Exam 15: Social Psychology and Health

In the "tend-and-befriend" response to stress discussed in your text, tending refers to

Mild, transient reactions to stressful events, followed by a quick return to normal, healthy functioning, is the definition of

Research presented in this chapter demonstrated that the more a group expresses racist attitudes, the worse their health.This demonstrates a ________ correlation.

Many mental health professionals have argued that people who do not grieve heavily after the death of a spouse are in a state of denial.The authors of your text explain that

Under stress, women are more likely than men to seek out the companionship of

According to research on perceived control, even when people experience life-threatening chronic diseases such as cancer or AIDS, they can maintain a sense of perceived control over ________, and thus maintain psychological adjustment.

The authors of your text report that one response to stress is attacking or fleeing from the source of it.This is better known as the ________ response.

The concept of ________ refers to the ways in which people react to stressful events.

Lucile believes that she can control many things in her life-such as her health through her eating and exercise habits, her success in school through studying, and her happiness in friendships by being a kind person to others.Lucile is exhibiting a strong

It is ethically impossible to conduct experimental studies of stress and immune responses in humans to determine whether severe stress and prolonged stress actually causes susceptibility to health problems.However, some researchers have measured ________ and found that ________.

Research summarized in your textbook (Sastry & Ross, 1998) finds that members of ________ cultures show less of a relationship between perceived control and psychological distress because of the ________.

Based on information from your text on an internal sense of control, who is most likely to be psychologically well-adjusted?

All of the following are likely to experience negative effects on their health EXCEPT

Contrast the definition of stress used by Holmes and Rahe (1967) with the definition used by Lazarus (1966) in his approach to studying stress.

From a social-psychological perspective, one problem with studies on the relation between the number of negative life events and reports of physical illness is that

The authors of your text report that researchers exposed some participants in a study to the virus that causes the common cold and others to saline solution.Results of this study showed that ________ of participants reporting the least stress caught the cold, and ________ of participants reporting the most stress caught the cold.

Research presented by the authors of your text suggests that when someone's spouse dies, the majority of widows/widowers respond

Twenge and his colleagues (2004, 2015) report that in the last forty years, college students are believing more and more that they ________ over the good and bad things in life.

Researchers exposed some participants to the virus that causes the common cold and exposed other participants to an inert saline solution.They found that the more stress participants reported, the more likely they were to contract colds.Results of this study suggest that

Pennebaker's research on the effects of "opening up" or confiding in others shows that those people who write ________ show the most improvements to their health.