Exam 16: Applying Social Psychology to Health

Early definitions of stress tended to focus on ____ factors.

The tend-and-befriend response is a more ____ stress response for females than the basic fight-or-flight response.

When we believe the event will be extremely demanding and will put us at risk for damage, we make a(n) ____ appraisal.

The three broad segments of health psychology are _____.

The general adaptation syndrome, discussed in the text, is a model for understanding ____.

In health psychology, a(n) ____ can be defined as any program or message providing information or structure to change a behavior.

The definition of health, as given in the text's Application Module on Health, includes ____.

The Student Stress Scale assesses a person's stress level by ____.

Your text describes a study in which researchers recruited single, sexually active student volunteers to take part in a campaign (actually the experimental manipulation) supposedly designed to get other students who were just becoming sexually active to practice safe sex. The volunteers were asked to develop a persuasive speech about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and safer sex that was then videotaped. Researchers found that the students who made the taped speeches were more likely to use condoms, a finding that is consistent with ____.

Research has found that one of the strongest, most consistent psychological differences between males and females is with respect to ____.

Amira notices a lump in her breast, but convinces herself that it was always there. As she continues to examine her breasts monthly, the lump remains and seems larger, but each time Amira finds a way to explain it away--the lump is just a result of the uncomfortable bra she was wearing, the lump is connected to her menstrual cycle, and so forth. In fact, she never has the lump investigated because she interprets the lump in terms of her belief that she is "healthy." Amira has succumbed to which social psychological error in thinking?

Maria opposes mandatory vaccination of children and often cites "evidence" of the harm caused by vaccines while apparently ignoring their safety and efficacy in the vast majority of instances. This is consistent with _____.

How does stress relate to homeostasis?

People who experience ____ show a disease-prone personality.

The health belief model discussed in the text proposes that ____.

Research has shown that the more instances of smoking adolescents view in movies, the more likely they are to smoke. This is believed to be a result of ____.

Which of the following statements best summarizes the cognitive appraisal model of stress developed by Lazarus?

According to the general adaptation syndrome, long-term stressors ____.

Edward has a really difficult co-worker. They are constantly in conflict over how to use the limited resources in the office. Edward offers to take the co-worker out to lunch and over lunch, they discuss how they can manage their respective needs for the office resources with less conflict. Edward has used ____ coping.

Which of the following is most directly concerned with the stages that people go through-and the themes present at each stage-when they are trying to change a specific behavior?