What would you define as the key mechanisms of the stress response incorporating

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What would you define as the key mechanisms of the stress response incorporating the Seligman, et al. and Crum et al. articles? In what ways does the information presented by these authors increase personal awareness of system one thinking? Support your position. Seligman, M. E. P., Railton, P., Baumeister, R. F., & Sripada, C. (2013). Navigating into the future or driven by the past. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8(2), 119–141. doi:10.1177/1745691612474317 3. Rethinking Stress: The Role of Mindsets in Determining the Stress Response Read: Crum, A., Salovey, P., & Achor, S. (2013) Rethinking stress: The role of mindsets in determining the stress response. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(4), 716-733.     

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Note* This response is in UK English, please paste the response to MS Word and you should be able to spot discrepancies easily. Also, this answer is based entirely on scholarly works. I presume by the scrupulous nature of the question, your professor would prefer a cited scholarly response.

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When faced with a stressful situation, the physiological stress response consists of an activation of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS)

The “stress response,” comprised of activation of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), a parasympathetic withdrawal, and increased activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, is the body’s general reaction to demands made on it (Kunz-Ebrecht, MohamedAli, Feldman, Kirschbaum, & Steptoe, 2003; Selye, 1975).

The assumption that an objective level of stress This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly. RETHINKING STRESS 717 predicts physical and psychological outcomes largely has been eclipsed by the notion that responses to stress are driven by how people manage or prevent the negative effects of stress; in effect, how—and how well—they cope. Coping refers to the process of appraising threat and mobilizing cognitive and behavioral resources to combat stress (Billings & Moos, 1981; Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub, 1989; Folkman & Lazarus, 1980; Penley, Tomaka, & Wiebe, 2002)

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