Exam 12: Social Psychology

Cortisol _____ one's response to immediate danger. It _____ immune system functioning when its levels remain high for a prolonged period of time.

Marisol is learning to control her heart rate and respiration while viewing visual displays of these processes. Marisol is using:

Ed is using progressive muscle relaxation, and Gene is using biofeedback. Briefly describe what Ed and Gene are doing and review the benefits that each might expect from his technique.

As compared to short-term stress, long-term stress has _____ effect on the number of NK cells.

Among the elderly, religious participation is negatively associated with depression.

Eustress is to distress as _____ is to _____.

At least one study has found a moderate association between stress and breast cancer.

The relationship between smoking cigarettes and improved mood is:

Meditation produces no observable changes in brain activity.

Health psychology took root in the 1980s.

Cortisol is secreted by the:

Problem-focused coping is to _____ as emotion-focused coping is to ______.

Insecure, negative, and anxious personality traits are characteristic of which personality style?

Stimulus is to response as _____ is to _____.

T lymphocytes mature in the:

The director of an assisted-living housing complex was puzzled by the following situation. When she let the residents choose their own dinner time, as well as what they wanted to eat, she realized there were far fewer health problems and deaths. To what might she attribute this?

The pioneering stress theorist _____ proposed the general adaptation syndrome to describe the body's response to stressors.

NK (natural killer) cells:

The textbook suggests that _____ proposed the distinction between stress and stressors.

The field of health psychology gained momentum in the: