Exam 3: Stress and Stress Management

Betty is constantly trying to be the best. For her, winning is everything. She feels constant time pressure and always keeps one eye glued to the clock. She has little patience with others and expects them to be as ambitious as she is. Her behavior is typical of a(n) ______ personality.

Permanent damage to your hearing can occur with brief bursts of noise beginning at about ______ dB.

Sitting quietly and thinking only of the word relax is a form of ______.

Which of the following people is likely to experience the least amount of pain?

Telling oneself that pain is unbearable and that it will never cease increases discomfort.

Which of the following people are most likely to tolerate crowding well?

______ forms of conflict entail motives that aim in opposite directions.

Conflict is ______.

Compared to people who are Type B, people who are Type A are ______.

A conflict in which each of two or more goals has both positive and negative qualities, making it difficult to decide which goal is better or worse for you, is called a(n) ______ conflict.

Analgesic drugs work by inhibiting the production of ______.

A means of training people to gain some degree of control over internal bodily responses through the use of physiological monitoring that provides information about changes in these responses is ______.

A recent study in Minneapolis found that ______.

Defensive methods of coping are almost always harmful.

Which of the following is not true?

Sarah is feeling very stressed because she is lonely and having constant problems with her co-workers. The source of her stress would be best classified as ______.

Defensive methods for managing stress aim to manipulate the environment to remove stressors

For most people, the stresses of commuting are ______.

Aggressive behavior heightens interpersonal conflict.

Because of stress, people living in faster-paced cities accomplish less than people living in slower-paced cities.