Chapter 13 Pool Questions

Front 1

What does the research have to say about the general effect of everyday problems and the minor nuisances of life?

Back 1

Minor stresses may have significant harmful effects on both physical and mental health.

Front 2

Most of Conrad’s friends consider him to be highly neurotic. It is likely that, compared to his friends, Conrad is

Back 2

More likely to perceive events as stressful.

Front 3

Circumstances that threaten, or are perceived to threaten, one’s well-being and tax one’s coping abilities define

Back 3

Stress.

Front 4

Which of the following is NOT one of the principle types of stress?

Back 4

Anxiety

Front 5

When a person’s pursuit of a goal is blocked or thwarted, the person experiences

Back 5

Frustration

Front 6

When a choice must be made between two attractive goals, we are experiencing

Back 6

An approach-approach conflict

Front 7

When a choice must be made between two unattractive goals, we are said to be experiencing

Back 7

An avoidance-avoidance conflict

Front 8

The pursuit of a goal that has both attractive and unattractive features defines

Back 8

An approach-avoidance conflict

Front 9

What of the following is an example of a stressful situation that involves conflict?

Back 9

You can’t decide whether to go to Florida or Mexico for spring break.

Front 10

Current thinking on change and stress suggests that

Back 10

Change is not inherently or inevitably stressful.

Front 11

Stress responses affect the individual

Back 11

Emotionally, physiologically, and behaviorally.

Front 12

The optimal level of arousal for task performance

Back 12

Decreases as the tasks become more complex.

Front 13

Recent research suggests that ____ emotions experienced while under stress appear to play a key role in helping people bounce back from the difficulties associated with stress.

Back 13

Positive

Front 14

As an individual experiences prolonged stress and begins to use coping efforts, physiological arousal stabilizes at a level higher than normal. This occurs during the ___ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

Back 14

Resistance

Front 15

Physiological responses to stress occur via two major pathways through which the ___ conveys signals to the ___.
a. pituitary gland; endocrine system
b. pituitary gland; autonomic nervous system
c. hypothalamus; endocrine system
d. hypothalamus; autonomic nervous system

Back 15

Hypothalamus; endocrine system

Front 16

You have just come face to face with a bear on your walk through the woods. Your body automatically mobilizes itself for action in the ___ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

Back 16

Exhaustion

Front 17

Stress effects appear to be moderated by the

Back 17

Hypothalamus activating the sympathetic nervous system

Front 18

Efforts to master, reduce, or tolerate the demands created by stress refers to

Back 18

Coping.

Front 19

Constructive coping includes all of the following EXCEPT
a. confronting a problem directly.
b. inhibiting emotional reactions to stress.
c. reliance on the use of defense mechanisms.
d. making reasonably realistic appraisals of coping resources.

Back 19

Reliance on the use of defense mechanisms.

Front 20

Relatively healthful efforts that people make to deal with stressful events are referred to as

Back 20

Constructive coping

Front 21

Christine is relatively relaxed, patient, easygoing, and amicable. Christine would be classified as having

Back 21

a Type B personality.

Front 22

A person’s chance of dying from heart disease is roughly doubled if the person has

Back 22

Depression.

Front 23

Americans tend to prefer ___ social support, while Asians tend to prefer ___ social support.

Back 23

Explicit; implicit

Front 24

Studies have shown that if people can give up smoking,

Back 24

Their overall health risks decline reasonably quickly.

Front 25

The average smoker has an estimated life expectancy ____ shorter than that of a similar nonsmoker.

Back 25

13-14 years

Front 26

Neurogenisis can be promoted by

Back 26

Stress.

Front 27

Which of the following is NOT offered by psychologists as an explanation for why people delay seeking needed medical treatment?

Back 27

Fear of possible medical treatments

Front 28

Which of the following is NOT an important factor in patient nonadherence or noncompliance to medical advice?

Back 28

Patients believe the instructions are inappropriate