Module 39: Stress & Illness

Macrophages are cells that:

identify, pursue, and attack harmful invaders in the body.

Type A personality is to Type B personality as _____ is to _____.

irritable; calm

Which of these is more likely to increase the likelihood of a heart attack victim having another attack?

major depression

A stress reaction is a:

physical or emotional response.

Personal milestones such as getting married, getting divorced, or having a child go off to college are examples of:

significant life changes.

Mandisa is under an extreme amount of stress. She is battling with her ex-husband about money and their children. In this time of stress, Mandisa turns to her friends for support and spends as much time with her children as possible. Taylor and colleagues would say that Mandisa is demonstrating a _____ response to stress.

tend-or-befriend

Sandy is a human resources director for a chain of fast-food restaurants. When interviewing perspective employees, Sandy is known to finish their sentences and to be very short with them if they do not quickly finish a sentence. According to Friedman, Rosenman, and colleagues, Sandy is a Type _____ personality.

A

After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, many people from around the country went to New York City to lend aid. This response to stress is an example of:

a tend-and-befriend response.

Which statement about stress is true?

Stress depends to a large extent on how events are interpreted.

Jane and Sue leave a building and see a dog running toward them. Jane assumes that the dog wants to play. Sue assumes the dog is going to attack. It is MOST likely that:

Sue's stress reaction will be more negative than Jane's.

_____ attack cancer cells, viruses, and other foreign substances.

T lymphocytes

Alan reluctantly decided to take a long-awaited trip to New Zealand. The thing that is most disturbing to him is that he must leave his pet monkey behind. There is a "pet hotel" in the city that has agreed to take him. Should Alan worry about him?

Yes. Monkeys under stress due to social disruptions have weakened immune systems.

The interdisciplinary field of _____ integrates behavioral and medical knowledge, and applies this knowledge to health and disease.

behavioral medicine

A health psychologist would be MOST likely to conduct research assessing the relationship between:

cancer and stress.

Earthquakes, floods, and wildfires are examples of _____.

catastrophes.

Marcus is going through a particularly difficult time because of work-related stress, his parents' health problems, impending final exams, and term paper deadlines. Marcus has a history of not dealing well with stress. The continuous stress is likely to cause all of these EXCEPT:

cause Marcus to develop cancer.