Exam 11: Stress and Health Psychology

Petty annoyances, irritations, and frustrations that occur on a daily basis are called hassles.

The idea that more cars on the highway result in more traffic, leading to more traffic jams that result in more frustration and stress, causing more hostility and eventually more aggressive driving behavior and violence is the ________ hypothesis

Regarding bereavement, people who do not seek to find greater understanding or meaning in the death are the ________ adjusted and ________ depressed.

Which of the following accurately lists in order the stages of reactions to natural catastrophes?

A subfield of psychology concerned with the relationship between psychological factors and physical health and illness is called ________ psychology.

People with a Type D personality produce excessive amounts of ________.

Eating a well-balanced diet, getting regular exercise, not smoking, and avoiding high-risk behaviors are all elements of ________.

About ________ percent of all children under age 18 are involved in a divorce.

Confrontation, compromise, and withdrawal are all forms of defensive coping.

One of the most common and effective ways of coping with a conflict is to ________.

Selye proposed that we react to stress in a series of stages called the Stockholm Syndrome.

Each of the following is linked to recovery from posttraumatic stress disorder except _________.

One day at work, John gets yelled at by his boss. While he would like to yell back at her, he fears losing his job so he grits his teeth, buries his anger, and says nothing. Later, he returns home and immediately yells at his children, even though they have done nothing wrong. His behavior is typical of ________.

________ marks a radical departure from everyday life such that a person cannot carry on as before and, in some cases, never fully recovers.

Parents of children with cancer who refuse to believe that their children are dying are coping with their problems through the technique of ________.

Each of the following is a method for learning to cope with stress effectively except ________.

We take on the characteristics of someone else in order to share in that person's triumphs through the technique of ________.

According to Selye, physical symptoms and other signs of strain first appear in the ________ stage of the GAS.

The self-deceptive elements of defensive coping led Freud to believe that these elements were ________.

The reverse of projection is identification.