Exam 15: Stress, Coping, and Health

When Ben loses his wife of thirty years to heart disease, one of the most important environmental factors that will indicate how well physically and psychologically he fares is/are

Molly and Daniel's baby girl was born with severe genetic disabilities. Molly joined a support group for parents with disabled children that met every week. Daniel chose to keep his feelings private and did not participate in the support group. According to research

Zach was working as an intern for an investment company. His office was in the World Trade Center in New York City and his first day on the job was September 11, 2001. Zach survived the terrorist attacks physically unharmed but is now experiencing flashbacks, digestive problems, and he can't seem to have successful personal relationships. Zach's current problems may be a result of

Participants who were excluded from a game of Cyberball during an fMRI showed

A student who is a compulsive drinker, is in therapy to treat themselves of this problem. The counsellor helps the student set specific goals by helping them select a behaviour-change strategy that would work for her. The counsellor is employing ___________.

Imagine that you go through some sort of public health emergency during your lifetime (e.g. a global pandemic). You have just found out that your life will be radically changed for an unknown period of time until the emergency has passed. If you start thinking about what resources you have to help you manage the stress, what could that process be referred to as?

Which of the following statements regarding stress and health is most accurate?

All of the following are possible explanations for the positive correlation between self-reported negative events and psychological distress, EXCEPT it could be that ________.

A person in the preparation stage of change receives appropriately timed instructions for the various behaviour change skills needed to alter a particular problem behaviour. These instructions give her the appropriate skills to move on to the action and maintenance stages. This example best illustrates

Which of the following is NOT a part of mindfulness?

What is the relationship between self-reported life events and measures of psychological well-being? Describe three possible causal paths for this relation. Differentiate between protective factors and vulnerability factors and give two examples of each.

A person in a weight-loss program is told to eat when he is sitting at his dining room table and nowhere else. This suggestion is an example of what is called a ________________ technique.

Women are more likely than men to use strategies such as ________.

Carl has been in poor health for several years and to his friends, this comes as no real surprise. He tends to eat a lot of fatty foods, doesn't get much sleep, and hasn't had a medical check-up in many years. Carl's behaviours would best be classified as examples of

A behavioural psychologist focuses exclusively on the environmental causes of behaviour and assumes that psychological factors have little or no importance. This psychologist would be most likely to use which of the following definitions of stress in her work? Stress as a ___________________________.

Which of these structures has been found to be underactive in those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when processing emotional information?

Research exploring the effectiveness of mindfulness training on the stresses of teaching found that the training was effective in

You are really stressed about the upcoming final exam in math. Which of the following coping strategies which be the WORST to use?

Once you get over the initial stress associated with your first exam of finals week, the fact that you have several more exams will likely lead your body to enter the __________ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

Research has shown that excessive levels of stress can have detrimental effects on both psychological and physical health. Evolutionary theorists speculate that this may be because the physical mobilization system that was shaped by evolution to help people cope with life-threatening ___________ stressors may not be adaptive for coping with the _____________ stressors that characterize the modern world.