STRESS MANAGEMENT SERIES EXSC 410
EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉4 categories of stressors. Answer: psychointrapersonal (most of
our stressors), bioecological, physical, sociological
◉3 aspects of hardiness. Answer: commitment, challenge, control
◉Bioecological stressor example. Answer: changes in barometric
pressure
◉Stages of general adaptation syndrome. Answer: alarm, resistance,
exhaustion
◉Life-events theory. Answer: when a situation requires more
resources than available
◉Walter Cannon. Answer: First to describe acute stress (fight-or-
flight response) and developed the concept of homeostasis
,◉Homeostasis. Answer: the property of either an open system or a
closed system that regulates its internal environment so as to
maintain a stable constant condition
◉Four features of homeostasis. Answer: 1) constancy is an open
system
2) steady-state conditions require that any tendency toward change
automatically meets with factors that resist change
3) regulating system that determines the homeostatic state consists
of a number of cooperating mechanisms
4) does not occur by chance
◉Fight-or-flight response. Answer: a primitive instinct that quickly
increases heart rate, respiration, blood pressure and serum
cholesterol
◉Eustress
Distress. Answer: good stress
bad stress
◉Allostasis. Answer: the purpose of biological systems is to meet
demand in a changing environment
, ◉Stress. Answer: the inability to cope with a perceived threat to
one's mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being which
results in a series of physiological responses and adaptations
◉Stress reactivity. Answer: synonymous with the fight-or-flight
response
◉Aspects of wellness. Answer: physical, intellectual, spiritual, social
and emotional
◉Two systems that communicate the stress response through your
body. Answer: Nervous system, and endocrine system (hormones)
◉Reptilian complex. Answer: controls creating, core temperature,
heart rate blood pH
◉Emotional brain. Answer: behavioral and psychological resolution
to all of the emotions and specifically mediates the social emotions
◉Neocortex. Answer: highest level of thinking, problem solving,
language etc.
◉Thalamus. Answer: processing information going to and from the
spinal cord, arousal, regulating sleep
EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉4 categories of stressors. Answer: psychointrapersonal (most of
our stressors), bioecological, physical, sociological
◉3 aspects of hardiness. Answer: commitment, challenge, control
◉Bioecological stressor example. Answer: changes in barometric
pressure
◉Stages of general adaptation syndrome. Answer: alarm, resistance,
exhaustion
◉Life-events theory. Answer: when a situation requires more
resources than available
◉Walter Cannon. Answer: First to describe acute stress (fight-or-
flight response) and developed the concept of homeostasis
,◉Homeostasis. Answer: the property of either an open system or a
closed system that regulates its internal environment so as to
maintain a stable constant condition
◉Four features of homeostasis. Answer: 1) constancy is an open
system
2) steady-state conditions require that any tendency toward change
automatically meets with factors that resist change
3) regulating system that determines the homeostatic state consists
of a number of cooperating mechanisms
4) does not occur by chance
◉Fight-or-flight response. Answer: a primitive instinct that quickly
increases heart rate, respiration, blood pressure and serum
cholesterol
◉Eustress
Distress. Answer: good stress
bad stress
◉Allostasis. Answer: the purpose of biological systems is to meet
demand in a changing environment
, ◉Stress. Answer: the inability to cope with a perceived threat to
one's mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being which
results in a series of physiological responses and adaptations
◉Stress reactivity. Answer: synonymous with the fight-or-flight
response
◉Aspects of wellness. Answer: physical, intellectual, spiritual, social
and emotional
◉Two systems that communicate the stress response through your
body. Answer: Nervous system, and endocrine system (hormones)
◉Reptilian complex. Answer: controls creating, core temperature,
heart rate blood pH
◉Emotional brain. Answer: behavioral and psychological resolution
to all of the emotions and specifically mediates the social emotions
◉Neocortex. Answer: highest level of thinking, problem solving,
language etc.
◉Thalamus. Answer: processing information going to and from the
spinal cord, arousal, regulating sleep
