Discuss the process of keeping a stress log. How can it help you respond to your stressors?
What will be an ideal response?
Keep a stress log and record your stress intensity levels three times a day (morning, afternoon, and evening) for several weeks. Identify your primary stressors. Record any physiological, emotional, mental, or behavioral reactions you may experience to these stressors. For example, you may note in the morning that your stress level is an 8 on a 10 point scale because you will be giving a speech in the afternoon. You notice that you have a queasy stomach and a tense neck, you're feeling anxious, worried, and are fidgeting.
Once you identify how you respond to your stressors, use the information to cue you when to employ specific stress management strategies. For example, you could implement a plan where when your stress level reaches a 5, you will do a minimum of two minutes of abdominal breathing. Alternatively, when you notice a particular physiological signal such as a tense neck, it's time to do a five minute brief relaxation exercise.
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a. People with hoarding disorder typically collect possessions without distress, whereas people with OCD may hoard but take no enjoyment from their collections b. We can't - hoarding disorder is a subtype of OCD c. When patients with OCD do hoard, they maintain highly organized collections d. Hoarding disorder is distinguished by paranoid ideation
Where does the perception of pain take place?
A. free nerve endings B. somatosensory and limbic areas of the brain C. neural gates D. pain receptors
___________ originated in a Greek word, which is associated with the concept of everything staying in its assigned place or natural role.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Tyrone was playing with his toy airplane very loudly so his mother took the toy and placed it out of view in a nearby closed toy chest. How is Tyrone likely to respond if he is in the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development?
A. He will try to look for the toy and retrieve it from the toy chest. B. He will assume it is gone and will not look for the toy. C. He will be unable to remember where he last saw the toy. D. He will only look for the toy in the area immediately surrounding him.