Scientific American: Psychology
Video Profile Activity: Eric: In His Own Words
1. ________ is defined as a response to perceived threats or challenges resulting from stimuli that causes strain.
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2. Out of high school, Eric Flansberg’s first “career” involved an enormous amount of stress, and he notes that several people who went into the same area as him did not last very long due to the strain. What was that career?
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3. The stress response that people have to unpleasant and undesirable stressors, such as Eric’s example of getting laid off from work at a dairy plant, is called ________.
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4. Eric reports that the birth of his first son brought a lot of different emotions, such as fear, happiness, and excitement. The positive responses that he had to this life event are an example of ________.
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5. A(n) ________ is an agent that can produce stress at any time.
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