If you expect to face a stressful experience, what can you do to make it less stressful?

A) Arrange it so you will not know when the stressful experience is about to happen.
B) Make sure your friends do not know what you are going through.
C) First get experience with a milder degree of the stressor.
D) Arrange it so you will have no sense of control over the event.

Stressful Experience

An event or situation that triggers significant emotional, physical, or psychological strain or tension in an individual.

Stressor

Any event, experience, or environmental stimulus that causes stress in an individual.

Control

In an experimental setting, the standard by which the test results can be compared; usually a group or condition that does not receive the experimental treatment.