Exam 11: Stress and Health Psychology

When we must speed up, intensify, or shift the direction in our behaviors or when we feel we have to live up to a higher standard of performance, we experience ________.

Which of the following is not one of the criteria developed for evaluating adjustment, according to your text?

________ life changes involve a certain amount of stress.

The well-adjusted person is one who probably ________.

When we are forced to adjust because of a threat that causes us physical tension, we experience stress.

Dawnelle is sitting in class, when her professor makes the following announcement: "Any student who earned less than a 70% on the last exam is required to make an appointment to see me so that we can discuss your study habits and find ways to help you improve." She thinks to herself, "I got an 84% on that exam, so I don't have to go to his office if I don't want to." Dawnelle has made a(n) _______ appraisal of the situation, since she is deciding whether it is or is not relevant to her own circumstance.

Briefly summarize research on the well-adjusted person. In your discussion, list the three criteria proposed by Morris for evaluating healthy adjustment.

People with a trait called ________ tolerate stress extremely well, and in some cases seem to thrive on it.

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

In a hostage situation, to survive, victims sometimes seek to please their captors, and may identify with them as a way of coping with unbearable and unstoppable stress. This phenomenon is known as the ________.

The ability to "bounce back," recover one's self-confidence, good spirits, and hopeful attitude after extreme and prolonged stress is called ________.

A national survey on the impact of divorce on children found that most children suffer ________.

The tendency to start smoking occurs almost exclusively during the ________ years.

Dietary experts recommend a diet consisting mostly of each of the following except ________.

Parents who are overprotective of a child they did not want may be exhibiting ________.

Each of the following is probably true of lower-class members of society except they ________.

According to Maslow, well-adjusted people are ________ thinkers.

Intellectualization is a subtle form of ________.

Which of the following is not one of the three stages of the general adaptation syndrome?

The redirection and transformation of repressed drive into more socially acceptable forms is called ________.