What is the difference between the following terms: stressor; stress response; and stress? What is the difference between eustress and distress? What are the links between stress and health (i.e. psychological problems, health problems, etc.)? What are effective strategies for managing stress? What are some ineffective strategies for managing stress?
What are the roles of the nervous and endocrine system in responding to stressors? What is the flight-or-flight reaction? What is homeostasis?
Physical responses to stress vary in intensity from person to person and situation to situation; although we all have a similar set of physical changes. However, what influences how we individually respond to stress?
What are the different personality types and what do they each entail? What impact does each of the personality types have on disease?
What is the theory of the general adaption syndrome and what does its stages entail? How does the general adaptation syndrome lead to general exhaustion? What is allostatic load?
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