Exam 10: Stress, Health, and Coping: Dealing With Life

Adelaida hears a rattling sound as she hikes through the desert. Her muscles tense and her blood pressure rises. According to Hans Selye, she is in the___________.

Which external factors might increase the likelihood of aggression according to your textbook?

Medical psychology focuses on the promotion of health and prevention and treatment of illness as it relates to psychological factors.

Morphine and heroin duplicate the action of ____________.

As Olina started her job, her supervisors kept her work load low. As she progressed on the job, they increased her load. With each increase came an added level of stress, but Olina learned to handle it. As the number and intensity of stressors increased, Olina adjusted her ________.

The deepest stage of sleep is ________ sleep.

Alcoholic individuals come from ________ socioeconomic classes and tend to be ________.

Nancy firmly believes that she got cancer because her life has always been full of stress. Is she correct? Why or why not?

Stress has been shown to put people at a higher risk for________.

Saadat is walking to the front of the classroom in preparation for his class presentation. He notices his heart is starting to beat fast, his palms are sweaty, and he has a general sense of increase in energy. According to the general adaptation syndrome, which phase of the stress response is he in?

Which of the following is an example of an emotion-focused coping strategy?

Trying not to think about something emotionally arousing is known as ________.

The activation-synthesis hypothesis states that ________.

The suprachiasmatic nucleus is found in the ________.

Snoring may be a symptom of ________.

A name for one type of T cell is ________.

Sleep research supports three helpful hints to avoid insomnia. Which of the following statements is one of them?

Sabina hates going food shopping. When she goes, she finds that her heart starts beating and her breathing is labored. In contrast her husband, Dacian, finds food shopping relaxing. This situation emphasizes ________.

Freud's psychoanalytic theory of dreaming states that __________________.

If, while you're falling asleep, you experience a falling sensation and a hypnic jerk, then you're in the second stage of sleep.