Understanding Stress: Components and Response

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What is stress according to the text?

  • The alteration of homeostatic balance by internal factors
  • A passive response to external influences
  • The external influences that alter homeostatic balance (correct)
  • A neutral effect on the body's equilibrium

What are stressors?

  • Negative factors that cause distress
  • Factors that cause disturbances in homeostatic balance (correct)
  • External influences that have a neutral effect
  • Factors that lead to a passive stress response

How did Selye classify stressors?

  • As neutral or non-neutral stressors
  • As positive (Eustressors) or negative (Distressors) (correct)
  • As passive or active stressors
  • As environmental or personal stressors

What changes the perception of a neutral stressor into a negative stressor according to the text?

<p>Feedback from a clinical tutor (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main idea regarding stress response according to the text?

<p>It is a response rather than something that happens to us (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where do stressors come from according to the text?

<p>The external environment or personal perception (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Selye refer to as positive stressors?

<p>Eustressors (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main characteristic of stress, according to the text?

<p>It alters homeostatic balance (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does the text describe the perception of a neutral stressor turning into a negative stressor?

<p>It is shaped by personal perception (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is stressed defined as, in the context of the text?

<p>An external influence altering homeostatic balance (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three separate components of stress mentioned in the text?

<p>The stressors, the stress response, pathophysiological sequelae (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of stressor does not necessarily lead to the stress response until it is interpreted differently?

<p>Neutral stressor (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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