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Question 81

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A review by House and his colleagues of studies conducted with almost 37,000 people living in the U.S.,Finland,and Sweden found that people were twice as likely to die during the study if they had low levels of ______________.

A) personal coping skills
B) pessimism
C) social support
D) optimism

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Question 82

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Many stress management techniques work to reduce our general responses to stressors by working to modify ________.

A) sleep habits
B) emotional arousal
C) dietary intake
D) cognitive appraisal

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Question 83

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In terms of susceptibility to stressful events,social support is a _________________.

While physiological toughness is demonstrated by a particular pattern of activity in two classes of hormones at the time of the stressor,it is also associated with:

______________ exercise involves any activity that increases the heart rate and the body's need for oxygen.

A cognitive restructuring approach that can be used to manage stress at all stages of the coping process is called:

The physiological toughness endocrine pattern includes two key classes of hormones,catecholamines and corticosteroids.In a person who is physiologically tough,the pattern of response for these two hormones shows:

There is a distinct physiological pattern that emerges when people are exposed to strong and prolonged stress.Selye labelled this response pattern the:

An implication of Prochaska and DiClemente's transtheoretical model is that:

The final stage of Selye's general adaptation syndrome (GAS) is:

Socialization patterns within a culture tend to dictate coping strategy preferences evidenced in that:

Aerobic exercise was specifically mentioned as one of the behaviours that can decrease negative health risks of:

Alicia is anew student at a particular school.On her first day,she does not talk to any of the other students and sees them making fun of her behind her back.Alicia decides she can either develop a strategy for making friends or she can take the other students at face value and accept that they are jealous of her and ignore them.In this case,Alicia has control of which coping technique she will use and she is better off choosing:

Stress researchers typically refer to the daily hassles that most people encounter,such as being stuck in traffic or having their computer crash,as:

The personality characteristic of _____________ was offered as a potential third variable that might cause both negative life events and psychological distress and thus would explain why the latter two variables are often correlated.

Failing to have regular medical checkups and eating a diet that is high in fat are both considered examples of health-compromising behaviours.

Ivan had an emergency appendectomy performed last night.When he woke up this morning he was surprised to learn that he had control over the amount of pain medication he received because all he had to do was push a button and morphine was added to his intravenous fluids.The more often he pushed the button,the more pain medication he was receiving.Ivan acted like an average patient in that when compared to other patients receiving the dosages from hospital staff,he actually ended up administering ________medication.

A multimodal treatment approach to substance abuse may include such interventions as marital and family counselling.

The three core beliefs that underlie the personality construct of hardiness are optimism,self-efficacy,and control.

An awareness that a particular behaviour is problematic is one of the key factors that differentiates the ____________________ stages of change.