Learning Objectives


1		Define stress, stressor, and person-environment fit.



2		Describe Cannon's fight-or-flight response.



3		Describe Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome.



4		Describe Taylor & Klein's Tend-and-Befriend theory.



5		Compare and contrast primary and secondary appraisal and their roles in the experience of stress.



6		Describe the physiological response to stress.



7		Describe the assessment of stress.



8		Describe the dimensions of stressful events.



9		Evaluate the extent to which stress is an objective versus subjective experience.



10		Explain the process of habituation to stress and responses to ongoing stressors.



11		Explain the impact of the anticipation and aftereffects of stress.



12		Explain the process of helplessness and learned helplessness.



13		Describe how the acute stress paradigm is used to study stress in the laboratory.



14		Describe how inducing disease is used to study stress.



15		Describe the nature of stressful life events and their relationship to stress.



16		Describe the use of the Schedule of Recent Life Events (SRE) in the measurement of stress.



17		Define daily hassles and chronic strain and explain their relationship to physical and psychological health.



18		Describe the sources of chronic stress and their impact on health.



19		Describe the problems associated with studying chronic stress.



20		Describe factors in the workplace that are related to stress.



21		Describe the solutions used to reduce occupational stress.



22		Explain the relationship of multiple roles to stress, and identify gender differences in work and family roles and the experience of stress.

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