What was the main point that Hans Selye emphasized about stress?
a. The body reacts to difficult life events like it reacts to disease
b. The way people react to stress closely resembles that of other animals.
c. People vary genetically in their ability to recover from stressful experiences.
d. A feeling of personal rejection is the most harmful type of stress.
a
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What is the main difference between the way younger people and older people respond to stress?
The process of aging increases the pituitary gland's response to stress, making it work harder. Older people keep stress hormones in their system at elevated levels for longer periods than younger people do. Younger people have a slower restorative process after a stressful episode than older people. Younger people have better coping strategies for dealing with stress than older people.
If you have stress from a roommate who does not wash her own dishes, and you take the time to talk to her directly about your wish that she wash her own dishes, this type of coping style is called:
a. emotion-focused coping . c. avoidant coping. b. approach coping. d. positive reinterpretation.