Exam 11: Stress and Health Psychology

Identify and briefly describe three ways to stay healthy by reducing stress, and three ways of learning to cope effectively with stress.

Stacey loves to sing. When she doesn't get a solo in the winter showcase, rather than quit, she decides to stay committed and sing in chorus even though she is still tense and upset from her failure. Her behavior is an example of ________.

Cece is often depressed and pessimistic. She has always been very shy when put in situations where she has to interact with her peers. Cece most closely matches someone with a ________ personality.

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

Defensive coping indicates that a person is immature or emotionally unstable.

Displacement refers to transforming repressed motives or feelings into more socially acceptable forms.

According to Lazarus, ________.

A supposedly mature adult reverting to childlike behavior is typical of ________.

Following a significant trauma, a few particularly stable individuals experience a positive emotional response called ________.

When you are faced with a dangerous or threatening situation, your adrenal glands release stress hormones such as adrenaline into the bloodstream. Subsequently, there are increases in your blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, and perspiration. This reaction is known as the ________.

Which of the following people is likely to experience the most stress in a given situation?

Stress results only from life or death situations.

Which of the following people is likely to experience the least stress in a given situation?

According to Lazarus, major events ________.

Soldiers who break down in the battlefield often cope with their situation by blocking out all memories of their behavior and their situation. This is a type of ________.

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

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

Expressions of anger are a form of ________.

More Americans smoke today than in the past.

According to Wortman and colleagues, each of the following is a myth about bereavement except that people ________.