Chapter 13 before class quiz

Most of Conrad's friends consider him to be highly neurotic. It is likely that, compared to his friends, Conrad is

more likely to perceive events as stressful

Mildred has to drive across town to help a friend who is experiencing a crisis. It is a time of day when traffic is light, so this should be a fairly simple task. Research into the link between arousal level and task performance suggests that under these circumstances...

a fairly high level or arousal should be optimal for this task

Clarice was in a meeting with several other employees when her boss started to criticize a proposal Clarice had put together for the marketing department. As he started into his critique, Clarice's heart rate and respiration increased, and she could feel her face and hands become flushed and red. According to Selye's general adaptation syndrome, Clarice was experiencing...

an alarm reaction

You've been invited to dinner at a nice restaurant on the final night of a TV mini series you've been watching and thus find yourself confronted with

an approach - approach conflict

LuAnn exhibits effective problem-focused coping and seeks the help of others when necessary. Her behavior is consistent with someone who is...

an optimist

When you tell yourself that you will never be happy again now that your significant other has ended the relationship, you are engaging in what Albert Ellis calls

catastrophic thinking

Your friend asks you for advice as to how he can improve his communication with his healthcare provider. Which of the following would you not offer him?

consult a healthcare provider who is not of your same sex

Virginia has wanted to be a physician for as long as she can remember, but she has been unable to gain entry to medical school. Virginia is probably experiencing

frustration

Suki routinely responds to stress with a learned helplessness response. Suki's response will involve

passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events

Luigi knows that the surgeon general has determined that smoking increases the risk of various types of cancers, but he is sure that he won't develop cancer. Luigi's pattern of behavior illustrates the idea that

people often underestimate the risks associated with their own health impairing behavior

Imagine you studied for this psychology exam with two of your classmates. If one classmate, Becky, was very nervous and "stressed out" about the exam, and the other classmate, Craig, thought the exam "wasn't a big deal," their differing attitudes are MOST consistent with the finding that

peoples appraisals of stressful events are highly subjective

The week of final exams subjects MOST students to what kind of stress?

pressure

When final exam time rolls around, Murray finds himself eating all the time. This reaction to stress can be referred to as

self-indulgence

Dionne is trapped in an elevator that is stuck between the third and fourth floors of an office building. As maintenance workers try to restart the elevator, it suddenly drops 10 feet before becoming stick once more. As the elevator drops, Dionne's sympathetic nervous system is activated. This nervous system activation will cause...

the adrenal medulla to begin to release large amounts of catecholamines

Allie has a chronic medical condition. She was advised to take a drug from a manufacturer that claims it reduces the risk of mortality from her condition by 25%. Before taking the drug, it is MOST important that Allie investigate

the base rate for mortality from her condition