = 6)
Total: 10
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a. level of spontaneous recovery will increase to the point that extinction is essentially reversed. b. sessions will take less and less time to complete, and fewer and fewer responses will be emitted. c. animal will continue to rest after being returned to the chamber, and very little activity will be observed there during the sessions. d. period of spontaneous recovery will move from the beginning of the session to the middle and then to the latter portion of the session.
In a longitudinal study that followed 200 boys with ADHD into adulthood, researchers found that
a. These men had more social problems compared to those who never had ADHD b. These men had less education and vocational success compared to those who never had ADHD c. These men had more substance use problems compared to those who never had ADHD d. All of the above.
The Enlightenment is also referred to as the:
a. Age of Reason. b. Age of the Romantic. c. Age of Freedom. d. Age of the Human.
Jeffrey is a con artist who swindled his own grandmother out of her life savings. He shows no remorse and claims it was her own fault for being so gullible. Jeffrey exhibits the characteristics of __________ personality disorder
a. schizoid c. avoidant b. schizotypal d. antisocial