Personal and Community Health Chapters 3 & 4

Negative challenges create _______________________.

Distress

Positive challenges create ____________________.

Eustress

All stressful situations are harmful. True False

False

Because depressed people are unpleasant to be around, they should avoid social interaction until they feel better. True False

False

Bipolar disorder involves depressive symptoms that appear in autumn or winter and remit spontaneously in spring. True False

False

Changing in eating patterns is not a typical warning sign of stress. True False

False

Counselors are often no help in clarifying the source of emotional distress and finding healthy ways of coping with it. True False

False

Depression is always an abnormal psychological response. True False

False

Depression only occurs in the United States. True False

False

Establishing a regular sleep time does not help a person get a good night's sleep. True False

False

Eustress is stress resulting from unpleasant stressors. True False

False

Fight-or-flight response occurs in a human body when a person responds to stress with laughter. True False

False

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) is a six-phase biological response to stress. True False

False

Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by persistent and unwelcome thoughts or images, often accompanied by an uncontrollable, urgent need to engage in certain rituals. True False

False

If you have a recurring stressful thought, you should focus on the thought without any effort to replace it with a positive thought. True False

False

Increased blood pressure and increased heart rate are not considered to be physiological components of stress. True False

False

Insomnia is characterized as having trouble falling asleep or staying awake. True False

False

It is best to tell a person who is suicidal that life will get better and then move on to other topics. True False

False

Knowing when a stressful situation will arise produces the same amount of stress as not knowing. True False

False

Over a million people commit suicide in the United States each year. True False

False

Projection is defined as keeping distressing thoughts and feelings unconscious. True False

False

Seasonal affective disorders usually occur in the spring. True False

False

Someone who is depressed always recognizes it in himself or herself. True False

False

Up to 85% of Americans experience an episode of major depression. True False

False

Visualization has no effect in reducing exam anxiety. True False

False

A common defense mechanism is denial, or not believing in the truth. True False

True

A phobia is an intense, irrational fear that can seriously disrupt a person's life. True False

True

Anger may occur when we feel attacked, blamed, hurt, or have experienced a loss. True False

True

Anxiety is the response to an imaginary or future situation that is interpreted as threatening. True False

True

Cognition includes the following mental processes: perception, learning, and reasoning and problem solving. True False

True

Depression can occur as a normal response to the loss of something or someone a person values. True False

True

Displacement describes a situation when you are angry at your parents but you yell at your girlfriend or boyfriend. True False

True

Eustress is the stress that comes from positive challenges. True False

True

Overconsumption of alcohol to decrease stressful feelings is common among college students in the United States. True False

True

People who are depressed often engage in negative self-talk. True False

True

People who believe that they have control over their lives are likely to experience less stress than people who believe that powers outside their control are determining their fate. True False

True

Physical activity can help a depressed person feel better. True False

True

Strategies for action involve your ability to generate plans for attaining your goals as well as your attitudes about your ability to carry out those plans. True False

True

Stress may motivate unhealthy behaviors as a person attempts to deal with stress. True False

True

Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people ages 15 to 24 years old. True False

True

The fight-or-flight response involves the coordinated activation of the autonomic nervous system and the release of adrenaline from the adrenal glands. True False

True

The lack of sunlight during the winter months can disturb the neurotransmitter systems that affect mood, which can cause people to feel depressed. True False

True

The main hormone secreted during the fight-or-flight response is epinephrine. True False

True

The phases of GAS are the stages of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. True False

True

The thought that one is in a stressful situation causes the part of the brain called the hypothalamus to secrete a hormone. True False

True

Threat situations are perceived or interpreted as potentially causing harm or loss. True False

True

Unresolved anger and hostility are risk factors for heart disease. True False

True