Exam 18: Stress, Coping, Adjustment, and Health

The fact that most people underestimate their risk for negative events is known as

Selye described repeated stressors as leading to

Concerns about weight, crime, and taxes are examples of

Pennebaker has suggested that keeping negative events secret

_____ tend to greatly underestimate the chances that negative events will happen to them.

The reaction to being startled and the increases in blood pressure and other physiological responses is known as

Stress is thought to have the greatest influence on the _____ system.

It is thought that in the United States, lifestyle contributes to more than _____ percent of premature deaths.

_____ are diagrams of variables and the causal relationships between them.

Which model sees no direct relationship between personality and health, but instead attributes correlations between the two to a third variable?

Telling others about private aspects of ourselves is known as

The finding that extraverts are more likely to smoke is most consistent with the

A large study by Peterson et al.found that optimists and pessimists differed in the number of deaths due to

Which of the following components of Type A behavior pattern is most lethal?

Researchers in the field of _____ focus on the link between the mind and body.