Exam 4: Understanding Stress

Adrenaline is to cortisol as ______ is to ______.

Stress may impair the production of disease-fighting white blood cells called ______.

T cell is to B cell as ______ is to ______.

Which correlation coefficient might a researcher find between cortisol levels and scores on a measure of working memory capacity?

Abdul has just discovered his term paper is due tomorrow when he thought it was due next week. According to Hans Selye, Abdul will MOST likely experience the ______ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

Define psychoneuroimmunology. Explain how this field reflects the biopsychosocial rather than the biomedical model of health. Making explicit reference to the model of stress and disease developed in the text, suggest at least two ways that psychoneuroimmunologists could pay increased research attention to the social component of the biopsychosocial model of health.

The familiar heart rate and blood pressure measures that open every doctor visit are assessments of the health of the ______ system.

According to research cited in the text (Ptacek, Smith, & Zanas, 1992), relationships account for one-______ of the stressful events that college students experience.

Only negative events cause stress.

Stressor is to stress as stimulus is to response.

Sigmund Freud famously said that "love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness." How does contemporary research on the sources of stress lend credence to Freud' statement?

Which statement does NOT accurately state a limitation of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS)?

Depression increases the risk of a heart attack as much as obesity does.

The amount of time that doctors and nurses spend providing direct patient care is ______ correlated with the level of stress that they experience.

______ is NOT an effect of sympathetic nervous system activity.