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Stress response flashcards with fight-flight-freeze, cortisol, and coping strategies for Grade 12.
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This 36-card flashcard set covers stress physiology and coping for 12th Grade health or psychology courses. It includes acute and chronic stressors, the fight-flight-or-freeze response, the SAM and HPA-axis pathways, cortisol, Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome, the gut-brain axis, and coping strategies including the Lazarus and Folkman model. Use it for vocabulary review, unit exams, or AP Psychology preparation.

Subject:
Science
Topic:
Health & Nutrition
Grade Level:
12th Grade
Updated March 2026

Terms in This Set

  • Stress
  • Stressor
  • Acute stress
  • Chronic stress
  • Internal stressor
  • The fight-flight-or-freeze response
  • External stressor
  • Fight response
  • Freeze response
  • First Wave Response (SAM)
  • Second Wave Response (HPA-Axis)
  • Tonic Immobility
  • Cortisol
  • The Gut Brain Axis (GBA)
  • Gut microbiota
  • Enterotype
  • Gut microbiome
  • Selye’s Général Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) Model
  • Alarm Reaction
  • Exhaustion
  • Resistance
  • Lazarus and Folkman Transactional Model of Stress and Coping
  • Primary Appraisal
  • Challenge
  • Threat
  • Loss/Harm
  • Benign-Positive
  • Irrelevant
  • Secondary Appraisal
  • Re-Appraisal
  • Approach strategy
  • Avoidance strategy
  • Coping strategy
  • Coping
  • Context-specific Effectiveness
  • Coping Flexibility

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