Chapter 14: Stress, Lifestyle, and Health - Part 4

What is true about the relationship between stress and performance?

As stress levels increase from low to moderate, performance also increases

What should be changed to make this statement correct and true? In high-stress human, exercise has been shown to prevent telomere lengthening.

Change "lengthening" to "shortening"

What should be changed to make this statement correct and true? The physical symptoms of psychophysiological disorders are nonexistent, and they can be produced by psychological factors.

Change "nonexistent" to "real"

What should be changed to make this statement correct and true? Psychoneuroimmunology evolved from the discovery that there is a connection between the peripheral nervous system and the immune system.

Change "peripheral" to "central"

What should be changed to make this statement correct and true? It is well established that long (aerobic) but not short (anaerobic) duration of exercise is beneficial for both physical and mental health.

Change the phrase "but not" to the word "and"

What should be changed to make this statement correct and true? In the general adaptation syndrome, the fight-or-flight reaction describes the body's immediate reaction upon facing a threatening situation or emergency.

Change the phrase "fight-or-flight" to "alarm"

What does the research done on the 9/11 survivors show?

How stress is linked to the development and progression of a variety of physical illnesses and diseases.

What do studies show about the relationship between stress and memory?

Moderate stress can enhance both immediate and delayed recall of educational material

Researchers who studied people injured in the 9/11 attacks found that the injured later suffered from what?

Significantly elevated rates of heart disease.

Is anger suppression or anger expression a more effective approach for coping with racism?

Some research shows anger suppression is more effective while other research shows anger expression is more effective

How can a study that involves exposing people to live viruses demonstrate a link between stress and impaired immune function?

Stress weakens the immune system, so people with high stress levels should be more likely to get sick

Hans Selye's definition of stress is considered a response-based definition because it conceptualizes stress chiefly in term of what?

The body's physiological reaction to any demand that is placed on it

What would be a negative effect of extended cortisol release caused by chronic stress?

The immune system is weakened.

What is one reason that more affluent individuals may experience better health?

They tend to believe they can personally control and manage their reaction to life's stressors.

In Hans Selye's rat study, what happened to the rats that were exposed to stressors over long periods of time?

adrenal enlargement, thymus and lymph node shrinkage, and stomach ulceration.