KINE 250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Supercharger, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Healthy Diet
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Chapter 3: managing stress and coping with life"s challenges. Acute stress: short-term physiological response to an immediate perceived threat. Chronic stress: ongoing state of physiological arousal in response to ongoing or numerous perceived threats. Destress: stress that can have a detrimental effect on health; negative stress. Episodic acute stress: state of regularly reacting with wild, acute stress about one thing or another. Eustress: stress that presents opportunities for personal growth; positive stress. Stress: series of mental and physiological responses and adaptations to a real or perceived threat to one"s well-being. Stressor: physical, social, psychological event or condition that upsets homeostasis and produces a stress response. Traumatic stress: physiological and mental response that occurs for a prolonged period of time after a traumatic event. I. e. major accident, war, assault, natural disaster, etc. Cortisol: hormone released by the adrenal glands that make stored nutrients more readily available to meet energy demands.
