Exam 11: Emotion, Stress, and Health

What are the three best things that you can do to prolong your life?

Match the examples with the type of thinking it exemplifies. -"I may have had damage to my car from the hurricane, but other people lost their homes."

When individuals were exposed to the flu virus, those with the most friends were the least likely to get sick.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three major components of emotion?

Charles Darwin takes the position that emotions:

Vanna is finding out what her financial resources are after an advertiser decides not to renew her modelling contract. This is an example of:

There are some tragedies that appear out of the blue and can't be solved. But even if a problem cannot be fixed, the authors provide four ways that have proven effective in helping people thrive as the result of a crisis. Name and examine each of these effective cognitive coping methods.

What are the effects of unemployment on a person's health?

Miles is constantly angry because other cars follow too closely or cut him off when he drives. He interprets these manoeuvres as personal insults. What suggestions may help Miles drive more calmly?

People with a Type A personality are patient and optimistic.

Thornton drops his glasses on the sidewalk and they shatter. Which of the following would be a response that shows reappraisal?

There is little support for Darwin's evolutionary explanation that certain human facial expressions are "wired in."

When a person is asked to contort his facial muscles into patterns associated with anger, then he is likely to feel negative feelings.

Dahlia has been having chronic headaches and she is behind in all her classes. For the past six months her job has been extremely stressful, but she doesn't feel that she can quit because she needs the money for tuition. Her vulnerability to illness, such as chronic hypertension, has increased. According to Hans Selye, Dahlia is in the:

After a Japanese-Canadian business session, the most likely complaint by the Canadians would be that the Japanese smile too much in order to disguise their embarrassment.

An internal locus of control emerges early in life.

Studies of the cognitive element in emotion suggest all of the following EXCEPT:

Primary control is a "fighting back" philosophy.

Optimists are more likely than pessimists to be active problem solvers and to seek information that can help them.

Although it is a relatively small structure in the brain, the ________ plays a key role in emotion in that it is responsible for making initial decisions about whether to ________.