Exam 11: Stress and Health Psychology

The phrase that best describes positive reappraisal is ________.

Enrique is constantly depressed, pessimistic, sarcastic, and even cynical. He is shy and withdrawn and never seems to "come out of his shell." He most closely matched someone with a ________ personality.

Which of the following researchers is most closely associated with exploring the relationship of "hassles" to stress?

The Type A behavior pattern is a significant predictor of ________.

A reaction formation is a behavioral form of ________.

Gloria wants to be the best account executive her firm has ever seen, in the hope that she may quickly be promoted to vice president for investment and finance. She is pushing herself to achieve perfection because of ________.

Sometimes, people cause their own stress.

When we feel forced to speed up, intensify, or shift the direction of our behavior to meet a higher standard of performance, we experience frustration.

________ can lower stress and improve immune system functioning.

After weeks of being taunted by her so-called "friends" at school, Alyssa begins actively avoiding them whenever possible. Her coping style is best described as ________.

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

More Americans smoke today than in the past.

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

Conflict was described in terms of its two opposite tendencies of approach and avoidance by ________.

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

The old saying "damned if you do and damned if you don't" most resembles a(n) ________ conflict.

People who scored high on an anger scale were ________ times more likely to have heart attacks or sudden cardiac death than their calmer peers.

The proper order in which the stages of the general adaptation syndrome occur is ________.

Denial and repression are the most basic defense mechanisms.

Perhaps the greatest danger of withdrawal as a way of coping is that it will ________.