Test 4

Front 1

Distress

Back 1

The effect of unpleasant and undesirable stress

Front 2

What are ways to promote wellness?

Back 2

Exercise??

Front 3

Hassles

Back 3

The daily annoyances of everyday life

Front 4

What does some research conclude about people with a strong religious belief?

Back 4

People with religious beliefs have been found to cope better with stressful events.

Front 5

What is the most extreme escape from frustration?

Back 5

Suicide

Front 6

How do some from the Vietnamese culture cope with stress?

Back 6

Rituals, consulting a fortune-teller, eating certain foods, or tai chi (form of meditation)

Front 7

Define approach-approach conflict.

Back 7

Deciding between two desirable goals.

Front 8

Problem-Focused Coping

Back 8

Eliminating the source of a stress or reduce its impact through direct actions.

Ex: A student not understanding lesson, result-getting help from tutor or a study group.

Front 9

What does the field of psychoneuroimmunology study?

Back 9

The effects of psychological factors such as stress, emotions, thoughts, and behavior on the immune system.

Front 10

What might cause stress if people lived in poverty?

Back 10

Lack of sufficient money to provide basic necessities. Also overcrowding, lack of medical care, increased rates of disabilities due to poor prenatal care, noisy environments, increased rates of illness, violence, and substance abuse.

Front 11

Stress

Back 11

The term used to describe the physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging.

Front 12

What can concentrative meditation do for a person?

Back 12

Helps relax a person by focusing the mind on repetitive or unchanging stimulus so the mind can be cleared of disturbing thoughts.

Front 13

Stressors

Back 13

Events that cause a stress reaction

Front 14

Emotion-Focused Coping

Back 14

Coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor

Front 15

What major life event on the on the Social Readjustment Scale has the highest number?

Back 15

Death of spouse

Front 16

What is acculturative stress

Back 16

Stress resulting from the need to change and adapt one's ways to the majority culture

Front 17

What effect does time pressure have on creativity?

Back 17

Negative impact

Front 18

What type of people do not live as long as the average life expectancy?

Back 18

People without a social-support system

Front 19

Double Approach-Approach Conflict

Back 19

Deciding between two goals, each goal possessing both positive and negative outcomes.

Front 20

What parts of the nervous system are associated with the general adaptation syndrome?

Back 20

Phase 1: Alarm-Sympathetic nervous system
Phase 2: Resistance- Sympathetic Division
Phase 3: Exhaustion Parasympathetic division

Front 21

Conformity

Back 21

Changing one's own behavior to match that of other people

Front 22

Groupthink

Back 22

A kind of thinking that occurs when peoples place more importance on maintaining group cohesiveness than on assessing the facts of the problem with which the group is concerned.

Front 23

How is Milgram's study related to the foot in the door effect?

Back 23

Participants were more likely to go on with each next demanding step of the experiment because they had already agreed to the smaller increments of shock, but yet no research supports this idea.

Front 24

How can a person stop social loafing?

Back 24

Working by themselves

Front 25

Attitudes

Back 25

The way a person feels and things about something, as well as the way a person chooses to behave

Front 26

What hormone is associated with aggression?

Back 26

Testosterone

Front 27

Interpersonal Attraction

Back 27

Liking or having the desire for a relationship with another person

Front 28

Attributions

Back 28

The process of explaining one's own behavior and the behavior of others

Front 29

Stereotype

Back 29

A set of characteristics that people believe is shared by all members of a particular social category

Front 30

Persuasion

Back 30

The process by which one person tries to change the belief

Front 31

Character

Back 31

Value judgments of a person's moral and ethical behavior

Front 32

What did the id do as far as Freud was concerned?

Back 32

Freud came up with the concept of the id to fit what he already knew about infants- they have a sex-drive (pleasure-drive)

Front 33

What are two levels of the unconscious mind according to Jung?

Back 33

1) Personal unconscious
2) Collective unconscious

Front 34

Self-efficacy

Back 34

Individual's perspective of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance.

Front 35

How are Maslow's and Roger's theories alike?

Back 35

They both believed that humans are always striving to fulfill their innate capacities and capabilities and become everything that their genetic potential will allow them to become.

Front 36

What are the dangers of online personality tests?

Back 36

Some people are able to fake their answers and respond in what they feel are the socially appropriate ways; though validity scales are helpful against cheating, they aren't perfect.

Front 37

What is a problem with personality assessments by behaviorists?

Back 37

The observer effect (when a person's behavior is affect by being watched), observer bias, lack of control over external environment.

Front 38

Interviewer Bias

Back 38

Opinion or prejudice on the part of the interviewer, which is displayed during the interview process and thus affects the outcome of the interview

Front 39

How have twin studies and adoption studies focused on heritability traits shown?

Back 39

Identical twins are more similar than fraternal twins or unrelated people in intelligence, leadership abilities, tendency to follow rules..... Adoption studies have been able to show how genetic influences account for a great deal of personality development, regardless of shared or non-shared environments.

Front 40

What do source traits do?

Back 40

They form the core of a personality.