Exam 11: Stress and Health Psychology

Intellectualization is a subtle form of ________.

Each of the following is considered by your text to be one of the five common sources of frustration except ________.

Of all life's troubles, conflict is probably the most common.

Petty annoyances, irritations, and frustrations that arise from chronic or repeated conditions of living are called ________.

Good things can cause stress.

Summarize the research on stress, individual differences, hardiness, and resilience.

The general adaptation syndrome was proposed by ________.

Refusing to acknowledge a painful or threatening reality is ________.

The hormone ________ reduces the effects of oxytocin.

Jeremy returns from an emergency shelter to find his home was totally destroyed by a hurricane. Relief workers tell him where to stay for that evening and who to contact to begin the job of cleaning out the debris and rebuilding his home. He immediately goes to the temporary shelter and begins contacting the insurance and repair people. His behavior sounds like that of someone in the ________ stage of reaction to a catastrophe.

The stress hormone ________ damages heart and blood vessels over time.

A doctor who sees patients suffering every day protects herself from being affected by her patients' pain by discussing them only in terms of distant, technical, medical terminology. This doctor's behavior is typical of ________.

________ coping tends to be problem-oriented and to focus on the immediate issue.

The "Stockholm Syndrome" is an example of the defense mechanism of ________.

Of all of life's troubles, ________ is probably the most common.

Summarize research findings on the relationship between stress and immune system functioning.

When men are under stress, they are more likely than women to ________.

Of those Americans exposed to a severely traumatic event at some time in their lives, about ________ percent will develop symptoms of posttraumatic stress syndrome.

Some research has shown that having a religious commitment may help moderate high blood pressure and hypertension.

The feeling of being in control of one's life is described as ________.