Exam 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health

Your roommate has turned your room into a garbage dump, filled with rotten leftover food and unwashed clothes. Assuming that you don't like living with rotting food and dirty clothes, what coping strategies described in this section might help you?

In a difficult situation, successful copers often compare themselves to others who are (as they perceive) less fortunate than themselves.

Ana Maria is watching an old Laurel and Hardy film, which makes her chuckle and makes her want to see more funny movies. Which side of her prefrontal cortex is likely to be most active?

What property of some brain cells led scientists to call them mirror neurons?

What are some problems with law enforcement agencies using polygraph machines to detect lies and deception? What other technologies are researchers trying to use to measure the physiological signs of lying?

For years, Lola Falana was one of the hottest entertainers in Las Vegas. After she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she noted that she had gained a new appreciation of life that went beyond fame and fortune. In recent interviews, she talks about her fresh start and her new life. What coping method does this illustrate?

________ is an effort to accept reality by changing your own attitudes, goals, or emotions.

A person is in the _______________ of the general adaptation syndrome when the body becomes more vulnerable to other stressors. For example, when the body is mobilized to fight off the flu, it is easier to be annoyed by minor frustrations.

Facial expressions do not always reveal the emotions underneath. The villain in Shakespeare's Henry VI said, "Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile; and cry content to that which grieves my heart; and wet my cheeks with artificial tears, and frame my face to all occasions." How did Paul Ekman and his colleagues distinguish between authentic and false facial expressions of emotion?

We are giving away an answer to #2, but why might answer d not be helpful to Amber?

Making social comparisons, especially comparisons to one who is worse off, is therapeutic in difficult situations.

What hormone is elevated when happy couples hug one another?

Realistic optimists are more likely than pessimists to do which of the following?

Steve is unexpectedly called on in class to discuss a question. He hasn't the faintest idea of the answer, and he feels his heart pound and his palms sweat. According to Selye, Steve is in the ___________ phase of his stress response.

Finding out what your legal resources are when you have been the victim of a crime is an example of:

Emotion-focused coping strategies concentrate on the emotions that a problem has caused.

"This class drives me crazy, but I'm better off than my friends who aren't in college" is an example of:

Primary control is a "fighting back" philosophy.

Patients recovering from heart attacks, which had an external locus of control, when compared to patients with an internal locus of control: