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5.5: End-of-Chapter Material

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Key takeaways for this Chapter
  • Stressor is something in your life that causes stress.
  • The Stress response is your physical, emotional, and behavioral response to stressors.
  • Stressor + Stress Response = Stress
  • The fight or flight response is the bodies physical response to stressors
  • The fight or flight response is very important for escaping danger, however is elicited at any level of stress, either acute or long term.
  • People have varying emotional and behavioral responses to stress.
  • It is important to use productive behavioral responses rather than counter-productive responses.
  • Some stress is good for you!
  • Too much negative stress is associated with disease.
  • You can take purposeful actions to reduce stress in your life.

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  1. Kieco ). New York: Consumer Reports. retrieved from http://pni.osumc.edu/pnimedstudent.html. 05: Stress#return-footnote-31-1
  2. Tausk, F., Elenkov, I. and Moynihan, J. (2008), Psychoneuroimmunology. Dermatologic Therapy, 21: 22-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8019.2008.00166.x 05: Stress#return-footnote-31-2

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