Psychology and Stress Match these concepts to their explanations Tools A B 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