| A | B |
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| Fight or flight response | autonomic nervous system prepares for action by either getting us to flee or to react physically to the situation |
| Life events approach | looks at how environmental stressors, like moving house or the death of a friend can cause us to experience the stress response |
| Stressors | environmental stimuli that can cause us to experiece the stress response |
| G.A.S | General Adaptation syndrome (description of physiological arousal due to the stress response) |
| Sympathetic Branch of the Autonomic System | The part which starts the physiological stress response |
| The Parasympathetic Branch of the Autonomic System | The part which starts to de-activate the physiological stress response |
| Holmes and Rahes life events scale | where participants can score environmental stressors such as points for moving house and divorce etc |
| Hans Selye | the person who formulated G.A.S. |
| One Physiological effect of the fight or flight response | blood is diverted from the intestine making more available to the brain and skeletal muscles |
| Kobassa | Psychologist who put forward a stress management program which takes cognitive evaluations into consideration |
