Understanding Stress

Link to discussion board article – https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/well/mind/coronavirus-stress-management-anxiety-psychology.html?auth=linked-google Instructions –  Read the attached article, also found at the link.  Consider what you have learned so far about stress, motivation and emotion. (class textbook is Myers Psychology so use information from the unit (unit 8)  Explore it and think about the following questions: 1. Define stress using an evidenced based definition, in your own words. How do colloquial understandings of stress and the realities of stress differ? 2. What intersections can be made with other units studied so far. What is significant about them? 3. Assess the importance of functional stress.  4. Consider stress in terms of physical aspects and cognitive aspects. How does this change the understanding of stress. 5. Explore the relationship between stress and emotion or stress and motivation. How does this article play into the conversation? 6. Pose a proactive question for discussion about the article and its intersection with the unit. These questions must all be answered within response but is the bare minimum. Go beyond the bounds of the article and use outside research and knowledge from textbook or other reliable sources.  Your responses to this discussion prompt should be approximately 250-500 words. Your response must be clearly written with APA style, critical analysis, appropriate sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling count. Your response should be insightful, thoughtful, and analytical. A successful post will bring in information from class, the textbook and the article to create a solid substantive answer. My teacher is very nitpicky and this is a very important assignment for my grade. Please be specific and go beyond the bounds of what she requires for a better than average response and great grade. The questions should structure the discussion post but you should go beyond answering them and bring in insightful information from book or sources that are not just from the article. If you can not find the PDF for the textbook online, I can attach images of the textbook so let me know about that.