HEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eustress, Stress Management, Blood Pressure
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Top 10 impediments to academic performance: based on percentage of students who reported each impediment. Stress: the collective psychobiological condition that occurs in reaction to a disruptive, unexpected, or exciting stimulus. Stressor: any physical or psychological condition, event, or factor that causes positive or negative stress: types of stress. Stress resulting from negative stressors: a reflection of the harmful effects these stressors often have on the mind and body, the body"s stress response. The specific psychobiological changes that occur as the body attempts to cope with the stressor and return to homeostasis, or balance: fight-or-flight response. A series of physiological reactions to a stressor designed to enable the body to stand and fight or to flee. Temporarily boosts strength and reflexes to physically enable avoidance or confrontation of danger. Most modern-day stressors are not the extreme physical threats the fight-or-flight response is designed for.
