Exam 11: Stress and Health Psychology

The well-adjusted person is one who probably ________.

Research indicates that it is the ________ components of the Type A personality that predict heart disease.

The link between exposure to stress and the development of cancer has been:

According to Maslow, individuals who are well adjusted attempt to ________.

The most common mechanism for blocking painful feelings and memories is ________.

Sam spends six years in college earning his bachelor's degree in psychology and his master's degree in human relations. After graduation, he has difficulty finding a job due to an overabundance of people with human relations training. Soon, Sam begins to act overly defensive and somewhat hostile towards his family. Sam's behavior is due to ________.

According to Selye, some people experience "burnout" while others may develop illnesses or turn to alcohol and drugs to cope with stress during the ________ stage of the GAS.

________ occurs when a person is prevented from reaching a goal because someone or something is in the way.

When we attribute feelings we do not want to have to someone else we may be ________.

We are most likely to turn to inappropriate coping techniques and cling to them rigidly, despite evidence that they are not working, during the ________ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

Denial is the most common defense mechanism for blocking out painful feelings and memories.

A child who is extremely angry at her father hits her little brother instead. This is most likely an example of ________.

Which of the following is not one of the techniques discussed in your text for coping with stress at college?

In situations where people are under stress but there is little or nothing they can do to cope directly with the stress, they are likely to turn to ________.

People who respond to life's events with a laid-back, easygoing attitude are said to be exhibiting a ________ behavior pattern.

Each of the following appears to make a person more vulnerable to developing posttraumatic stress disorder except ________.

According to Lewin, the result of simultaneous attraction to two appealing possibilities, neither of which has any negative qualities is called an ________ conflict.

Avoiding a situation when other forms of coping are not practical is known as ________.

Each of the following is true of how attending religious services may impact people's stress levels except ________.

Posttraumatic stress disorder can set in right after a traumatic event.