Exam 15: Stress, Coping, and Health

Research has shown that which of the following may serve to inoculate an individual against subsequent stressors?

What evidence is there that optimism or pessimism affects the response to stress?

Research by Eisenberger and colleagues on the neuroscience of social support found that social support contributes to health because those with more social support

Poor coping skills and the lack of a social support network are examples of ______________ that can _____________ a person's resistance to stress and the negative effects that stress can cause.

All of the following are part of an effective stress-management program EXCEPT ________.

Beatrice experiences high levels of stress when she has to drive on the highway. She notices that when another driver cuts in quickly in front of her, her heart rate increases and her muscles tense. In order to change this, Beatrice teaches herself some relaxation exercises and tells herself that the driver of the other car must be rushing to the hospital or some other emergency. Beatrice has responded with which coping strategy?

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

At 50, Keket has a heart attack. Her physician warns her that if she doesn't take a more laid-back approach to life and her work, she will die. Because her recovery takes significantly longer than she told her employer it would, she loses her job. Rather than seeing this as an opportunity to find a job she enjoys, Keket harbours resentment and hostility toward her former coworkers and boss. Based on this information, Keket's heart attack was probably due to

A person who is under constant stress has chronically high levels of stress hormones in his body. The fact that these elevated hormone levels may eventually damage his arteries is best considered as an example of how stress can impact health by changing

Compared with your great-grandparents, your death will more likely be related to your ________.

Kelly is a smoker, sees her smoking as a problem, but feels powerless to quit. As a result, Kelly has no interest in trying to quit smoking. In Prochaska and DiClemente's stages of transtheoretical model, Kelly's stage is most closely representative of the

A student is a relaxed and agreeable person, and usually does not have a sense of urgency to complete their tasks. The student has a ___________ personality.

How does relapse prevention treatment try to keep lapses from becoming a relapse? How effective is this approach?

All of the following are considered protective factors against stress EXCEPT

Handing out clean needles to drug addicts and giving free condoms to people at risk for sexually transmitted diseases are both examples of interventions that are most consistent with the ____________ approach to prevention.

Which of the following is NOT a method used in the multimodal treatment of substance abuse?

A review by House and his colleagues (1988) of studies conducted with almost 37,000 people living in the United States, Finland, and Sweden found that people with low levels of ______________ were twice as likely to die during the study. The relationship between this variable and health was __________ for men than it was for women.

List four research-derived suggestions that may help maintain and enhance personal happiness. Provide a concrete example of how to apply each.

If you wanted to determine whether or not a person was experiencing stress, you might look for the presence of a particular chemical in the blood. What would you look for?

All of the following are examples of aerobic exercise, EXCEPT ________.