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
