Exam 15: Stress, Coping, and Health

When Clay's father was diagnosed with lung cancer, Clay decided to quit smoking. Despite throwing out his cigarette packs and lighters, joining a smoking-cessation support group, and saving the money he might otherwise have spent on cigarettes is helping, Clay is still smoking cigarettes he bums from friends. Though he gives up trying to quit for a while, he decides to try visits to his physician to get some additional help. His doctor prescribes an antidepressant called Zyban that helps some people quit and encourages Clay to start individual therapy. In therapy, Clay can learn how to deal with situations that trigger his need to smoke and develop self-monitoring and stress-management techniques. By adding these approaches, called _____________, Clay will have a more powerful behaviour-change package.

Which of the following is the most important predictor of physical health for people with Type A personality?

A person appraises a potential stressor as benign, neutral, or threatening in the ______________ appraisal stage.

Describe the transtheoretical model and the rationale for stage-matched interventions.

During a week of final exams, one of your friends comes up to you and says, "I'm so worked up this week. I've been so worried, tense, and strung out that I've really lost it!" Statements like these are most consistent with the definition of stress as a(n)

Work with nonhuman primates has found that mild early life stress _________ emotional, cognitive, and hormonal resistance to stressors later in life.

Aerobic exercise was specifically mentioned as one of the behaviours that can decrease negative health risks of

General adaptation syndrome is defined as a pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses, and behavioural tendencies that occur in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and the resources needed to cope with them.

Motivational interviewing has been highly successful for people in decreasing unwanted behaviours. Which of the following is NOT part of the motivational interview process?

What are some different types of stressors? How do researchers measure stressful life events?

Your upcoming surgery makes you very nervous. You decide to spend time with your friends before the surgery and make sure your parents are there when you come out of surgery. Your behaviour would be an example of which coping strategy?

Kelly enrolled in a foreign language course this term and is about to take the final oral examination for the course. Kelly is feeling worried about the examination and believes "If I don't get an 'A' on this exam it will show that I'm always going to be a complete failure at everything." Kelly's belief best represents

Which of the following lists the six stages of the transtheoretical model of behaviour change in the proper order?

As you encounter a stressor in the environment, you experience an increase in cortisol. Which of the following stages of the general adaption syndrome (GAS) have you entered?

Researchers frequently observed significant associations between stress and psychological well-being, but it is difficult to determine which factor causes the other or if they are both influenced by some unmeasured third factor.

Multimodal treatment approaches to treating substance abuse include all of the following measures EXCEPT

What four types of information increase coping self-efficacy?

Greater social support appears to be associated with fewer health problems because it affects ________.

A study that followed 17,000 Harvard undergraduates into middle age revealed that the death rates were ___________ lower among moderate exercisers than among those in a less active group of the same age.

The transactional definition of stress asserts that stress is the product of cognitive, physiological, and behavioural responses that are evoked when there is a perceived imbalance between