Stress Mang. Test 1

In the Stress Model, after a life situation is perceived as stressful, the next step is:

Emotional arousal

Dietary factors that increase blood pressure include:

Excessive alcohol consumption

A person who scores high on the life-event scale should take a vacation to reduce his/her score.

False

According to Shelly Taylor, males respond to stress by using social groups to protect themselves.

False

An individual with a high BMI (Body Mass Index) is always considered obese.

False

Attempting to control stress will enable one to release stress.

False

A __________ is when a negative consequence of stress is perceived as stressful and starts the stress model all over again.

Feedback loop

What percentage of college students adhere to a monthly budget?

Fewer than 20%

The goal of stress management is to ______________.

Limit the harmful effects of stress

This type of love is a combination of passionate love and flirtatious playing without the intention of a long commitment.

Manic love

According to Epstein, source management refers to:

Reducing or eliminating the source of stress

Which of the following statements about osteoporosis is true?

Regular participation in physical activity is an important factor in achieving and maintaining optimal bone mass

What part of the Autonomic Nervous System is responsible for conserving energy?

The Parasympathetic Nervous System

The term "gray matter" refers to:

The cerebral cortex

Kanner and his colleagues believe that everyday hassles can be more detrimental to a person's health than one isolated major event.

True

Macrophages puncture the cellular membrane of foreign invading cells.

True

Managing stress is the exercise of controlling your perceptions, emotions, and actions.

True

Many states have passed laws declaring that an intoxicated person is not capable of consenting to sex

True

Migraine headaches usually erupt without warning.

True

What is the most commonly reported physical effect of stress?

headaches

This stress hormone is responsible for an increase in blood glucose.

Cortisol

The ___________ most frequently experienced by students include finances, relationships, and time pressures.

Daily hassles

Most students have had sexual intercourse prior to their first year in college.

False

One explanation of why stress produces ulcers is that norepinephrine causes the production in the stomach to shut down.

False

Prolonged stress has been shown to increase the efficiency of the hippocampus.

False

Stress that initially appears threatening but ultimately proves beneficial is called distress.

False

The body responds differently to eustress and distress.

False

The more skilled a person is at coping with stress, the more stress he or she can handle.

False

The most common cause of TMJ (temporomandibular joint) is bruxism or grinding teeth.

False

When faced with a loss, an individual inevitably experiences a physiological arousal followed by an emotional reaction.

False

Your first step in dealing with stress should be to develop a rigid plan.

False

Galvanic skin response is the increase of ___________ of the skin.

Electrical conductance

What was the average cost of 2010-2011 out-of-state tuition for a public four-year college?

About $27,000

The best approach to preventing sexual transmitted infections is:

Abstaining from sex

What are interventions?

Activities to prevent a stressor from resulting in negative consequences

Eustress is a term that describes...

All of the above

Minority college students often experience stress related to:

All of the above

One of the primary causes of coronary heart disease is:

All of the above

Stress has been found to increase the excretion of ___________.

All of the above

Stress is associated with psychosocial illnesses such as:

All of the above

Symptoms of Post-traumatic stress disorder include:

All of the above

The fight-or-flight response is the body's stress reaction that includes an increase in:

All of the above

The limbic system is responsible for:

All of the above

The purpose of the gastrointestinal system is:

All of the above

Which sexually transmitted infection has no cure?

All of the above

A comprehensive stress management program need to...

Teach multiple skills

Females tend to respond to stress with this type of reaction:

Tend and befriend

Nearly ___ of the population are hot reactors.

20%

What percent of students reported in 2011 that their academic performance was affected by stress?

25%

What percentage of college students have credit cards?

84%

Nearly ___ of hypertension has no known cause.

90%

What percentage of college women who are victims of rape knew their rapist?

90%

A "hate attack" is term referring to:

A heart attack related to chronic anger or anxiety

The definition of stress includes the combination of:

A stressor, stress reactivity, and strain

Success is best defined as:

A subjective and multifaceted way of looking at ourselves

Cognitive appraisal of a stressful situation:

Both A and B

A deficiency in B and C vitamins may result in...

Both B and C

The Hardiness Theory encourages people to view stressful events as a ____________.

Challenge

The most common talk therapy is:

Cognitive behavioral therapy

An example of a eustressor could be:

Getting a job promotion

___________ is the conversion of amino acids to glycogen

Gluconeogenesis

_______ are daily interactions with the environment that are essentially negative.

Hassles

Self-efficacy is...

Having the confidence in the ability to manage a certain situation

Cancer may be caused by diets...

High in red meat

People who experience all-out physiological reactions to stress are labeled ____________.

Hot reactors

Meditation places the body in a __________ state.

Hypometabolic

The Yerkes-Dodson curve shows that...

If you have a moderate level of stress, illness decreases and performance increases.

Holmes and Rahe found that the ____ significant life changes that a person experiences, the ____ the chance that he or she will contract some physical or psychological illness.

More; greater

Sympathomimetics...

None of the above

Which of the following therapies can cure an AIDS patient?

None of the above

The optimal amount of stress is:

Not too much and not too little

The most disturbing type of noise is

One that is constantly changing in pitch or frequency

The constant presence of the hormones _______ and _______ can cause diarrhea.

Oxytocin; vasopressin

Which of Epstein's four trainable stress management skill sets has been found to be most effective?

Prevention

What types of health risks accompany masturbation?

Psychological

Stress causes _______ to ________ in the circulatory system.

Serum cholesterol; increase

The type of love that is most likely to lead to a long-term partnership is:

Storgic love

A _________ can help you to identify consistent features in the stressors you regularly encounter.

Stress diary

The fight-or-flight response is also known as a ___________.

Stress reactivity

According to the Stress Theory Model, __________ interrupt the adverse effects of stress

Stress roadblocks

Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by:

Swelling of the synovial membrane that deteriorates cartilage

The __________ is activated when it encounters a stressor.

Sympathetic Nervous System

This level of blood cholesterol ought to be less than 200 mg/dL.

Total cholesterol level

A person's perception of potential stress can be just as destructive as stress itself.

True

A preoccupation with grades can cause a student's health to deteriorate.

True

By defining your own success you give yourself one more way to control a possible stressor.

True

Cancer can be an example of somatogenic psychosomatic disease.

True

College students are prone to chronic stress caused by developmental transitions.

True

Poor eating habits may increase your stress level.

True

Stress decreases both the quantity of saliva in the mouth and hydrochloric acid in the stomach.

True

Studies show that rapists are more interested in sex than in violence.

True

The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is now considered between mind and body.

True

The extent and degree to which you possess the seven components of health will determine how healthy you are.

True

You cannot control stress, but you can control your response to stressful situations.

True

The cerebral cortex is the ____ part of the brain responsible for _____.

Upper; thinking functions

Which of the following is a useful tip for managing credit cards and avoiding debt?

Use a debit card instead of a credit card

Hypercholesterolemia is a condition characterized by:

Very high levels of cholesterol in the blood

The most commonly reported cause of stress is:

money

The endocrine system is controlled by the

none of the above

This part of the subcortex is responsible for regulating sleep.

pons

Muscles attached to bone are known as _______ muscles.

skeletal