Your textbook discusses in detail the many negative impacts stress can have on both physical and mental health. The book also points out that stress can be difficult to study scientifically because there are different types of stressors that may vary in degrees of severity. Because of this, it is hard for researchers to quantify stress reliably in order to compare the effects of different types of stressors.

Based on the information you have learned in this course, if you were a researcher who wanted to study the effects of stress, what ideas do you have about how to solve the problem described above?